AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: On May 8, 1970, “the Hard Hat Riot” erupted in lower Manhattan. At midday, construction workers, including those building the World Trade Center, violently clashed with students ...

To mark our anniversary, PBS News spoke with people who have been longtime viewers to hear how the show, and later its work ...

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire ...

The new documentary on Cincinnati’s King Records, which launched James Brown’s career, is making its national debut on PBS. Filmmaker Yemi Oyediran identifies the Cincinnati sound, influenced by the ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—America’s struggle for independence that began 250 years ago will take center stage next month as Mississippi State’s Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library hosts the screening of a ...

WTCI PBS announces a series of free preview screenings of “The American Revolution,” the new film from filmmakers Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt. In collaboration with local libraries and ...

While PBS itself won’t shut down anytime soon, they have now lost their largest source of financial support. This loss more directly impacts the local stations that viewers turn to. Not only does PBS ...

Ken Burns, the preeminent documentary filmmaker of his generation, knows how to captivate audiences, whether it's with history or a quip. When he told hundreds of fans at a Wayne State University ...

Young men in America are statistically struggling in school, work and in their social lives, and a new CBS documentary, "Boys to Men: Why America's Sons are Struggling," tried to find out the answers ...

When it comes to the craft of storytelling in music, there is no question that folk music does it best. After all, that is the foundation of the genre. Folk songwriters have seemingly told every ...