#386: Ken Burns — A Master Filmmaker on Creative Process, the Long Game, and the Noumenal

“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 nominated  Brooklyn Bridge  in 1981, Ken has gone on to direct and produce some of the most acclaimed historical documentaries ever made, including  The 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 , and  The Mayo Clinic: Faith — Hope — Science .Ken’s films have been honored with dozens of ma