Pbs Movies

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

Fed up with harassment and housing discrimination, lesbians in 1990s Kansas City dreamed of a place where they could "walk hand in hand, freely down t...

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

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...

"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...

A possibly true story of the legendary Minneapolis nightclub First Avenue. Prince may have made the club famous, but many others have toiled backstage...

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...

“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...

Produced by the National Endowment for the Arts, along with the Jerome Foundation, this showcase is hour-long collection of shorts from six prominent...

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...

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...

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...

FRONTLINE investigates for-profit universities and their predatory ways against those who have served in the military.

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...

FRONTLINE investigates American-born terrorist David Coleman Headley, who helped plan the deadly 2008 siege on Mumbai. In collaboration with ProPublic...

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...

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

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...

A documentary produced by PBS affiliate WNYC as an introduction to the 1987 re-broadcast of the 1960s gothic daytime soap Dark Shadows.