How to Win a Documentary Oscar

IndieWire's Anne Thompson takes a look at how films can win a Best Documentary Feature or Best Documentary Short Academy ...
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Chris Hemsworth’s Alzheimer’s fight is shaping caregiving trends

Here’s a number that stops you in your tracks: over 55 million people worldwide are living with dementia or Alzheimer’s ...

As Dick Van Dyke turns 100, a PBS documentary fetes an artist who’s easy to celebrate

The new documentary 'Starring Dick Van Dyke' honors the actor as he turns 100 through interviews with former cast mates and ...
Cinema Blend

PBS Documentaries Has A Black Friday Subscription Deal Happening (Just In Time For Ken Burns' American Revolution Doc)

We still have a few days until Black Friday officially gets underway, but Amazon has already started dropping some incredible streaming deals ahead of the big shopping day. Fans of PBS, Ken Burns, and ...

‘Between Goodbyes’ Review: Adoption Ambiguities on PBS

This ‘POV’ documentary offers a fascinating look at issues of family and cultural difference as it follows a Korean adoptee ...
Associated Press

AP, Frontline documentary ‘2000 Meters to Andriivka’ to premiere on PBS and begin streaming online

On Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2025, Frontline, the PBS documentary series produced at GBH in Boston, and The Associated Press will present the U.S. broadcast and streaming premiere of “2000 Meters to Andriivka ...

The 16 best documentaries of 2025

The documentary films and series that captured our attention this year feature famous people and ordinary people, as well as ...
Star Tribune

Rash: Beyond history, ‘The American Revolution’ is relevant today

As a co-director of “The American Revolution,” the six-part PBS documentary that premieres on Sunday, David Schmidt seems in every sense thoroughly modern. And yet, he said in an interview, “I like to ...
Decider

Who Narrates Ken Burns’ ‘American Revolution’?

Award-winning documentarian Ken Burns is back with a new PBS documentary chronicling how America’s founding reshaped the world. Co-directed by Burns, Sarah Botstein and David P. Schmidt, The American ...
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Pearl Harbor survivor's story preserved in new PBS documentary

PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. — The story of one of our local heroes who witnessed "a date which will live in infamy" is now being preserved through a new documentary airing across the country. Harry ...
CNN

PBS, defunded by Trump, says ‘we’re still here’ with big new Ken Burns documentary

Sunday’s premiere of Ken Burns’ new PBS series “The American Revolution” doubles as an attention-grabbing statement, months after President Donald Trump succeeded in stripping away all federal funding ...
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FRONTLINE Launches FRONTLINE FEATURES: A Dedicated Effort to Produce and Distribute Cinematic, Feature-Length and Short Documentaries

TUE., NOV. 18, 2025 — FRONTLINE, the award-winning PBS documentary series produced at GBH in Boston, has announced the launch of FRONTLINE FEATURES — a new effort dedicated to producing cinematic ...