Lee Grant, blacklisted during McCarthyism, is speaking out against Florida's teaching standards

One of the last surviving actors to be blacklisted during the anti-communist Red Scare, the Academy Award-winning performer ...

Ken Burns 'The American Revolution' Documentary

The series features interviews with historians, illustrations of key events, re-enactors depicting warfare and life in the ...

Can You Believe the Documentary You’re Watching?

A combination of technological developments and market forces is undermining the trust between viewer and filmmaker. What’s ...

The Lesson We Teach Schoolchildren About the Holocaust Is Wrong

“First they came for the Jews.” Many Americans remember that line as the beginning of a confession, offered in 1946 by Martin ...

Ken Burns’ documentary, ‘The American Revolution,’ shares an origin story that transcends the culture wars

The PBS documentary, by filmmaker Ken Burns, tells an American origin story to bring a diverse nation together, rather than ...

Stream It Or Skip It: ‘The American Revolution’ On PBS, A Ken Burns Docuseries Takes A Deep Dive Into The U.S.’s Fight For Independence

T he American Revolution on PBS, directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt, written by Geoffrey C. Ward and ...

PBS documentary looks at 25 years of the challenges of surviving in space on the ISS

This year is the 25th anniversary of humans inhabiting the International Space Station. A new PBS documentary looks at how the ISS was built and the challenges of surviving in outer space.

What Ken Burns wants you to know about 'The American Revolution' will shock you

Ken Burns spent a decade creating his documentary series about "The American Revolution." It couldn't have come at a more pressing time.