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Meet the Forgotten Chemist and His “Poison Squad,” Whose Fight Against Deadly Chemicals in Food Led to the Establishment of the FDA

“The Poison Squad reminds us that our current concerns about food safety have a long history."

New PBS Documentary "McCarthy" Highlights a Tumultuous Time in Our History

by Julia Brown

Director Sharon Grimberg discusses her new documentary "McCarthy," premiering on American Experience January 6, 2020. 

RetroReport is Building a Living Library of Modern News Events

by Kyla Sommers

Learn about RetroReport on PBS with this interview with executive producer Kyra Darnton. 

Woodstock at 50: A Conversation with Award Winning Filmmaker Barak Goodman

by Jonathan Montano

Goodman's latest documentary, "Woodstock: Three Days That Changed a Generation," premieres on PBS August 6th. 

Film airing on PBS recalls city's dark deportation history

The filming of "Bisbee '17," a documentary about what happened July 12, 1917, was a history lesson for residents recruited to play historical figures in the production filmed exactly 100 years later that weds documentary and collective performance.

PBS film ‘KOREA’ eyes social, political tolls of Korean War

The film, a production of WETA Washington, aired Monday and examines the lasting social and political costs of the Korean War.

Why We Need a New Civil War Documentary

by Keri Leigh Merritt

The success and brilliance of the new PBS series on Reconstruction is a reminder of the missed opportunity facing the nation.

Video of the Week: inside look at PBS's Reconstruction: America After the Civil War

See how our past affects our present with this inside look of Reconstruction with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reconstruction: America After the Civil War.

In Upcoming Documentary, Henry Louis Gates hopes to enlighten Americans about Reconstruction

The 4-part documentary will air on PBS starting April 9th. 

The Results Are In…These Are America’s “Most-Beloved” Novels, Says PBS

More than 4 million people voted, securing top honors for Harper Lee’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ in the Great American Read initiative.

PBS Announces RECONSTRUCTION: AMERICA AFTER THE CIVIL WAR, a New Documentary from Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

It will air in the Spring of 2019 on PBS.

Ken Burns’ ‘The Vietnam War’ Averaged 6.7M Viewers For PBS, Reached 34M

These ratings results mean The Vietnam War is the second-highest-rated Burns/Novick film of the past two decades, following The War in 2007.

Ken Burns's Gift to Conservatives

by Leonard Steinhorn

His documentary on Vietnam mocks the young who fought for social change.

Vietnam in the Rearview Mirror: Why Victory Was an Illusion

by John Prados

Ken Burns’s and Lynn Novick’s implicit “honor the troops” undertone makes this documentary a platform for the neo-orthodox culture war players.

The Creation of the Unprecedented PBS Series "The Vietnam War"

An Interview with Co-Director Lynn Novick

by Robin Lindley

Jonathan Zimmerman asks: What’s So Bad About Ken Burns?

by Jonathan Zimmerman

There’s one big reason that academic historians turn up their noses at his popular documentaries: sour grapes.

What Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Want Us to Believe Is that Americans Were Innocents in Vietnam

by Ron Briley

We weren’t and our history of imperialism proves it.

What’s Missing From the Vietnam War Documentary?

by Jeffrey P. Kimball

Why the US waged war in Vietnam.

Ken Burns’s War Stories

by Bob Buzzanco

He’s more storyteller than historian and that weakens his series considerably.

How ‘The Vietnam War’ Surprised Co-Director Lynn Novick

“So much of what I thought I knew just turned out not to be correct,” says Novick.