Ken Burns, American Filmmaker

Latest Work
Although Burns' latest work, The National Parks: America's Best Idea, features impressive footage from many of America's parks, it is really a story of the people associated with the parks, like John Muir, a deeply religious mountain prophet who, in the words of the PBS release promoting the film, "found inspiration in Yosemite and then inspired generations of parks enthusiasts," and more recent devotees like "Tuan Luong, a Paris-born Vietnamese rock climber and photographer who fell in love with the parks and dedicated himself to photographing all 58 national parks with a large format camera."