For decades, a neat story about human origins has floated through textbooks and documentaries: modern humans emerged in East ...

UW-Eau Claire’s geography and anthropology department has gained national attention, including that of National Geographic.

Far from being primitive cave-dwellers, Neanderthals were intelligent, empathetic, and skilled toolmakers. They built ...

A documentary screening and exchange event titled "From Fingertips to Pixels: Legacy, Composing a New Chronicle" was recently ...

Sometimes, languages can live and die at the same time, as PhD in Cultural Anthropology candidate Adi Prakash is finding out in his Himalayan-based research.

Go beyond the hits with these powerful, intimate and often jaw-dropping documentaries that spotlight the artists, scandals and moments that shaped music history. Courtesy of Magnolia Picture; Courtesy ...

What does the U.S. government know about “unidentified aerial phenomena” (UAPs), aliens and an alleged global alien technology arms race? A brand-new documentary claims to have an answer: more than it ...

In what’s poised to be one of the most gut-wrenching documentaries of 2025, All the Empty Rooms follows CBS News correspondent Steve Hartman and photographer Lou Bopp as they memorialise the bedrooms ...

“The Age of Disclosure,” a documentary featuring government and military officials, was screened for a bipartisan group of members of the House of Representatives. The director Dan Farah at a showing ...

A combination of technological developments and market forces is undermining the trust between viewer and filmmaker. What’s at stake is history itself. Critic’s Notebook A combination of technological ...

Choosing your favorite Ken Burns series has as much to do with your historical interests as the quality of any individual projects. That’s because he doesn’t really make subpar documentaries, although ...

Ahead of the PBS production’s premiere, the legendary filmmaker and co-director Sarah Botstein share insights on their research process and the surprising, long-overlooked stories featured in the ...