The war in Vietnam fractured Nguyen Qui Duc's childhood. Thirty-five years later, he documented a visit to his homeland for FRONTLINE, looking, he said, ‘for home, for a bit of myself, for a country ...

The famed filmmaker ditched a prestigious writers’ award and $20,000 prize to attend a secretive men’s-only camp.

ANN ARBOR, MI — This Ann Arbor native has picked up another Emmy nomination Wednesday, July 8. Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns earned his 19th nomination in the Outstanding Documentary or ...

Ken Burns keeps a neon sign in his editing room reading, “It’s complicated.” That was certainly true of his illuminating and ...

David McMahon has been making award-winning documentary films for more than a decade. With Ken Burns and Sarah Burns, he wrote, directed and produced The Central Park Five, a two-hour film about the ...

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Groundbreaking, thoughtful, impactful and just darn funny, Mary Tyler Moore's eponymous sitcom about a single career woman is the defining show about American second-wave feminism. It's also one of ...

As immigrant communities gather across New York City to watch the FIFA World Cup, filmmaker Victor Sanchez is documenting how soccer becomes a lens for conversations about identity, discrimination and ...

Old VHS war documentaries don’t have huge value, but they do hit a sweet spot for certain collectors. Not only ...

Filmmaker Juan Carlos Dávila’s new film for PBS, Farmers of the Sea, documents climate change’s threats to the fishing industry and food security in Vieques, Puerto Rico. For islands in the Caribbean, ...

For this week’s Staff Picks, the Film team of editor Jacob Oller and critic Monica Castillo offer some counterprogramming to the remakes and franchise entries in theaters. These films—new and old, ...

Henry David Thoreau is one of those figures whose name one may know but whose writing often boils down in the mind to titles of works never read — including "Walden" and "Civil Disobedience." Some ...