Ken Burns

 Ken Burns is an American producer and director who has an estimated net worth of $3.5 million. American filmmaker Ken Burns is well-known for his documentaries and documentaries series on historical subjects. The most well-known of his works are "The Civil War,"" Jazz," Prohibition," The Roosevelts," and the "Vietnam War." Burns films have been noted for its utilization of archive footage as well as slow zooms in and out of images, a technique dubbed the "Ken Burns effect. "Burns is also the recipient of more than 20 honorary degrees. The film "The Civil War" received more than 40 major awards for television and film, including two Emmy Awards, two Grammy Awards, Producer of the Year Award from the Producers Guild of America, and a People's Choice Award, a Peabody Award, a duPont-Columbia Award as well as an D. W. Griffith Award and the $50,000 Lincoln Prize. The documentary he made in 2017 "The Vietnam War" was also lauded.There is an Ken Burns Wing at the Jerome Liebling Center for Film, Photography and Video at Hampshire College.