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Industry
  
documentary films

Website
  
www.ricburns.com

Key people
  
Ric Burns

Founder
  
Ric Burns

Headquarters
  
New York City, New York, United States

Founded
  
1989, New York City, New York, United States

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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.

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Filmography

  • Coney Island (1991)
  • The Donner Party (1992)
  • The Way West (1995)
  • Ansel Adams: A Documentary Film (2002)
  • New York: A Documentary Film (1999)
  • New York: A Documentary Film—The Center of the World (2003)
  • Eugene O'Neill: A Documentary Film (2006)
  • Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film (2006)
  • Into the Deep: America, Whaling & the World (2010)
  • Death and the Civil War(2012)
  • List of awards and nominations

  • 31st News & Documentary Emmy Awards (2010) - Outstanding Nonfiction Series (nominated) for Into the Deep: America, Whaling & The World
  • 27th News & Documentary Emmy Awards (2006) - Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming (won) for Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film
  • 27th News & Documentary Emmy Awards (2006) - Outstanding Nonfiction Series (nominated) for Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film under the American Masters series.
  • 27th News & Documentary Emmy Awards (2006) - Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Writing (won) for Eugene O'Neill
  • Peabody Award (2006) - (won) for Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film
  • References

    Steeplechase Films Wikipedia