Lynn Novick Biography

Lynn Novick has been directing and producing films about American history and culture most recently The Vietnam War an immersive 10-part 18-hour epic co-directed with Ken Burns that aired on PBS in the fall of 2017. Novick and Burns have collaborated on some of the most acclaimed and top-rated documentaries to have aired on PBS including Prohibition Baseball Jazz Frank Lloyd Wright and The War a seven part 15-hour exploration of ordinary Americans' experiences in World War II. A groundbreaking 360-degree exploration of the war the series features testimony from nearly 100 witnesses including many Americans who fought in the war and others who opposed it as well as dozens of Vietnamese combatants and civilians from the winning and losing sides. Novick is currently directing College Behind Bars (w.t.) a feature length documentary produced by Sarah Botstein about a group of men and women imprisoned in New York State for serious crimes struggling to earn degrees in a rigorous liberal arts college program the Bard Prison Initiative. College Behind Bars asks several essential questions: What is prison for? Who in America has access to educational opportunity? Can we have justice without redemption? The film will air on PBS in 2018. Novick and Burns are currently collaborating on a two-part biography of Ernest Hemingway slated for completion in 2020. She lives in New York City.

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