Sarah Botstein

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Sarah Botstein is an American documentary film producer. She has worked with Ken Burns and Lynn Novick on various documentaries since 2001. She, Ken Burns and David P. Schmidt directed the six-part PBS miniseries The American Revolution released November 2025. [1]

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Biography

Botstein's father is Leon Botstein, president of Bard College since 1975. [2]

Botstein graduated from Barnard College in 1994 with a Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in American Studies, with a focus on the post-World War II era. [3]

In 2018, she was nominated for a BAFTA for The Vietnam War with Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Geoffrey C. Ward. [4]

Filmography

As producer

As director

References

  1. ↑ https://azpbs.org/2025/11/the-american-revolution/
  2. 1 2 Feldman, Victor (2022-09-20). ""So Much I Didn't Know": Tivoli's Sarah Botstein Details Her Directorial Debut on Ken Burns' New Holocaust Docu-series". The Daily Catch. Retrieved 2025-12-26.
  3. ↑ "Behind the American Revolution, A Barnard Name Rising". Barnard Magazine. Retrieved 2025-12-26.
  4. ↑ "2018 Television International | BAFTA Awards". awards.bafta.org.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Home; Filmmakers, The; Burns, About Ken; Films, The; PBS, Visit Ken on; Films, Stream Our; Us, Contact; Faq. "Sarah Botstein". Ken Burns. Retrieved 2025-12-26.
  6. ↑ "Sarah Botstein '94: On Making Documentaries That Count". Barnard Magazine.
  7. ↑ "Ken Burns and Sarah Botstein on 'The U.S. and the Holocaust'". www.theringer.com.
  8. ↑ Fishbach, Brian (October 20, 2022). "Why "The U.S. and The Holocaust" Matters So Much to Documentarian Sarah Botstein". Jewish Journal.
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