Burns started his filmmaking career with the BBC, Italian television and other broadcasters. In 1977, having completed several short documentary films, Burns began to work on adapting David McCullough's novel The Great Bridge, about the building of the Brooklyn Bridge. Burns developed a distinctive style of documentary filmmaking that saw him "cut fast from one image to the next in an ebb and flow and then enhancing the visuals by using "first-hand" narration, gleaned from writings of the present and read by the best stage and screen actors". In 1981, Burns made Brooklyn Bridge which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary. The film also received the Academy Award for Best Documentary. Burns was again nominated for The Statue of Liberty (1985). Burns often collaborates alongside Geoffrey C. Ward, author and historian. They've collaborated on documentaries like The Civil War, Jazz, Baseball and more, as well as the 10-part TV series The Vietnam War (aired September 2017).
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