Telling America’s Stories: The Next Decade and Beyond (Florentine Films 2008–2017)
This project represents the fourth year of annual funding under a 10-year agreement (from 2008 through 2017) for Ken Burns to develop and produce programming about America’s stories. Each year’s grant is for $2 million and is tied to specific projects such as Baseball: The Tenth Inning, Prohibition, Vietnam, the Dust Bowl, the Age of the Roosevelts, Martin Luther King Jr., the American buffalo, Hemingway, the Central Park Five and America: A Family Story (tracing 200 years of American history by following generations of a single family or several families). Separate agreements are entered into for each project.