Tag: Documentaries
KQED drops Mondavi project in underwriting controversy
KQED has dropped plans for a public TV documentary about pioneering Napa Valley winemaker Robert Mondavi after widespread newspaper reports ...Rock ’n roll pilgrimage
Admired series disappears into copyright limbo Followup, 2008 The series contained so many musical clips that the producers apparently didn’t want to ...Orlando Bagwell: History-teller takes his craft into new realm
In many ways, Orlando Bagwell’s work announced his arrival as a notable creative talent years ago, when he and a handful of ...FDR defenders enlist TV critics to refute Holocaust film
Weeks before the debut of an American Experience film on the U.S. response to the Holocaust, defenders of President Franklin Roosevelt undertook a quiet ...Review finds factual flaws in ‘The Liberators’
After a seven-month investigation of the factual accuracy of ”Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II,” WNET announced Sept. 7, ...‘The only place where you have a measure of creative control’
Documentary-maker Ken Burns told why he’s continuing to work with public broadcasting at the Television Critics Association press tour in Los Angeles ...The return of the Louds: WNET to air 1973 film
After 17 years in blissful obscurity, the Loud family is about to be put back into the public television fish bowl. WNET-TV ...
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