In 1950, James Baldwin and his lover, the painter Lucien Happersberger, set out from Paris for the mountains of Switzerland, where Baldwin, then around 25, hoped to climb his way out of a creative ...

After capturing hundreds of hours of footage, over a decade, for his new docuseries "The American Revolution," filmmaker Ken Burns knew the epic story had to begin with Benjamin Franklin. Burns was ...

Director James Cameron will take viewers behind the scenes of his blockbuster "Avatar" franchise in a new documentary set to premiere on Disney+ next month. "Fire and Water: Making the Avatar Films," ...

Director James Cameron‘s painstaking process to bring “Avatar” to the big screen will be the subject of a new documentary. “Fire and Water: Making the Avatar Films” will premiere Nov. 7 exclusively on ...

Avatar actress Zoe Saldaña was just talking earlier this week about wanting James Cameron to make a documentary about how much human artistry goes into films made with motion capture. And now, there’s ...

"Orwell: 2+2=5" led all films with seven nominations for the 2025 Critics Choice Documentary Awards, which announced its nominees on Tuesday morning. The documentary by Raoul Peck (director of the ...

The Burke-Gilman Trail is about 20 miles, but the road to becoming a Seattle transportation icon is vastly longer. “From Rails to Trails,” a new PBS documentary narrated by Edward Norton premiering ...

Who did James Baldwin love and how did those relationships shape his work? Author and scholar Nicholas Boggs set out to answer these questions in a remarkable new biography of the late American writer ...

The book, organized in sections centered around the writer's four great loves, details how Baldwin spent decades wrestling with his own sexuality, racism in the U.S. and abroad and the cost of fame.

The new documentary on Cincinnati’s King Records, which launched James Brown’s career, is making its national debut on PBS. Filmmaker Yemi Oyediran identifies the Cincinnati sound, influenced by the ...