Documentaries and historical dramas offer those who witnessed major events firsthand the opportunity to see familiar times through new perspectives, enriched by archival materials that weren’t ...

An African American composer and pianist known as one of the greatest musicians of the 19th century, Thomas Wiggins (1849-1908) was blind from birth and likely autistic. Although born into slavery, ...

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 ...

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.

This classic music doc follows Bob Dylan’s famous 1965 tour of England, which marked an important change in the music world, Dylan’s career, and music history. This film was directed by D.A.

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 ...

In the 1970s, I launched a campaign to end LGBTQ invisibility on television. Years later, that mission to show the public who we were expanded to another arena we’d long been written out of: American ...

You don’t have to be a professional historian to realize this documentary's title refers to the 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, i.e., the one that abolished slavery. However, Ava DuVernay ...

A documentary about renowned playwright and screenwriter Luis Valdez has won the seventh annual $200,000 Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize. Directed by David Alvarado, “American Pachuco: The ...

In honor of Black History Month, Maryland Public Television (MPT) and MPT2 are featuring a compelling lineup of programs that explore pivotal moments in African-American history. The programming, ...