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Marian Anderson’s Story Is Made Whole in a Powerful PBS Film
As a history nerd I’m all for the underappreciated heroes of the past, but I simply had no idea about...
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Posted Saturday 7/18/20 at 4:26AM EDT
John Lewis dies: The Civil Rights Movement icon and Georgia congressman was 80
Lewis, who died Friday night of pancreatic cancer, was the last surviving organizer of the March on Washington on Aug.
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Posted Monday 7/06/20 at 9:49PM EDT
American Experience tells how women fought for the right to vote
The two-part PBS documentary The Vote, airing Monday and Tuesday, tells the story of the journey of the 19th Amendment's...
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Posted Monday 6/01/20 at 9:26AM EDT
Herb Stempel, 1950s quiz show whistleblower, dies at 93
Stempel died on April 7, almost a year to a day after fellow Twenty-One competitor Charles Van Doren's death at...
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PBS’s George W. Bush Tracks the Death of a Dynasty
Way back in 2004, Kevin Phillips wrote a huge bestseller called American Dynasty, outlining the threat of having two men...
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Posted Friday 1/10/20 at 9:38PM EST
American Experience George W. Bush documentary director says former Bush administration officials were "not there to spin"
Former Bush White House press secretary Ari Fleischer and former Bush chief of staff Andrew Card joined director Barak Goodman...
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Posted Tuesday 1/07/20 at 3:47AM EST
PBS' American Experience documentary on Joseph McCarthy draws eerie parallels to the Trump presidency
The two-hour film, premiering on some PBS stations on Monday, covers events that occurred more than six decades ago, yet...
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Posted Wednesday 8/07/19 at 11:42PM EDT
PBS' American Experience documentary on Woodstock demonstrates why the iconic music festival can never happen again
Barak Goodman’s Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation is, in contrast to Michael Wadleigh’s Oscar-winning 1970 film Woodstock, focuses...
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Posted Monday 7/29/19 at 1:49PM EDT
George W. Bush to get the PBS documentary treatment from Bill Clinton documentarian
Barak Goodman, who helmed American Experience's 2012 Bill Clinton documentary, is filming a two-part doc on Clinton's successor.
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PBS orders documentaries on Woodstock and Reconstruction, plus Ken Burns' The Gene
PBS announced it will mark the 50th anniversary of the iconic 1969 Woodstock music festival next year with a two-hour...
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Posted Wednesday 5/30/18 at 1:00AM EDT
American Experience delves into "The Chinese Exclusion Act"
The new PBS documentary by Ric Burns and Li-Shin Yu, premiering Tuesday night, is a sobering examination of the act...
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Posted Sunday 3/04/18 at 2:12PM EST
M*A*S*H star David Ogden Stiers dies at 75
The actor known for his "stuffy, punctilious" role as Major Charles Emerson Winchester III died Saturday of complications from bladder...