For documentary essayist Lee Anne Schmitt, her latest feature Evidence is, artistically speaking, both a concerted continuation and marked departure. On the one hand, it furthers her career-long ...

The full name is Law for a Lawless Land: New Mexico Territory’s Federal Judiciary, 1846-1912, and the film features the federal judges who were charged with administering justice over six chaotic ...

Unlike some of its predecessors, such as the USS Abraham Lincoln and the USS Theodore Roosevelt, which were used in Top Gun: Maverick, the USS Gerald R. Ford has remained largely off the silver screen ...

A new season of WTTW's Chicago Stories begins with a tale of two blizzards, including one that dealt a fatal blow to a political career. We spoke to the producer.

The central question at the heart of so much of today’s political commentary is who best represents working Americans. Once the working class was solidly Democratic. Not anymore. Why did ...

Presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin will speak at the Adlai E. Stevenson Memorial Lecture Series on Cct. 6.

Sutro Tower has stood for 52 years in San Francisco. In this profile, we explore how the broadcast site became a symbol of Bay Area civic pride.

Alternative facts have always been with us, and they've always been used to cover up uncomfortable truths. Here's some history you'll want to rewrite in your memory.

The Elroy-Sparta State Trail was a lightning-in-a-bottle moment for rail trails across the country. Documentarians with PBS detail the trail's vital part of trail history, narrated by Hollywood star ...