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Filmmaker Ken Burns to Produce Sightseeing Tours

Filmmaker Ken Burns is partnering with the Tauck tour company to offer trips to national parks, Civil War sites and other destinations related to Burns' documentaries."We have been so thrilled at the ability to travel to these national parks and have had such transformative experiences, that we were excited when Tauck approached us and asked if we would help them design tours," Burns said in a phone interview Friday with The Associated Press from his offices in Walpole, N.H.Burns acknowledged that the parks are accessible without a guided tour, but said he hoped the Tauck itineraries would benefit "from our more than 20 years' experience out in the national parks, coming to understand not just their obvious beauty, but also their intimate secrets."Burns and his longtime collaborator Dayton Duncan will create two Tauck itineraries for 2011, one for national parks in the Southwest and other for Civil War sites in Washington D.C., Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania. In addition, Burns an...

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    "The Tenth Inning" director Ken Burns discusses his sequel to his popular baseball documentary .

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    Filmmaker Ken Burns weighs in on his new film airing on PBS.

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    Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns on his new film about prohibition and individual rights.

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    When Ken Burns decided to update his epic documentary "Baseball" to chronicle the tumultuous developments since it first aired in 1994, he knew that he didn't want t...

  5. Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns losing GM backing

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