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The Mayo Clinic: Faith - Hope - Science. The Mayo Clinic: Faith - Hope - Science might be Ken Burns' most personal film. After he was a patient at the famed hospital, Burns began digging into its ...
The film is narrated by Edward Herrmann, who was himself suffering from terminal brain cancer at the time of its production. He died on December 31, 2014, three months before the film's release, making the series his final performance. [5]
Burns was born on July 29, 1953, [1] in Brooklyn, New York, to Lyla Smith (née Tupper) Burns, [3] a biotechnician, [4] and Robert Kyle Burns Jr., at the time a graduate student in cultural anthropology at Columbia University in Manhattan. [3] The documentary filmmaker Ric Burns is his younger brother. [5] [6] Burns's academic family moved ...
The War is a seven-part American television documentary miniseries about World War II from the perspective of the United States.The program was directed by American filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, written by Geoffrey Ward, and narrated primarily by Keith David. [1]
Among her more recent collaborations with Burns have been The War (2007), Baseball: The Tenth Inning (2010), and Prohibition (2011). [3] Her next collaboration was an 18-hour documentary film series, The Vietnam War, with Burns and Geoffrey Ward, which aired in September 2017. [4] In 2019, her four-part series College Behind Bars, was broadcast ...
The film's narrator, Peter Coyote, would later narrate ten more documentary films directed or produced by Burns, including The National Parks: America's Best Idea (2009), Prohibition (2011), The Roosevelts: An Intimate History (2014), The Vietnam War (2017), The Mayo Clinic: Faith--Hope--Science (2018), and Country Music (2019).
Modesto’s Congregation Beth Shalom will host a panel discussion on the Ken Burns documentary series “The US and the Holocaust.” The discussion is open to the public and set for Sunday, Oct. 30.
Actor Dennis Quaid, the narrator of the film, shares the story of how his 12-day-old twins both almost died from multiple overdoses of heparin, a blood thinning medication. This led Quaid to become a patient safety advocate, author of medical papers, [2] and teaming up with the producers of Chasing Zero to create the documentary.