The writer of Walden has been flattened into a caricature, but Henry David Thoreau was much more than a "prophetic hermit," the directors of the documentary say.

I just finished my own deep dive into Thoreau as part of a 19th-century American literature course. While this hardly makes ...

Ken Burns produces the first-ever documentary on Henry David Thoreau, which moves beyond famous one-liners to explore his ...

National Geographic’s “Trafficked With Mariana van Zeller” continues to dominate the News & Documentary Emmy nominations - ...

"Free For All: The Public Library" looks at the history and contemporary fuctions of the public library system in American ...

Rita Coburn says W.E.B. Du Bois was born to tell the story of African Americans. That's one of the observations the longtime ...

The new PBS Documentaries YouTube channel offers an expansive collection of documentaries across all forms of nonfiction ...

Frontline, the PBS investigative documentary series produced at Boston's GBH, is staffing up. The series is expanding its ...

The organizations have jointly launched PBS Documentaries, a new YouTube channel that serves as a hub for long-form documentary filmmaking. The creation of the channel reflects the organizations’ ...

A new three-part, three-hour film on Henry David Thoreau will air on PBS Michiana WNIT March 30-31. Executive producers are Ken Burns and Don Henley.

March 26 Launch Includes the Premiere of Independent Lens Feature "The Inquisitor” On May 6, "Life on Earth: Attenborough's Greatest Adventure," a BBC Studios Natural History Unit production for BBC ...