This year’s crop of top documentary contenders includes films about racism, war, America’s corrupt prison system and George Orwell.

The final documentary of American Experience before the series pauses new production explores the life and career of the ...

The documentary filmmaker, long a chronicler of the American experience, talks about his latest film for PBS, "The American ...

In 1975, a skinny Hampshire College kid making his first movie, a documentary about rural life in the early 1800s, hauled his ...

Burns’s 12-hour documentary about our national origin story is landing in the middle of a culture war. Yes, it’s complicated.

Ken Burns spent nearly 10 years creating his latest documentary about America's founding era. The filmmaker says the Revolutionary War period mirrors today's political divisions with debates about ...

Mayor John Lombardi III recognized Lockport film-maker Paul Lamont and local leaders who supported the production of the documentary “America’s Stairway” with a proclamation at city hall. The ...

CHICAGO -- Mayor Lori Lightfoot officially declared June 20th as "No Small Matter Day." "No Small Matter" is a feature-length documentary about the American childcare crisis and the importance of high ...

Plans have been announced for a new documentary about the sinking of America’s flagship ocean liner. Officials with the ...

The documentary premiered Friday night on HBO Max and shows a six-year look inside Alabama's notorious prison system.