Is it surprising in the least that Ken Burns wants to make a documentary about Barack Obama? We don’t think so, either.

In a piece in The New Yorker, the filmmaker famous for his meticulous docs about “The Civil War,” “Baseball,” “Jazz,” “Prohibition,” and the forthcoming “The Vietnam War,” reveals he has plans to make movies about the Mayo Clinic, Muhammad Ali, Ernest Hemingway, the American Revolution, Lyndon B. Johnson, and, yes, Obama.

Of the Obama project, Burns said he’s very eager to get going on a film about the 44th president, but Obama hasn’t agreed to do it yet.