Ric Burns

Ric Burns (CC '78) is a documentary filmmaker, perhaps best known for the seven-part, 13-hour public television program New York: A Documentary Film, which he directed, co-produced, and co-wrote. Burns is a winner of the John Jay Award for distinguished professional achievement and studied English Literature at Columbia and Cambridge before working with his brother, Ken, on the television mini-series The Civil War (1990).

His production company, Steeplechase Films, is located on the Upper West Side.