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
Nov 19 Watch After Gulf oil spill, filmmaker returns to see what happened when the cameras had gone By PBS News Hour More than four years ago, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, gushing oil into the Gulf Coast for almost three months before it was capped. Despite settlements and clean-up efforts, some communities have never fully recovered. Filmmaker Margaret Brown joins… Continue watching
Nov 19 In 'Saving Mes Aynak,' a real-life Indiana Jones fights to protect Afghanistan's Buddhist heritage By Frank Carlson Brent Huffman, the director behind the new documentary “Saving Mes Aynak,” tells the story of one of Afghanistan’s archaeological treasures and discusses the threats it faces from a Chinese mining company. Continue reading
Sep 24 One family's lessons from learning to cope with Alzheimer's By Sarah McHaney Every 67 seconds someone in the United States develops Alzheimer's, two-thirds are women. Pam White is one of them. But to documentary filmmaker Banker White, Pam is not just another Alzheimer’s patient, she is his mother. His film “The Genius… Continue reading
Sep 19 What's your favorite Ken Burns film? By News Desk As "The Roosevelts: An Intimate History" wraps tonight on PBS, we were wondering, out of the 25 films Ken Burns has created, which would you recommend if you could only pick one?… Continue reading
Jul 11 Filmmaker ponders married life after '112 Weddings' By Anya van Wagtendonk In a new film, documentarian and sometime-wedding videographer Doug Block revisits nine couples whose weddings he captured over the course of two decades. He wanted to answer two questions: what did you expect marriage to be going into it, and… Continue reading
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May 14 Watch American Vietnam Vet on re-enacting the war in 'In Country' By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Mar 21 Treasure hunt for long-buried 'E.T.' video games to begin in New Mexico By Justin Scuiletti E.T. may have phoned home in the hit 1982 feature film, but the mass-produced 1982 video game of the same name had trouble finding enough homes to play it. In fact, so many cartridges went unsold or returned that a… Continue reading