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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: 2 - The Untold Story

‘Let’s kick ass!’: Hollywood celebrities share their support of Tim Walz

Harris’s vice-presidential pick receives backing of names including Jamie Lee Curtis, Cynthia Nixon and Ken Burns

The Guardian - US

PBS Shares Fall Premieres

Ken Burns looks into Renaissance Italy, John Leguizamo chronicles Hispanic history

Broadcasting & Cable

At age 50, National History Day keeps pushing students to seek difficult truths through research

Middle and high school students across the United States are taking ownership of their history educations through a nonprofit that encourages young people to rigorously examine the past

The Independent UK

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Ken Burns calls Trump an "opioid"

In a Brandeis commencement address, the filmmaker warned that another MAGA White House would "destroy us"

Salon

‘Opioid of Opioid’ Documentarian Ken Burns lays into Donald Trump sparking MAGA outrage

Ken Burns warned Brandeis University students that ‘the choice could not be clearer’ in the November presidential election

The Independent UK

Patrick Butler Receives Lifetime Achievement Award from APTS

America’s Public Television Stations also gave its 2024 Pillar of Public Service Award to Molly Phillips, former executive director and GM of Iowa PBS

TV Tech

PBS: Network Celebrates 250 Years of America, Ken Burns Looks Beyond Our Borders (TCA)

Burns’s ‘Leonardo Da Vinci’ is his first documentary with a focus outside U.S.

Broadcasting & Cable

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Silent Cavalry review: Howell Raines’ fine work on southern resistance

The former New York Times editor’s remarkable book on Alabamians fighting for the Union in the civil war, and his own family history

The Guardian - US

Review: Ken Burns Explains the Anti–Native American Plot To Kill Bison

The American Buffalo documentary charts the fall and rise of American bison.

Reason

The Best Civil War Movies And How To Watch Them

Here are the best Civil War movies and all the various ways you can watch them online and on physical media.

Cinemablend

‘History is not what happened’: Howell Raines on the civil war and memory

In his new book, Silent Cavalry, the former New York Times editor tells of loyalties long suppressed in his native Alabama

The Guardian - US

Ken Burns: ‘The only thing that changes people is storytelling’

The documentarian talks about his new series on the American Buffalo and how its destruction became a cautionary symbol of what was to come

The Guardian - US

Ken Burns and "The American Buffalo"

A four-hour series examining the fall and recuperation of the bison makes us ask: Why are Americans so destructive?

Salon

PBS' free original programming lane may close soon, with Ken Burns and Elon Musk projects coming

There's a broadcast television network offering plenty of original programming this fall, although it often flies under the radar

The Independent UK

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Salon

Ken Burns defends Clarence Thomas photo

The filmmaker was caught taking a photo with the justice and the businessman David Koch

Broadcasting & Cable

Ken Burns Takes on the Buffalo in Latest Project

‘The American Buffalo’ on PBS starting October 16

The Independent UK

Exonerated member of 'Central Park Five' wins primary, nearly assuring seat on NYC Council

A member of the “Central Park Five” is a step closer to winning a seat on the New York City Council

Tribune News Service

Vahe Gregorian: ‘It’s not just a video game’: Negro Leagues baseball comes alive in ‘MLB The Show 23’

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The last home video game Bob Kendrick played with any regularity was via Atari, circa the Jurassic Era of the genre in the late 1970s/early ‘80s.

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The Guardian - UK

The week in TV: Welcome to Chippendales; Harry: The Interview; The US and the Holocaust; The Reunion

Robert Siegel’s true crime drama about male strippers fizzes along; Prince Harry meets pushback; and Ken Burns exposes an ugly chapter in US history

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: Ken Burns’ scathing new documentary takes apart US delusions

The famed documentarian turns his attention to the US’s real record of providing shelter – or not – for the world’s huddled masses. Plus: affable architect George Clarke returns. Here’s what to watch this evening

Reason

Review: When Americans Turned Their Backs on Holocaust Refugees

The U.S. and the Holocaust condemns anti-refugee policies of the World War II era.

Los Angeles Times

Review: Ken Burns issues a chilling warning with ‘The U.S. and the Holocaust’

“The U.S. and the Holocaust,” the latest big PBS documentary from Ken Burns, is a different sort of film for him in that — unlike “Baseball” or “Jazz” or “Benjamin Franklin” — it seems very much a response to current events, made not just as a commemoration but as a…

Roll Call

At the Races: Closing time - Roll Call

The CQ Roll Call newsroom tracks campaigns nationwide, sharing the best stories, with some extras, in the At the Races newsletter.

The Independent UK

'Philly on Fire,' 'Bella!' tie for Library of Congress prize

Documentaries about feminist leader and politician Bella Abzug and a deadly 1985 Philadelphia police bombing are the winners of this year’s Library of Congress film prize

The Conversation

Holocaust comparisons are frequent in US politics – and reflect a shallow understanding of the actual genocide and the US response

Robert Keith Packer, a 57-year-old Virginian, achieved a measure of infamy at the Jan. 6 Capitol riot when he was photographed wearing a sweatshirt emblazoned with a skull and crossbones along with the words “Camp Auschwitz.” “Work Brings Freedom,” the front said, a translation of the notorious motto “Arbeit macht…

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