Once a year, early in Major League Baseball season, the national pastime honors a man who carried a cross, at least proverbially, to spare others that burden.

Lynn Novick has been directing and producing landmark documentary films about American life and culture, history, politics, sports, art, architecture, literature, and music for more than 30 years. The ...

David Schmidt has spent his entire career at Florentine Films, beginning as an intern and rising within the company to senior producer. He previously worked with Ken Burns on The Roosevelts: An ...

The hub for nonfiction fare aims to help public television “meet new audiences where they already are,” says PBS president and CEO Paula Kerger. By Katie Kilkenny Enterprise Reporter, TV & Labor PBS ...

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A new three-part, three-hour film on Henry David Thoreau will air on PBS Michiana WNIT March 30-31. Executive producers are Ken Burns and Don Henley.

Henry David Thoreau’s timing was one of his gifts: Living and writing during his nation’s adolescence, he was something of an adolescent himself. In “Walden,” he found constant wonder in the obvious; ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Henry David Thoreau is one of those figures whose name one may know but whose writing often boils down in the mind ...

A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that a key part of President Trump’s executive order targeting NPR and PBS was unconstitutional, blocking the administration from denying federal funds based on ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: What if I told you that you could watch the first four episodes of Call the Midwife right now? The fifteenth season of the popular drama premieres later tonight on PBS ...

A new PBS documentary titled "Henry David Thoreau" will air on March 30 and March 31. The film explores Thoreau's life and his engagement with the moral crises of his time, including slavery and ...

Based on John Galsworthy’s novels known collectively as “The Forsyte Saga” and adapted to television by Debbie Horsfield, PBS Masterpiece’s latest historical drama, “The Forsytes,” is a sweeping ...