The new PBS Documentaries YouTube channel offers an expansive collection of documentaries across all forms of nonfiction ...

National Geographic’s “Trafficked With Mariana van Zeller” continues to dominate the News & Documentary Emmy nominations — earning 25 nods this year, followed by PBS’ “Frontline” series, which earned ...

Ken Burns produces the first-ever documentary on Henry David Thoreau, which moves beyond famous one-liners to explore his ...

Each spring, the Mississippi River town gussies itself up as homeowners, many in costume, open their mansions to tourists ...

In late 2025, PBS premiered The American Revolution, a six-part, 12-hour documentary series directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein, and David Schmidt about the people who waged and witnessed a war that ...

“Certain things are alive for all of us, although far in the actual past,” she wrote in a note to the composer Aaron Copland, ...

A federal judge has agreed to permanently block the Trump administration from implementing a presidential directive to end ...

In a little hand-hewn cabin by a pond, a 19th-century Harvard graduate began to live a life of what we might today call ...

Don Henley wrote down the name of one of the activists speaking against the development of the woods by Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts, where the writer Henry David Thoreau lived and wrote his ...

National Geographic’s “Trafficked With Mariana van Zeller” continues to dominate the News & Documentary Emmy nominations - ...

The film directors and guests discuss the Revolutionary War’s significance for young people today. At the event held at New York University on November 19, 2025, filmmakers Ken Burns and Sarah ...