I will have a Dialog with him, here is the beginning of its relatively terrific Wikipedia entry:

Kenneth Lauren Burns ^{(born July 29, 1953) is an American filmmaker identified for his documentary movies and tv sequence, a lot of which relate American the story and Tradition. His work is usually produced in affiliation with WETA TV and/or the Nationwide Basis for the Humanities and distributed by PBS.}

His broadly identified documentary sequence consists of Civil battle (1990), Baseball (1994), Jazz (2001), The battle (2007), Nationwide Parks: America’s Finest Concept (2009), Prohibition (2011), The Roosevelts (2014), Vietnam Conflict (2017), and Nation music (2019). He was additionally govt producer of each west (1996), and Most cancers: the emperor of all ailments (2015). ^{Burns’ documentaries gained two Academy Award nominations (for 1981 the brooklyn bridge and 1985 Statue of Liberty) and gained a number of Emmy Awardsamongst different distinctions.}

His subsequent e-book is the charming Our America: A Photographic Historical past. So what ought to I ask?