May 8, 2020 A 150-Year Movement: 'Asian Americans' Tells America's Story Americans are planning their exit strategy from weeks of coronavirus hibernation, but there's still a compelling reason to stay home on the evenings Read more
June 6, 2018 In the Neighborhood: The World of Mister Rogers "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 Read more
January 16, 2018 Young, Gifted and Black: A New Documentary Celebrates the Writer/Activist Lorraine Hansberry When she was a teenager in the late '70s growing up in the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania suburbs, filmmaker Tracy Heather Strain was taken by her Read more
January 8, 2018 A Cinematic Time Capsule: Three Decades of 'American Experience' 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 Read more
September 15, 2017 In Country: Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Bring Fresh Eyes to 'The Vietnam War' Vietnam looms large in the American psyche. It was a war with no news blackouts or selectively embedded journalists, and it was discussed at the Read more
August 21, 2017 Doc Star of the Month: Chief Judge Abby Abinanti, 'Tribal Justice' An eye-opening documentary about restorative justice on the rez, Anne Makepeace's Tribal Justice should be required viewing for anyone involved in Read more
April 26, 2017 Ripple Effect: 'The Prison in Twelve Landscapes' Traces the Geography of the Carceral State Things 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 Read more
January 17, 2017 Good Counsel: PBS' 'The Talk' Presents Five New Stories to Expand the Conversation about Race in America For the past several years, America has witnessed almost daily incidents of unarmed black men and women being killed by the police—and these Read more
April 23, 2015 The Outcome of the PBS Listening Tour Independent 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, Read more
May 14, 2012 Doc U Recap: The Future of Docs on PBS After a major victory was won at PBS, Doc U panelists discuss what's next for public broadcasting. Read more