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He has written, directed and produced historical documentaries since the 1990s, beginning with his collaboration on the celebrated PBS series The Civil War (1990), which he produced with his older brother Ken Burns and wrote with Geoffrey Ward.
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Ric was in university when Ken asked him to come join him in the making of The Civil War in 1985. He did, and they have never worked together since. On the heels of that experience Ric knew that filmmaking was his path as well.
As of 2017, Burns was residing in Walpole, New Hampshire. He and Julie Deborah Brown, daughter of Leslie Mundjer and the Smith Barney senior vice president Richard Brown and stepdaughter of Ellen Brown, married on October 18, 2003.
Apr 23, 1995 · TALK story about documentary filmmaker Ric Burns, the brother of documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, and Ric's new four-part documentary "The Way West." Ric showed Ken just twenty...
- Warren St. John
When the family returned to the United States, Ken’s younger brother by 18 months, Eric (known as Ric), was born and Burns’s father took a job teaching at the University of Delaware.
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Ric Burns was the son of a social anthropologist. He studied English literature at Columbia University in New York City and Cambridge University in England before working with his brother, Ken Burns, on The Civil War (1990).