An event celebrating America’s 250th anniversary, as well as Ohio’s history of films, has released its statewide calendar of ...

Historians who appear in Ken Burns documentary, 'The American Revolution' will talk Dec. 9 at free event. You can attend ...

The Sundance documentary lineup for 2026 is bursting with big-name talent including Alex Gibney, Liz Garbus, Rory Kennedy and ...

Ken Burns's new documentary achieves a tone that is unmistakably Burns: measured, atmospheric, at times elegiac and always ...

Ken Burns' latest project is an expansive documentary about the history of the American Revolution. Premiering Nov. 16 on PBS and airing over six consecutive nights, The American Revolution starts ...

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 ...

Documentaries possess a rare power to bridge time and space, weaving together fragments of reality into narratives that resonate deeply within the human psyche. They illuminate hidden truths, reveal ...

Fifty years after NASA put the first men on the moon, this 2019 history documentary was released to celebrate the essential wonder of that historic space mission, without extraneous commentary.

Sundance has become famous for its documentary programming, many of which go on to be nominated for and win Oscars. This year ...

As America's 250th birthday approaches (with the grim reaper looming large), the distinguished documentarian's 12-hour series on our country's first — and, he argues, ongoing — revolution aims to ...

This was a cinematic year of vampires, clones, restless mothers, maybe-ETs and Leonardo DiCaprio struggling to remember complex revolutionary passwords. Clarisse Loughrey has counted down the very bes ...

More than nine years in the making, this six-part,12-hour documentary series tells the tale of the country's founding struggle from viewpoints you haven't seen before. Chicago Tonight is available to ...