July 22, 2019
In 1934, Claude Neil, a 23-year-old African-American farm worker was accused of the rape and murder of a young white woman. Eight days later he was
History Docs
July 16, 2019
“Eagle, Houston. You are go for landing, over.” With this command, issued by Mission Control Center on July 20, 1969, the Apollo 11 astronauts were
June 24, 2019
Long before marriage equality, non-binary gender identity, and the flood of new documentaries commemorating this month’s 50th anniversary of the
May 11, 2019
Filmed over seven years, The Silence of Others reveals the epic struggle of victims of Spain’s 40-year dictatorship under General Francisco Franco as
May 4, 2019
Over the span of a few weeks, Werner Herzog will have had three films released. There is the world premiere of a feature film at Cannes, Family
February 15, 2019
In his third Academy Award-nominated film, Marshall Curry delivers a striking variation on his previous nominees, Street Fight and If a Tree Falls .
January 16, 2018
When she was a teenager in the late '70s growing up in the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania suburbs, filmmaker Tracy Heather Strain was taken by her
January 8, 2018
Since American Experience debuted in October 1988, a guiding principle of the PBS series has been a belief that history matters. History can help us
June 5, 2017
Letters from Baghdad , a new feature-length historical documentary that is coming to US theaters on June 2, chronicles the story of a woman who
April 14, 2017
True South By Jon Else Illustrated. 404 pages. Viking. $30. A corollary of the old adage, "You can't tell a book by its cover," may be, "You can tell