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Movies, Videos and SoundNew York, United States2-10 Employees

Steeplechase Films is a documentary production company based in New York City, founded in 1989 by filmmaker Ric Burns. The firm focuses on creating historical documentaries, with a notable track record of producing programs for the PBS series American Experience. Its work emphasizes historical events and notable figures, leveraging Burns’ long career writing, directing, and producing such documentaries since the 1990 collaboration on The Civil War. The company is positioned within the documentary and historical narrative documentary space, contributing programs that have earned recognition on public television, including a broad, multi-episode project about New York. While small in scale, Steeplechase Films operates as a specialized production entity dedicated to in-depth, historically oriented documentary storytelling.

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