The final documentary of American Experience before the series pauses new production explores the life and career of the ...

After eight long years of hard work on her directorial debut, everything is coming up Rachel Michiko Whitney. The journey of ...

Burns’s 12-hour documentary about our national origin story is landing in the middle of a culture war. Yes, it’s complicated.

Documentaries and historical dramas offer those who witnessed major events firsthand the opportunity to see familiar times through new perspectives, enriched by archival materials that weren’t ...

The Siege of Ape Canyon is a new documentary diving into one of the most infamous Bigfoot encounters in history. Watch the ...

After capturing hundreds of hours of footage, over a decade, for his new docuseries The American Revolution, filmmaker Ken Burns knew the epic story had to begin with Benjamin Franklin. Burns was ...

On June 3, just two hours before a live Q&A with documentary filmmaker Ken Burns on his upcoming PBS documentary The American Revolution, President Donald Trump asked Congress to pull back the $1.1 ...

You don’t have to be a professional historian to realize this documentary's title refers to the 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, i.e., the one that abolished slavery. However, Ava DuVernay ...

Cana Academy is a Virginia-based nonprofit with a mission to train teachers and equip them with educational resources. With America’s 250th anniversary next year, the organization has embarked on an ...

The new Netflix documentary miniseries Surviving Black Hawk Down is out now, and it fixes the biggest problem with the 2001 Ridley Scott movie. Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down popularized the story of ...