GBH is pausing new episodes of American Experience, public television’s signature documentary series about American history, following Congress’ move to zero out federal funding for stations, NPR and ...
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 ...
WASHINGTON, DC — December 4, 2025 — PBS and WETA today announced BLACK AND JEWISH AMERICA: AN INTERWOVEN HISTORY, a new four-part docuseries that explores the complex relationship between Black ...
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 ...
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: On May 8, 1970, “the Hard Hat Riot” erupted in lower Manhattan. At midday, construction workers, including those building the World Trade Center, violently clashed with students ...
The documentary aims to look at the Revolution from multiple perspectives, moving beyond common myths. A large cast of actors, including Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, and Morgan Freeman, will voice ...
PBS has extended Ken Burns’ free streaming window for his history docuseries “The American Revolution,” following its ratings success. The 12-hour documentary series, directed by Burns, Sarah Botstein ...
The Athens Regional Library will host a special program on an upcoming PBS documentary, "The American Revolution," on Tuesday, Nov. 11. The program scheduled for 6-7 p.m. is a prelude to the 2026 ...