The documentary series “American Experience” begins an abbreviated schedule this week. A victim of the federal funding take-back, it has suspended production and laid off its staff. By Mike Hale The ...

A Charlottesville filmmaker’s documentary, A Bridge to Life, will air nationwide on PBS stations beginning on Sept. 1. The film, directed by Chris Farina with Rosalia Films, premiered last year at the ...

ISLAMABAD — Muhammad Zia ur Rahman got the idea to install solar panels on his house after he saw some going up on a mosque in his neighborhood in Islamabad, Pakistan's capital city. The mosque had ...

(RNS) — ‘Islam’s Greatest Stories of Love,’ premiering Friday (Aug. 22), seeks to better understand the wisdom in five stories of various types of love. (RNS) — In May of 2022, in the middle of her ...

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) has helped make PBS a home for independent documentaries for more than 50 years. In an email to NPR, CPB said it provided over $24 million to documentary ...

Her “Seventeen,” a study of teenagers later recognized as a major work of cinéma vérité, was pulled from a public TV series in 1982 under pressure from its sponsor. By Richard Sandomir By 1982, Joel ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The Hubble Space Telescope has captured the best picture yet of a high-speed comet visiting our solar system from another star. NASA and the European Space Agency released ...

While its star projector leaves a lot to be desired, the Science Can Solar System Planetary Projector is a fantastic educational tool for kids, with its solar system model, complete with talking ...

While attending Harvard Divinity School, Ariella Gayotto Hohl knew her mission would be to contribute to her community and she thought often about how and what those things would be. But the how and ...

Ariella Gayotto Hohl and Omid Safi are featured in the documentary “Islam’s Greatest Love Stories.” They discuss some of the stories the film explores, including one on the poet Rumi and the tale of ...

A new documentary described as bringing fresh insights into the life of pioneering civil rights leader and Baltimore native Thurgood Marshall will premiere on PBS this fall. “Becoming Thurgood: ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO)– A new PBS documentary will highlight World War Two’s Atomic Veterans. The soldiers who were eyewitnesses to the devastation in the immediate aftermath of the bombings of ...