documentary film Archives - Northwest Public Broadcasting

Filmmakers Call Out PBS For A Lack Of Diversity, Over-Reliance On Ken Burns

By NPR News March 31, 2021

Ken Burns speaks during the PBS segment of the Summer 2019 Television Critics Association Press Tour.

Nearly 140 documentary filmmakers have signed onto a letter given to PBS executives, suggesting the service may provide an unfair level of support to white creators, facing a "systemic failure to fulfill (its) mandate for a diversity of voices."Read More

FILM REVIEW: An Action-Packed Doc About Local Government? It’s All In Wiseman’s ‘City Hall’

By Scott Leadingham November 10, 2020

City Hall tags along as Boston mayor Marty Walsh attends various appointments and public appearances — including this meeting about violent crime. Courtesy of Zipporah Films

Filmmaker Frederick Wiseman, now 90, has a gift for making riveting cinema from the minutiae of the everyday. His latest is a four-and-a-half hour documentary starring Boston City Hall, pre-COVID-19.Read More

Student Mini-Docs

By Murrow News 8 Staff January 23, 2020

Four unique mini-docs that look at motherhood in higher education, police and drone technology, protecting our own backyard and WSU women's rowing. These unique mini-documentaries were produced, directed and edited by students of the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication.Read More

Ken Burns Reveals The Song Stuck In His Head As ‘Country Music’ Series Premieres On PBS

By PBS Newshour September 14, 2019

Promotional picture for the Ken Burns documentary 'Country Music'

In his latest compendium of American culture, filmmaker Ken Burns, along with writer Dayton Duncan, explores the history of “Country Music” in a new 16-hour documentary. Burns said that story-songs are a phenomenon that can be traced back centuries, to long, multi-verse ballads that were handed down from generation to generation.Read More

Filmmakers Call Out PBS For A Lack Of Diversity, Over-Reliance On Ken Burns

FILM REVIEW: An Action-Packed Doc About Local Government? It’s All In Wiseman’s ‘City Hall’

Student Mini-Docs

Ken Burns Reveals The Song Stuck In His Head As ‘Country Music’ Series Premieres On PBS

A Lost Album From John Coltrane, With Thanks To A French-Canadian Director

‘One Child Nation’ Documentary Explores The Dark Side Of Chinese Policy

Review: Documentary Film On Luciano Pavarotti Misses All The Right Notes