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Assessing the risk of a potential eruption of an ancient supervolcano under the Italian city of Naples.

"McCarthy" chronicles the rise and fall of Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin senator who came to power after a stunning victory in an election no one...

This program combines a panel discussion and town hall format with documentary video segments to promote the discussion of racial problems and policy...

To understand eighteenth-century America through a woman's eyes, historian and author Laurel Thatcher Ulrich spent eight years working through Martha...

Over most of two decades, Abu Mohammad al-Jolani’s life has been a roadmap of Islamist militancy in Iraq and Syria. Designated a terrorist by...

In the early 19th century, a young woman with a harelip falls foul of her family's ambition and the superstitions of the local community, but meets a...

An examination of the hidden origins of disinformation about the 2020 election and those responsible for some of the core narratives of election...

An undercover investigation focuses on the Taliban's crackdown on women in Afghanistan.

First responders, journalists, shop owners, those inside the pressure-packed control center of Con Edison on West End Avenue, and other New Yorkers...

The Busing Battleground pulls back the curtain on the volatile effort to end school segregation, detailing the decades-long struggle for educational...

Documentary about the final five, turbulent years in the life of civil rights activist Martin Luther King. The story begins at the Lincoln Memorial...

Recently released top secret files from the early 2000's expose the lies told to the American people by senior US government in this PBS documentary,...

Who built Stonehenge and why? Groundbreaking archaeological digs have revealed major new clues about Britain's enigmatic 5,000-year-old site and the...

Produced by WGBH-TV in Boston, the Medium Is the Medium is one of the earliest and most prescient examples of the collaboration between public...

The story of how the life-saving cervical cancer test became an ordinary part of women’s lives is as unusual and remarkable as the coalition of...

MacArthur is a 1999 television documentary film about Douglas MacArthur, a United States General of the Army. Produced by PBS for The American...

Can we harness the power of artificial intelligence to solve some of the world’s most challenging problems without creating an uncontrollable...

Narrated by actress Alfre Woodard, this trenchant, eye-opening doc traces the radical civil rights leader’s life from his tumultuous childhood,...