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Hard Hat Riot

By Ethan Padgett | October 2025

Director Marc Levin’s Hard Hat Riot, a documentary in PBS’s American Experience series, is a provocative piece that covers America during the…

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Director Marc Levin's Hard Hat Riot, a documentary in PBS's American Experience series, is a provocative piece that covers America during the turbulent...

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The PBS documentary Minted, directed by Nicholas Bruchman, explores NFTs and the artists behind them. It begins with the massive sale of Beeple's...

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Paul Faus' POV documentary, Fauna, uses cinema verité style storytelling to nudge us to reflect on the importance of animals in our lives, both good and...

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Director Susan Polis Schutz is a poet and filmmaker with an activist spirit. Her previous work includes Love Wins Over Hate, a film combatting white...

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A common misconception about short films is that they cannot be as effective as feature-length titles. Longer is often mistakenly viewed as better, with...

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Often, documentaries about issues that are political in nature tend to repeat themselves in their messaging and approach. Director Rodrigo Dorfman's...

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NOW ON PBS! PBS has come out with some of the finest documentaries out there. Many of them stem from their American Masters series. The latest...

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When considering his life's many hardships, one of the heroin users in Love in the Time of Fentanyl soberly remarks that "going down was easier than...

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Jonathan Sutak's Broken Wings is a decidedly unique documentary about Jayne Lakhani. She's a tenderhearted waitress who dedicates a large portion of her...

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NEW TO PBS! Co-writers and co-directors Jerry Risius and Beth Levison's Storm Lake offers a window into the journalism process and how local newspapers...

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