Documentary Storytelling, 3rd Edition

CHAPTER 17

Ric Burns

Over the past two decades, Ric Burns and his company, Steeplechase Films, have produced numerous award-winning films and series, many for the PBS series American Experience. His credits include the six-part series The Way West; films on Coney Island, The Donner Party, Ansel Adams, Eugene O'Neill, and Andy Warhol; and Tecumseh's Vision, directed with Chris Eyre for the 2009 PBS series We Shall Remain. Most recently, he completed Into the Deep: America, Whaling & the World, which is described as “the extraordinary story of the American whaling industry from its 17th century origins through the golden age of deep ocean whaling in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and on to the industry's decline in the decades following ...