Ken Burns

 American director and producer Ken Burns has a net worth $3.5 million. American filmmaker Ken Burns is well-known for his documentaries and documentaries series on historical subjects. His most famous works include "The Civil War,"" Jazz," Prohibition," The Roosevelts," and the "Vietnam War." Burns his filmmaking style has been praised for his use of archive footage and slow zooms in and out of photographs, a technique dubbed"the "Ken Burns effect. Burns has been honored with more than 20 honorary degrees. The film "The Civil War" has won more than 40 important film and television awards, including two Emmy Awards, two Grammy Awards, Producer of the Year Award from the Producers Guild of America, a People's Choice Award, a Peabody Award, a duPont-Columbia Award, the D. W. Griffith Award as well as the $50,000 Lincoln Prize. His documentary from 2017 "The Vietnam War" was equally lauded.There is the Ken Burns Wing at the Jerome Liebling Center for Film, Photography and Video at Hampshire College.