Inhuman Experiments: The Making of “The Kindred” (2021)

Give them massive numbers, that’ll impress them. The Secret Life of the Long Haul Flight (Channel 5) is one of those documentaries that does that, right from the off: each…

Experts detail the disaster and discoveries of Civil War vessels USS Monitor and HL Hunley. This program draws heavily from Dept of Defense works now in public domain and has…

A celebration of the electric guitar, hosted by Kevin Bacon and featuring interviews & performances by B.B. King, Slash, Les Paul, Robby Krieger, John 5, Paul Stanley, Skunk Baxter, Jerry…

For over 130 years till 1996, more than 100,000 of Canada’s First Nations children were legally required to attend government-funded schools run by various Christian faiths. There were 80 of…

1 day. 100 miles. The idea sounds impossible to most of us, but that’s the challenge Ashley Lindsey faces in ‘Solstice,’ which documents her attempt to finish the Western States…

For 50 years radio dominated the airwaves and the American consciousness as the first “mass medium.” In Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio, Ken Burns examines the…

With ample archival footage, detailed personal accounts by both American and Japanese forces and commentary from historians, The History Channel’s documentary goes behind the headlines of this infamous first strike…

After his son is denied enrollment by the local elementary school for not identifying his “primary race,” a multiracial father journeys through America’s maze of Identity Politics to better understand…

A film portrait of Argentinian pianist Margarita Fernández. Medium makes her visible as a mediator, building bridges between past and present, different generations, scores and music, sounds and images, her…

At age 10, aspiring pianist Norman Malone is paralyzed on his right side after being attacked by his father. Over the next several decades he masters the left-hand repertoire in…

Artist and life-long nerd Johannes Grenzfurthner is taking us on a personal road trip from the West Coast to the East Coast of the USA, to introduce us to places…

From the team behind Man on Wire comes the story of Nim, the chimpanzee who in the 1970s became the focus of a landmark experiment which aimed to show that…