Steeplechase Films

Steeplechase Films
Industry	documentary films
Founded	1989
Headquarters	New York, NY
Key people	Ric Burns
Website	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)
(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)
(2014)
(2015)
(2015)
(2015)
(2017)
(2018)
(2019)
Oliver Sacks: His Own Life (2019)

List of awards and nominations[]

31st News & Documentary Emmy Awards (2010) - Outstanding Nonfiction Series (nominated) ^[2] for Into the Deep: America, Whaling & The World
(2006) - Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming (won) ^[3] for Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film
(2006) - Outstanding Nonfiction Series (nominated) ^[3] for Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film under the American Masters series.
(2006) - Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Writing (won) ^[3] for Eugene O'Neill
Peabody Award (2006) - (won) ^[4] for Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film

References[]

^ "TV WEEKEND; Viewing New York's Past But Seeing the Present". Retrieved 10 March 2011.
^ "Nominees for the 31st Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards" Archived 2011-07-26 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 9 March 2011.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Nominees for the 27th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards" Archived 2007-06-15 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 9 March 2011.
^ "GEORGE FOSTER PEABODY AWARD WINNERS" Archived 2011-07-26 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 9 March 2011.

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[New_York_Times-1] "TV WEEKEND; Viewing New York's Past But Seeing the Present". Retrieved 10 March 2011.

[emmys2010-2] "Nominees for the 31st Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards" Archived 2011-07-26 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 9 March 2011.

[emmys2006-3] "Nominees for the 27th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards" Archived 2007-06-15 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 9 March 2011.

[peabody_award-4] "GEORGE FOSTER PEABODY AWARD WINNERS" Archived 2011-07-26 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 9 March 2011.

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