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Geoffrey C. Ward

Geoffrey C. Ward

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Born November 30, 1940 in Newark, Ohio

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Geoffrey C. Ward is an author, editor, historian and writer of scripts for American History Documentaries for Public Television. He is the author or co-author of 18 books. Five books are companion books to documentary films that he has written. He has won seven Emmy Awards. The principal writer of the television mini-series The Civil War (1990,) Ward has collaborated with its co-producer Ken Burns on many of the documentaries he has made since, including Jazz, Baseball, The War and Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. This work has garnered him five Emmy Awards. He also won two Emmys for the American Experience series, including The Kennedys, in 1992 and TR,The Story of Theodore Roosevelt in 1996. His script for the documentary Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, won the Writers Guild of America Award in 2005[3] and the accompanying book won the 2006 William Hill Sports Book of the Year and the Anisfield-Wolf Award for best biography. In 2006, the Organization of American Historians gave Ward their Friend of History Award for his outstanding contributions to American history:

"Over the last twenty years Geoffrey Ward's writings on American History have had a greater influence and reached a wider audience than those of any other American writer and historian. [His] work is always his own, but he has also helped free ideas that otherwise might have been imprisoned in the academy and helped them find a wider world. He has helped academic historians understand the possibilities, limits, and demands of what has become the medium through which most Americans now get their history." The most recent Burns/Ward collaboration, Prohibition (2011), brought Ward his seventh Emmy for Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming. He is currently at work on a multi-part series "Vietnam", with Lynn Novick and Ken Burns. He is the principle writer or co-writer of 24 documentary films. Ward is married to the writer and social/environmental activist Diane Raines Ward. He has three children.

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Filmography

Actor

5

Type

Year

Ken Burns: America's Storyteller Poster

Ken Burns: America's Storyteller Documentary2017Self - Writer

The Roosevelts: An Intimate History Poster

The Roosevelts: An Intimate History Mini-Series2014Self - Biographer

FDR: A Presidency Revealed Poster

FDR: A Presidency Revealed Documentary2005Self

Charlie Rose Poster

Charlie Rose TV Series1991Self - Guest

American Experience Poster

American Experience Mini-Series1988Self

Writer

27

Type

Year

The American Revolution Poster

The American Revolution TV Series2025

The U.S. and the Holocaust A Film by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick & Sarah Botstein Poster

The U.S. and the Holocaust A Film by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick & Sarah Botstein Mini-Series2022

Hemingway Poster

Hemingway Mini-Series2021

Ken Burns Presents: The Gene Poster

Ken Burns Presents: The Gene TV Series2020

The Vietnam War Poster

The Vietnam War Mini-Series2017

Vietnam Mini-Series2017

Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies Poster

Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies Mini-Series2015

The Roosevelts: An Intimate History Poster

The Roosevelts: An Intimate History Mini-Series2014

Prohibition Poster

Prohibition Mini-Series2011

Make No Little Plans: Daniel Burnham and the American City Poster

Make No Little Plans: Daniel Burnham and the American City Documentary2010

The War Mini-Series2007

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson Poster

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson Documentary2004

Jazz Mini-Series2001

Mark Twain Poster

Mark Twain Documentary2001

Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony Poster

Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony TV Series1999

Frank Lloyd Wright Poster

Frank Lloyd Wright Documentary1998

Thomas Jefferson Poster

Thomas Jefferson Mini-Series1997

The West Poster

The West Mini-Series1996

Baseball Poster

Baseball Mini-Series1994

George Marshall & the American Century Poster

George Marshall & the American Century Documentary1994

Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio Poster

Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio Documentary1991

The Civil War Poster

The Civil War Mini-Series1990

The Congress Poster

The Congress Documentary1989

Thomas Hart Benton Poster

Thomas Hart Benton Documentary1989

American Experience Poster

American Experience Mini-Series1988

Huey Long Poster

Huey Long Documentary1985

The Statue of Liberty Poster

The Statue of Liberty Documentary1985

Other Crew

19

Type

Year

Muhammad Ali Poster

Muhammad Ali Documentary2021

Country Music Poster

Country Music Mini-Series2019

Jackie Robinson Poster

Jackie Robinson Mini-Series2016

The Roosevelts: An Intimate History Poster

The Roosevelts: An Intimate History Mini-Series2014

The Central Park Five Poster

The Central Park Five Documentary2012

The Dust Bowl Poster

The Dust Bowl Mini-Series2012

Prohibition Poster

Prohibition Mini-Series2011

The National Parks: America's Best Idea Poster

The National Parks: America's Best Idea Mini-Series2009

The Jewish Americans Poster

The Jewish Americans Mini-Series2008

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson Poster

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson Documentary2004

Reporting America at War Poster

Reporting America at War TV Series2003

Mark Twain Poster

Mark Twain Documentary2001

New York: A Documentary Film Poster

New York: A Documentary Film Mini-Series1999

Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony Poster

Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony TV Series1999

Frank Lloyd Wright Poster

Frank Lloyd Wright Documentary1998

Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery Poster

Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery Documentary1997

The West Poster

The West Mini-Series1996

Baseball Poster

Baseball Mini-Series1994

American Experience Poster

American Experience Mini-Series1988

Thanks

4

Type

Year

UnBroken Poster

UnBroken Feature Film2023

The Opera Game Poster

The Opera Game Documentary2019

Cradle of Champions Poster

Cradle of Champions Documentary2017

American Experience Poster

American Experience Mini-Series1988

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