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 ''American Experience'' is a television program airing on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in the United States. The program airs documentaries, many of which have won awards, about important or interesting events and people in American h ...

. 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."TV WEEKEND; Viewing New York's Past But Seeing the Present"
Retrieved 10 March 2011.

Filmography

* ''

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'' (1991) (produced in 1990.) * '' The Donner Party'' (1992) (produced in 1991.) * ''

The Way West ''The Way West'' is a 1949 western novel by A. B. Guthrie, Jr. The book won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1950 and became the basis for a film starring Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, and Richard Widmark. The novel is one in the sequence of s ...

'' (1995) (produced in 1993.) * '' 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) * '' Enquiring Minds: The Untold Story of the Man Behind the National Enquirer'' (2014) * '' American Ballet Theatre: A History'' (2015) * '' The Pilgrims'' (2015) * '' Debt of Honor: Disabled Veterans in American History'' (2015) * '' VA: the Human Cost of War'' (2017) * ''

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'' (2018) * '' Made for Each Other: A History of the Bond Between Humans and Dogs'' (2019) * '' Oliver Sacks: His Own Life'' (2019)

List of awards and nominations

* 31st News & Documentary Emmy Awards (2010) - Outstanding Nonfiction Series (nominated) "Nominees for the 31st Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards"
. Retrieved 9 March 2011. for Into the Deep: America, Whaling & The World *

27th News & Documentary Emmy Awards 7 (seven) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8. It is the only prime number preceding a cube. As an early prime number in the series of positive integers, the number seven has greatly symbolic associations in religion, mythology, s ...

(2006) - Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming (won) "Nominees for the 27th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards"
. Retrieved 9 March 2011. for '' Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film'' *

(2006) - Outstanding Nonfiction Series (nominated) for '' Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film'' under the

American Masters ''American Masters'' is a PBS television series which produces biographies on enduring writers, musicians, visual and performing artists, dramatists, filmmakers, and those who have left an indelible impression on the cultural landscape of the ...

series. *

(2006) - Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Writing (won) for Eugene O'Neill *

Peabody Award The George Foster Peabody Awards (or simply Peabody Awards or the Peabodys) program, named for the American businessman and philanthropist George Peabody, honor the most powerful, enlightening, and invigorating stories in television, radio, and ...

(2006) - (won) "GEORGE FOSTER PEABODY AWARD WINNERS"
. Retrieved 9 March 2011. for '' Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film''

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External links

''American Experience'' website

New York: A Documentary Film

The Donner Party: A Documentary Film

Way West: A Documentary Film

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List of awards and nominations

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