Steeplechase Films Explained
| Steeplechase Films |
| Foundation: | 1989 |
| Location: | New York, NY |
| Key People: | Ric Burns |
| Industry: | documentary films |
| Homepage: | www.ricburns.com |
Steeplechase Films is a documentary production company founded in 1989 by filmmaker Ric Burns. They produce films focusing on events and people in American history, mainly for the PBS series American Experience. Ric and his company are best known for the eight-part, seventeen-and-a-half-hour series, New York: A Documentary Film, which premiered nationally on PBS to wide public and critical acclaim when broadcast in three installments in November 1999, September 2001, and September 2003.[1]
Filmography
- Coney Island (1991)
- The Donner Party (1992)
- The Way West (1995)
- (2002)
- (1999)
- —The Center of the World (2003)
- Eugene O'Neill: A Documentary Film (2006)
- (2006)
- (2010)
- Death and the Civil War (2012)
- (2014)
- (2015)
- The Pilgrims (2015)
- (2015)
- (2017)
- The Chinese Exclusion Act (2018)
- (2019)
- (2019)
- (2024)
List of awards and nominations
- 31st News & Documentary Emmy Awards (2010) - Outstanding Nonfiction Series (nominated) [2] for Into the Deep: America, Whaling & The World
- 27th News & Documentary Emmy Awards (2006) - Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming (won) [3] for
- 27th News & Documentary Emmy Awards (2006) - Outstanding Nonfiction Series (nominated) [3] for under the American Masters series.
- 27th News & Documentary Emmy Awards (2006) - Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Writing (won) [3] for Eugene O'Neill
- Peabody Award (2006) - (won) [4] for
External links
Notes and References
- https://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/28/movies/tv-weekend-viewing-new-york-s-past-but-seeing-the-present.html?ref=ricburns "TV WEEKEND; Viewing New York's Past But Seeing the Present"
- http://www.emmyonline.tv/mediacenter/_pdf/news_31st_nominees_v10.pdf "Nominees for the 31st Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards"
- http://www.emmyonline.org/mediacenter/mediacenter_archive.html "Nominees for the 27th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards"
- http://www.peabody.uga.edu/winners/PeabodyWinnersBook.pdf "GEORGE FOSTER PEABODY AWARD WINNERS"
