War crimes, genocide and the rule of law. A documentary tracks the struggle on four continents for the International Criminal Court.

A new look at the timeless stories behind the Broadway classic “A Chorus Line,” in the documentary “Every Little Step.”

Filmmaker Astra Taylor got some of today’s top philosophers out of their ivory towers and onto the streets — and asked for their bottom line on life.

Philippe Petit walked a high wire between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. Now they’re gone. He looks back, in an acclaimed new documentary, “Man on Wire.”

The Paskowitz family was maybe literally like no other.
Nine kids plus mom and dad living in a 24-foot camper. Never going to school. Raised on the beaches of California, Mexico, and Hawaii with surfing as their be all and end all, and the sea as their teacher.
If you’ve ever dreamed of taking your family, your [...]

War by war, icon by icon, public television documentarian Ken Burns is putting his trademark video stamp on American history.
With his colossally popular renderings of the Civil War and baseball, Mark Twain and jazz, Thomas Jefferson, Lewis and Clark and more, Burns — often with collaborator Lynn Novick — is shaping our collective memory of [...]