The race for the documentary feature Academy Award spotlights quality filmmaking, but also requires a whole lot of money and ...

The COVID-19 pandemic was unnerving enough, but when you add in the summer riots, the contested presidential election that ...

In 1975, a skinny Hampshire College kid making his first movie, a documentary about rural life in the early 1800s, hauled his ...

The documentary filmmaker, long a chronicler of the American experience, talks about his latest film for PBS, "The American ...

The younger members of the Kennedy family, one of the most famous political dynasties in the US, include authors, actors, and journalists.

How his public intellectual parents shaped the New York mayoral frontrunner’s politics has been a persistent line of inquiry ...

Ken Burns spent nearly 10 years creating his latest documentary about America's founding era. The filmmaker says the Revolutionary War period mirrors today's political divisions with debates about ...

You can stream “Vice” with Christian Bale and Amy Adams, satirical biopic about Dick Cheney’s life and the contentious height ...

Having entered the kindergarten the year Nixon and Kissinger entered the White House, I remember classmates thrilling to their foreign policy adventures: The undeniable fun of ping-pong diplomacy, the ...

Jennifer Lawrence says she isn't sure she should keep sharing her Democratic political views, as "celebrities do not make a ...