Brooklyn is getting a silver screen closeup. Documentarian Ric Burns will be at the Brooklyn Historical Society for an evening of documentary films all about the borough’s history and present.

On the C-SPAN Networks: Ric Burns is a Documentary Filmmaker with two videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2013 Forum as a Director for the "Death in the Civil War". Ric ...

Apr. 9—For a long time, Ric Burns thought he was going to be a professor of literature. Then he followed his brother, Ken, into filmmaking. Burns began his latest project, "Dante: Inferno to Paradise, ...