tv documentary
- PBS' POV documentary series turns 25: watch its films online
/ 21 Jun 2012
- What happened to Titanic? Nonfiction TV attempts to answer that question
/ 14 Apr 2012
- On Mister Rogers' 84th birthday, how he inspired my love of reality television
/ 20 Mar 2012
- Icicle of death, thief penguin, brilliant killer whales: just some of Frozen Planet's awesomeness
/ 18 Mar 2012
- How South Park episodes are made
/ 9 Oct 2011
- Sept. 11 anniversary: a list of documentaries and specials airing this week
/ 6 Sep 2011
- Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero debuts tonight, telling the story of people involved
/ 25 Aug 2011
- West Memphis Three released after 18 years in prison, and documentary is credited with helping free them
/ 19 Aug 2011
- The story of baseball's first openly gay player airs tonight
/ 9 Aug 2011
- Out in America: "a more realistic portrait of LGBT life than almost anything seen on TV before"
/ 9 Jun 2011
- Ronald Reagan's legacy, myths, and wife Nancy Regan explored in three TV docs
/ 6 Feb 2011
- Afghanistan's Idol leaves contestant fearing for her life
/ 26 Jan 2011
- Children of Haiti follows three teenage orphans pre- and post-earthquake
/ 11 Jan 2011
- On Veteran's Day, the stories of soldiers with PTSD from James Gandolfini
/ 11 Nov 2010
- Circus goes behind the scenes of the Big Apple Circus
/ 3 Nov 2010
- Five years after Hurricane Katrina, TV reminds us of its horror and impact
/ 29 Aug 2010
- Fracked-up drinking water can catch fire, Gasland shows
/ 21 Jun 2010
- HBO profiles the life of murdered Iranian protester Neda as part of its summer doc series
/ 14 Jun 2010
- Frontline's Wounded Platoon explores the impact of the Iraq War on soldiers
/ 18 May 2010
- Sunshine explores "the changing definitions of family" as filmmaker reunites with birth mother
/ 4 May 2010
- Effects of solitary confinement explored in online experiment, Nat Geo Explorer episode
/ 4 Apr 2010
- Discovery and BBC's Life debuts Sunday with spectacular HD footage of "challenges of life"
/ 19 Mar 2010
- Farrah Fawcett's estate sues producer over "sensationalized" documentary, but he didn't like it, either
/ 24 Jan 2010
- Artists, scientists who "forge lives as modern- day paper folders" profiled in PBS origami doc
/ 8 Dec 2009
- HBO's Terror in Mumbai and PBS' Mumbai Massacre docs use audio, interviews from terrorists, victims
/ 19 Nov 2009
- By the People: The Election of Barack Obama doesn't use its behind-the-scenes access well
/ 3 Nov 2009
- HBO's Maurice Sendak doc: why he "hated" his parents, doesn't "believe in childhood"
/ 13 Oct 2009
- ESPN's 30 documentaries start tonight with Peter Berg's film about Wayne Gretzky
/ 6 Oct 2009
- Ken Burns' National Parks: America's Best Idea is more about people than places
/ 28 Sep 2009
- MTV airs Paris Hilton documentary Paris, Not France
/ 28 Jul 2009
- J. K. Rowling: A Year in the Life is "an intimate, personal encounter" with Harry Potter's creator
/ 16 Jul 2009
- HBO's summer documentary series includes Prom Night in Mississippi, Boy Interrupted
/ 12 Jul 2009
- Farrah Fawcett documentary will re-air on NBC Friday, Oxygen Saturday following her death from cancer today
/ 25 Jun 2009
- TV documentaries: Alzheimer's effects, girls competing against boys in soccer, and an affair born during the Holocaust
/ 26 May 2009
- HBO's fascinating Thrilla in Manila knocks Ali down and picks Frazier up
/ 12 Apr 2009
- Recycle follows ex-Mujahideen bodyguard who collects cardboard to support his family
/ 31 Mar 2009
- Lakshmi and Me explores India's modern caste system
/ 24 Mar 2009
- Animal cruelty trial, Americans' Persian wedding in Iran chronicled in documentaries
/ 17 Mar 2009
- The Witness: From the Balcony of Room 306 and Jerome Robbins: Something to Dance About both debut tonight
/ 18 Feb 2009
- A Time for Burning debuts on DOC, YouTube as part of Black History Month docs
/ 4 Feb 2009
- HBO's The Trials of Ted Haggard debuts tonight
/ 29 Jan 2009
- China's first democratic election of a third-grade hall monitor documented in Please Vote for Me
/ 20 Jan 2009
- The Old Man and the Storm debuts tonight, explores 82-year-old's post-Katrina rebuilding
/ 6 Jan 2009
- Operation Filmmaker, Cat Dancers, Grey Gardens: From East Hampton to Broadway, and other documentaries now airing
/ 30 Dec 2008
- Inheritance follows Nazi's daughter's meeting with one of her father's victims
/ 11 Dec 2008
- Britney: For the Record doesn't give us much about Britney Spears, at least not from her
/ 1 Dec 2008
- Madonna's AIDS documentary I Am Because We Are airs tonight
/ 1 Dec 2008
- The Hugo Chavez Show examines the Venezuelan president's rise to power, media use
/ 25 Nov 2008
- March Point follows at-risk Swinomish teenagers learning about their environment
/ 18 Nov 2008
- Einstein documentary explores his life and work
/ 17 Nov 2008
- Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater story explores life of the "Machiavellian godfather" of politics
/ 11 Nov 2008
- Johnny Cash's America documentary explores Cash's life, music, and impact
/ 23 Oct 2008
- Eels lead singer learns about his dad, mental illness, and quantum physics in Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives
/ 21 Oct 2008
- My Fake Baby debuts tonight, follows people who care for lifelike dolls
/ 1 Oct 2008
- Solo: Lost at Sea follows a man as he attempts to kayak from Australia to New Zealand
/ 14 Sep 2008
- 102 Minutes that Changed America includes amateur, professional footage of Sept. 11
/ 11 Sep 2008
- The Black List offers "living portraiture" interviews, while Baghdad High follows Iraqi students
/ 22 Aug 2008
- Thank You, Mr. President: Helen Thomas at the White House debuts tonight
/ 18 Aug 2008
- HBO's documentary series includes Ganja Queen and Hard Times at Douglas High
/ 1 Jul 2008
- Election Day follows 11 "real people who make our democracy work"
/ 1 Jul 2008
- Frontline's look at the Young and Restless in China debuts tonight
/ 17 Jun 2008
- Profiled: 1960 US Open golfers, Jim McKay, and parents of gay kids
/ 11 Jun 2008
- Cool School documentary tells the story of L.A.'s influential, artist-launching Ferus Gallery
/ 10 Jun 2008
- IFC's At the Death House Door documentary examines death penalty via death row chaplain
/ 29 May 2008
- PBS' Storm Over Everest explores "the worst climbing tragedy in Mount Everest's history"
/ 13 May 2008
- Carrier documentary airs next week on PBS
/ 25 Apr 2008
- MTV follows Sean Combs at Fashion Week, PBS examines Zora Neale Hurston's life
/ 9 Apr 2008
- WE's High School Confidential debuts tonight
/ 10 Mar 2008
- Frontline's Growing Up Online documentary airs tonight
/ 22 Jan 2008
- Body image series airs on BBC America; True Hollywood Story Investigates hazing
/ 2 Dec 2007
- ESPN commercials become Sundance Channel's Nimrod Nation documentary
/ 26 Nov 2007
- Life and Death in Darfur airs tonight on BET
/ 25 Nov 2007
- I Am An Animal, HBO's documentary on PETA's founder Ingrid Newkirk, debuts tonight
/ 19 Nov 2007
- National Geographic's American Skinheads documentary follows racist skinheads
/ 14 Nov 2007
- Discovery's Planet Earth encores alongside the debut of Fearless Planet tonight
/ 11 Nov 2007
- MTV airs True Life marathon Saturday
/ 28 Sep 2007
- Ken Burns' The War debuts on PBS tonight
/ 23 Sep 2007
- James Gandolfini-hosted documentary Alive Day Memories: Home From Iraq debuts tonight
/ 9 Sep 2007
- PBS follows immigrant workers' activism in Made in L.A.; MyNetworkTV debuts Court TV's Inside American Jail
/ 4 Sep 2007
- God's Warriors documentary debuts tonight on CNN
/ 21 Aug 2007
- HBO's White Light, Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki debuts tonight
/ 6 Aug 2007
- Discovery Channel's 20th Shark Week starts today
/ 29 Jul 2007
- HBO's Coma, PBS' Standing Silent Nation documentaries air tonight
/ 3 Jul 2007
- Planet Earth high-definition DVDs have sold 45,000 copies, the best-selling HD DVD yet
/ 22 Jun 2007
- VH1 airs Last Days of Left Eye documentary Sunday
/ 18 May 2007
- Discovery's $2 million per episode series Planet Earth debuts Sunday
/ 23 Mar 2007
- HBO's "multi-platform" Addiction Project debuts tonight
/ 15 Mar 2007
- HBO airs Ghosts of Abu Ghraib documentary tonight
/ 22 Feb 2007
- Alexandra Pelosi's Friends of God documentary now airing on HBO
/ 26 Jan 2007
- Steve Irwin's final documentary, tribute air Sunday
/ 19 Jan 2007
- USA debuts The Great American Christmas reality movie tonight
/ 28 Nov 2006
- MTV's True Life returns tonight with "I'm Addicted to Crystal Meth"
/ 3 Oct 2006
- Spike Lee's When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts debuts on HBO tonight
/ 21 Aug 2006
- HBO debuts Plastic Disasters tonight
/ 5 Jun 2006
- Baghdad ER debuts on HBO Sunday
/ 19 May 2006
- PBS' Windsor Castle: A Royal Year, MTV's Fat Camp documentaries debut tonight
/ 15 Feb 2006
- PBS' Country Boys debuts tonight
/ 9 Jan 2006
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