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Minted

By Daniel Rester | January 2025

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

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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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Storm Lake

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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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Two years ago, the HBO series The Watchmen introduced many to one of the darkest and largely unknown incidents in America's history: the two-day Tulsa...

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