Stephen Ives is a renowned documentary filmmaker with a career spanning over three decades, earning him numerous accolades and recognition within the industry. His work has been showcased on prominent platforms such as PBS, HBO, and American Masters.
One of his most notable projects is the Emmy-Award winning series The West, which holds the distinction of being one of the most-watched series in PBS history. In 1987, he collaborated with filmmaker Ken Burns as a consulting producer on the groundbreaking series The Civil War and Baseball.
In 1999, his profile of the innovative Cornerstone Theater Company aired on HBO, followed by his portrait of the world's smallest opera company, Amato: A Love Affair with Opera, which earned him a nomination from The Director's Guild of America for Outstanding Directorial Achievement.
His profile of the 1930's thoroughbred Seabiscuit won a prime-time Emmy award, and Reporting America at War, his three-hour series about American war correspondents, was praised by the Los Angeles Times as "television that matters...a visual document of power and clarity."
Ives has directed over a dozen acclaimed films for PBS' American Experience, including The Great War, a six-hour series that was seen by 10 million viewers when it aired on PBS in 2017. His writing for the series earned him an award from the Writers Guild of America.
In recent years, Ives has directed the PBS series American Veteran and Citizen Hearst, both of which aired in 2021. He also served as the Executive Producer of Ailey, a film that premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, was distributed theatrically by Neon, and aired on American Masters in January 2022.
