A documentary tells the history of the label, founded in Ohio in 1943 by Syd Nathan, that ranged from jazz to blues to the ...

A police detective in Yorkshire teams up with an autistic woman working in the records department in the British series “Patience” on PBS. Patience Evans is content to be squirreled away, working ...

Decades after Jane Austen’s death in 1817, her older sister Cassandra burned nearly all of the author’s correspondence, much to the consternation of future fans and historians. Why were thousands of ...

Brian and Maggie, PBS' Stephen Frears-directed dramatization of the famously contentious 1989 interview of U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher by broadcast journalist Brian Walden, ends with a ...

One thing that can be said about the now-50-year-old “NOVA”: It has never been very funny. But the science program’s introduction to “Decoding the Universe: Quantum” is certainly amusing. And not a ...

The new PBS Independent Lens documentary about America's public library system arrives with a very clever, two-edged title: Free for All: The Public Library. The "Free for All" part refers, of course, ...