Pbs Movies

Commemorating the 60th anniversary of his 1960 Grand Ole Opry induction, Hank Locklin: Country Music’s Timeless Tenor recalls the unquestionable talen...

Sympathetic Strings: Stories of the Hardanger Fiddle e​ xplores the Scandinavian American history and culture surrounding the Hardanger fiddle as it i...

Called the 'AP of the underground press,' Liberation News Service printed news from hundreds of underground papers in the '60s and '70s. LNS reporters...

On June 19, 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the so-called atomic spies of the 1950s, were executed at Sing Sing Prison. Their death only fostered th...

To children living in the rubble of post-war Germany, it was candy from heaven. Some saw it as a sign that somebody in America cared about them. To Co...

The latest film from acclaimed filmmaker David Sutherland (Kind Hearted Woman, Country Boys, The Farmer's Wife),Marcos Doesn't Live Here Anymore exam...

The Hudson River bore witness to the age of steamships, the Hudson River School of Painters, industrialization, pollution, and renewed revitalization....

"Why do we think there are only two genders? Because there are cultures that believe there are many more than two genders. And what’s the difference b...

Audience members and panelists come together for a town hall in Orlando to start a broader conversation about gun violence and the moral obligations t...

During the early 20th century, one tiny recording studio in Richmond, Indiana, had a big impact on the soundtrack of the Jazz Age. The Music Makers of...

“Secrets, Politics and Torture” unspools the dueling versions of history laid out by the CIA, which maintains that its now officially-shuttered progra...

“On the Brink of Famine” takes you inside South Sudan in 360° to meet people battling a man-made hunger crisis. Experience the front lines of a famine...

Documentary shares the story of Captain John Woodlief leading a group of 35 English settlers to America. “It’s important to tell the story to set the...

In central China, a vast underground mausoleum conceals a life-size terracotta army of cavalry, infantry, horses, chariots, weapons, administrators, a...

An epic labor strike that devastated Michigan's Copper Country in 1913 haunts the American labor movement to this day. Among the notable elements of t...

By 1964, black Mississippians had suffered 75 years of Jim Crow. Civil rights activists came up with a daring plan for change. Bringing white students...

With pliers in hand, Nebraska artist Emery Blagdon fashioned pieces of wire into patterns and attached foil, beads, ribbons and cast-off items. He hun...

A unique documentary that chronicles the amazing career of turn-of-the-century moving picture pioneer Lyman H. Howe of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, who...

This short film, culled from the PBS documentary series of the same name, was produced to celebrate the importance and legacy of New York City in the...