6.4/10

Director: Ken Burns

Starring: Louis Armstrong, Dave Brubeck, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Bil...

Inspired by blues and ragtime, it made its way up the Mississippi and spread across America, evolving along the way into a variety of forms. Filmmaker... Read more

8.4/10

Director: Ken Burns

Nearly three years in the making and drawing from 63 hours of material, thousands of archival photographs and nearly 20 interviews with top writers an... Read more

9.1/10

Director: Ken Burns

Starring: Narrated by, David McCullough

Director Ken Burns' ('Jazz', 'Frank Lloyd Wright') most acclaimed documentary series is a comprehensive chronicle of the American Civil War. Over elev... Read more

8.6/10

Director: Ken Burns

Starring: Narrated by, Peter Coyote

The American national parks sprung from a radical idea that the most precious portions of the land should be preserved, not for royalty or the rich, b... Read more

8.2/10

Director: Ken Burns

Starring: Narrated by, Peter Coyote

"The Dust Bowl" chronicles the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history, when a frenzied wheat boom on the Southern Plains, followed by... Read more

8.3/10

Director: Ken Burns

Starring: Muhammad Ali, Adam Arkin, Philip Bosco, Keith David, Jack Johnson, Samuel L Jack...

Award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns employs his inimitable laid back style to explore the life of flambloyant heavyweight boxer, Jack Johnson. Born to... Read more

7.7/10

Director: Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon

In 1989, five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem were arrested and later convicted of raping a white woman in New York City's Central Park. They s... Read more

9.1/10

Director: Ken Burns, Lynn Novick

Ken Burns presents a fourteen-part documentary on World War Two, focusing on the impact it had on the people involved - the soldiers and the families... Read more

7.8/10

Director: Ken Burns, Lynn Novick

Starring: Frank Lloyd Wright

An absorbing study of U.S. architect Frank Lloyd Wright's tumultuous life and career. Using all manner of original photographs, plans, home movies of... Read more