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Ken Burns’s Best Work Ever

by | Aug 11, 2009 | Western Movies

His documentary of America’s national parks far surpasses Burns’s earlier, famous film work.
Ken Burns is more than a chronicler of American history and culture. As early as 1981, when Burns presented his film on the history of the Brooklyn Bridge, he began developing a reputation as a significant figure in the world of documentaries. He followed up with features on Huey Long (1985), the Statue of Liberty (1985) and Con


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