I’ve been thinking a lot about what a unique, strange and unpredictable thing the web series space is, and how working in it after a decade of working
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It is an extraordinary time in the expansion of documentary filmmaking when narrative nonfiction programming has reached rock-star status. It seems
In October 2011, the documentary series Women, War & Peace premiered on PBS. It consisted of five hour-long docs, including Pray the Devil Back to
Filmmaker Steve James earned the first Best Documentary Oscar nomination of his distinguished career earlier this year for Abacus: Small Enough to
The term "the fourth estate" was coined by long-time New York Times columnist William Safire, "to put the press on an equal footing with the greatest
Since American Experience debuted in October 1988, a guiding principle of the PBS series has been a belief that history matters. History can help us
Vietnam looms large in the American psyche. It was a war with no news blackouts or selectively embedded journalists, and it was discussed at the
For the past several years, America has witnessed almost daily incidents of unarmed black men and women being killed by the police—and these incidents
The holidays are a time for bingeing on turkey and trimmings and — if Netflix gets its way —a new true-crime documentary series. The 10-part Making a
The Art of the Real series was launched in 2014, under the auspices of the Film Society of Lincoln Center, with the objective of focusing more