May 8, 2020
Americans are planning their exit strategy from weeks of coronavirus hibernation, but there's still a compelling reason to stay home on the evenings
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June 6, 2018"For somebody who went on television 50 years ago, and who's been dead for 15 years, I feel like it's the most contemporary subject I've ever worked
January 16, 2018When 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, 2018Since American Experience debuted in October 1988, a guiding principle of the PBS series has been a belief that history matters. History can help us
September 15, 2017Vietnam looms large in the American psyche. It was a war with no news blackouts or selectively embedded journalists, and it was discussed at the
August 21, 2017An eye-opening documentary about restorative justice on the rez, Anne Makepeace's Tribal Justice should be required viewing for anyone involved in
April 26, 2017Things are rarely black and white in the realm of nonfiction, but when it comes to social justice in these United States, events can seem to align
January 17, 2017For the past several years, America has witnessed almost daily incidents of unarmed black men and women being killed by the police—and these
April 23, 2015Independent Lens and POV to stay on Mondays at 10pm On the tail of a several-month, multi-city listening tour during which leaders from PBS, ITVS,
August 30, 2003One of the most eagerly awaited documentaries of the year may also be one of the most controversial. The Blues , the seven-part, ten-and-a-half-hour