ABSTRACT
Ric Burns Over the past two decades, Ric Burns and his company, Steeplechase Films, have produced numerous award-winning films and series, many for the PBS series American Experience. His credits include the six-part series The Way West; films on Coney Island, The Donner Party, Ansel Adams, Eugene O’Neill, and Andy Warhol; and Tecumseh’s Vision, directed with Chris Eyre for the 2009 PBS series We Shall Remain. Most recently, he completed Into the Deep: America, Whaling & the World, which is described as “the extraordinary story of the American whaling industry from its 17th century origins through the golden age of deep ocean whaling in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and on to the industry’s decline in the decades following the American Civil War.” The film premiered on American Experience in May 2010. Before founding Steeplechase, Ric and his brother Ken produced the nine-part PBS series The Civil War, which premiered in 1990.
