“There’s always the certainty that the opposite of what I might believe in might also be true.” — Ken Burns Ken Burns(@KenBurns) has been making documentary films for more than 40 years. Since the Academy Award nominatedBrooklyn Bridgein 1981, Ken has gone on to direct and producesome of the most acclaimed historical documentaries ever made, includingThe Civil War;Baseball;Jazz;The Statue of Liberty;Huey Long;Lewis & Clark;Frank Lloyd Wright;Mark Twain;Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson;The War;The National Parks: America’s Best Idea;The Roosevelts;Jackie Robinson;Defying the Nazis: The Sharps’ War;The Vietnam War, andThe Mayo Clinic: Faith — Hope — Science. Ken’s films have been honored with dozens of major awards, including sixteen Emmy Awards, two Grammy Awards, and two Oscar nominations; and in September of 2008, at the News & Documentary Emmy Awards, Ken was honored by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences with a Lifetime Achievement Award. H...