He was a populist hero and a corrupt demagogue, hailed as a champion of the poor and reviled as a dictator. Louisiana’s Huey Long built his remarkable career as Governor and U.S. Senator on a platform of social reform and justice, all the while employing graft and corruption to get what he wanted. Long’s spellbinding personality and political machine might have taken him to the White House had he not been assassinated in 1935. Huey Long is a complex and comprehensive portrait of the man and the era, his politics and the power he so obsessively sought.

A Film By
KEN BURNS

Written By
GEOFFREY C. WARD

Produced By
KEN BURNS
RICHARD KILBERG

Edited By
AMY STECHLER BURNS

Cinematography
KEN BURNS
BUDDY SQUIRES

Narrated By
DAVID McCULLOUGH

KEN BURNS AMERICAN STORIES SERIES UNDERWRITERS
General Motors Corporation, Corporation for Public Broadcasting and PBS

HUEY LONG ORIGINAL PRODUCTION UNDERWRITERS
National Endowment for the Humanities, Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Louisiana Committee for the Humanities

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Original Broadcast October 1986

Film Honors:
• Silver Baton; Dupont-Columbia Journalism Award, 1988
• New York Film Festival, 1985
• Telluride Film Festival, 1985
• U. S. Film Festival, 1986 Red Ribbon, American Film Festival, 1986
• CINE Golden Eagle
• Erik Barnouw Prize
• Hawaii International Film Festival, 1986
• U.S.A. Film Festival, 1986
• Vancouver Film Festival, 1986
• Outstanding Feature, Sinking Creek, 1987
• Premiere Baton Rouge, September 8, 1985
• Screened for Smithsonian Doubleday Lectures
• Screened for LSU Southern Writers Conference
• Theatrical Premiere, Washington D.C., February 7, 1986
• One of Year's Best, Vincent Canby, The New York Times, 1986