Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns has married his girlfriend, Julie Deborah Brown, the founder of a nonprofit organization, in a civil ceremony in New Hampshire.

The couple was married by a justice of the peace Saturday at their Walpole, N.H., home.

Burns, 50, has produced and directed hit documentaries covering a wide variety of topics, including "The Civil War" in 1990, "Baseball" in 1994 and "Jazz" in 2001.

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Brown, 37, is the executive director of the New York-based Room to Grow, which supports babies born into poverty, according to The New York Times.

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