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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

The new documentary on Cincinnati’s King Records, which launched James Brown’s career, is making its national debut on PBS. Filmmaker Yemi Oyediran identifies the Cincinnati sound, influenced by the ...

GBH announced Tuesday that it is laying off 13 employees at American Experience, and pausing production of new American Experience documentaries. “Severe cuts in federal funding for public media are ...

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 ...

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 ...