Jul 31 Watch When high-minded politicos Buckley and Vidal took the low road By PBS News Hour The new documentary "Best of Enemies" pinpoints a key moment in broadcasting: a series of debates during the 1968 political conventions between two intellectual giants. William F. Buckley on the right and Gore Vidal on the left attracted a high… Continue watching
Jul 10 Watch 6:18 New documentary ‘Amy’ reveals an artist greater than her downfall By PBS News Hour Amy Winehouse was a mega-pop star, a singer with a multi-platinum album. But she's just as well-known for her struggles with drug and alcohol addiction and her troubled relationships, which played out in front of the paparazzi before her death… Continue watching
Jun 23 Watch 6:23 Parents of slain teen Jordan Davis turn to film to raise awareness By PBS News Hour When unarmed black teenager Jordan Davis was shot by a white man at a gas station, his mother and father struggled to get justice, but ultimately saw their son’s murderer convicted. Senior correspondent Jeffrey Brown looks at a new film… Continue watching
Jun 02 Watch 6:59 Street Sense gives homeless creative tools to build careers and help others By PBS News Hour Street Sense publishes the only newspaper by and for the homeless in Washington, D.C. The organization has long trained participants in journalism and writing, and now it's expanding to offer more education in the arts and digital media, like photography… Continue watching
Apr 28 Watch 8:36 Chaos and the human costs of the Vietnam War’s final days By PBS News Hour The fall of Saigon is a story we think we know, says filmmaker Rory Kennedy. But in "Last Days in Vietnam," a new documentary airing on PBS' American Experience, the people who were there tell the almost unbelievable stories of… Continue watching
Mar 30 Watch Documentary chronicles the ‘resistance movement’ against cancer By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Mar 30 Ken Burns and Siddartha Mukherjee on adapting ‘Cancer’ from page to screen By Kyla Calvert Mason At a time when documentaries are getting more attention from mainstream moviegoers, Ken Burns, the documentarian behind epics including “The Civil War," “Baseball” and two dozen other films, says the best advice he can offer aspiring filmmakers may seem like… Continue reading
Mar 10 Banned documentary examines brutal Delhi gang rape By Larisa Epatko A documentary produced by the BBC focuses on the gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old medical student in India. It was a watershed moment in women’s rights in the nation of 1.2 billion but the movie could not be… Continue reading
Mar 05 Watch the viral documentary raising awareness about air quality in China By Larisa Epatko Chinese journalist and environmental activist Chai Jing describes in a video that’s gone viral the moment China’s pollution problem hit home. She was bringing her sick infant daughter home from the hospital and felt compelled to cover her nose with… Continue reading
Dec 05 In ‘Barefoot Artist,’ Lily Yeh confronts painful past in her journey to heal communities through art By Victoria Fleischer “The Barefoot Artist” is a documentary portrait of Lily Yeh, an artist who has worked with communities all over the world, what she calls "broken places." The film follows her life as an artist and an intimate, family history that… Continue reading