The United States began developing the atom bomb in military effort called the Manhattan Project. The race to create this weapon kicked off after three chemists in Berlin, 1938, split a uranium atom ...

Director Lynn Novick to Follow Central Park’s Evolution from a Democratic Experiment in the 1850s to America’s Most Celebrated Public Space Three-Part Series to Weave History and Imagery to Explore ...

On Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2025, Frontline, the PBS documentary series produced at GBH in Boston, and The Associated Press will present the U.S. broadcast and ...

An Interwoven History, a new four-part docuseries that explores the complex relationship between Black Americans and Jewish ...

In many ways, Ken Burns is the Van Halen of historical documentary directors. Before you jump, hear me out. Watching the acclaimed filmmaker’s upcoming The American Revolution with some apprehension, ...

The PBS documentary “The American Revolution” directed by Ken Burns recently filmed at the 277-year-old Samuel Smith Farmstead in East Lyme, focusing on a specific item and room in the house. Betsey ...

As a co-director of “The American Revolution,” the six-part PBS documentary that premieres on Sunday, David Schmidt seems in every sense thoroughly modern. And yet, he said in an interview, “I like to ...

“Paradox: Echoes of Reform & the Minneapolis Police” was released on Twin Cities PBS Oct. 21. NINA MOINI: The phrase "Minneapolis police reform" may bring to mind the events of 2020. The murder of ...

PBS has censored a documentary about Art Spiegelman, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning graphic novel about the Holocaust, Maus. It removed a 90-second clip of Spiegelman at a public event. In the ...

Documentary maker Ken Burns doesn’t think today’s polarized politics are anything new, especially for a country that, as he sees it, already had two civil wars — the American Revolution of 1776 and ...