Historian and filmmaker Elizabeth Cobbs and Harvard's Cold War Studies director Mark Kramer on the Cold War as the backdrop for 1968, whether in Vietnam, during the presidential campaign or in space.

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, ...

Derek Williams died Wednesday, according to his family. He had been living with Parkinson's disease and was recently ...

On Aug. 2, 1964, North Vietnamese forces supposedly attacked a pair of American ships off the coast of Vietnam. The infamous event (more commonly known as the Gulf of Tonkin incident) marked a major ...

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 ...

But a new documentary series tells a different story: one about survivors. Pompeii: Out of Time, hosted by actor Tom ...

Stream now with KPBS Passport on KPBS+ / Watch Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV. When the Soviet Union falls, ...