Gbh Movies

Can we harness the power of artificial intelligence to solve some of the world’s most challenging problems without creating an uncontrollable force th...

Recently released top secret files from the early 2000's expose the lies told to the American people by senior US government in this PBS documentary,...

In January 2022, one of the most powerful volcanic eruptions in recorded history rocked the Pacific islands of Tonga, sending shockwaves around the wo...

The water crisis in Flint, Michigan, brings awareness to the vulnerabilities of water systems across the U.S.

In 1900, a storm blew a boatload of sponge divers off course and forced them to take shelter by the tiny Mediterranean island of Antikythera. Diving t...

This program tells the story of a hustler and self-promoter, a man who had never designed or overseen the building of a suspension bridge. Joseph Stra...

An interwoven investigative biography of U.S. presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump that draws on dozens of interviews from those w...

In July 2022, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope released its first images, looking further back in time than ever before to show our universe in stunn...

Traces the often surprising, endlessly entertaining history of the country's most outrageous playground. Interviews with Las Vegas insiders as well as...

Jason Isbell, winner of two Grammy awards in 2016 (Best Americana Album & Best American Roots Song),performs in front of a sold-out House of Blues Bo...

Three million years ago, camels roamed through Greenland’s endless forests and our ancestors lived in the trees. It all came to an end with the Ice A...

The key moments that helped shape President-elect Donald Trump.

On April 25, 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick published their groundbreaking discovery of the double helix structure of DNA. But their crucial bre...

Based on the best-selling book by Drew Gilpin Faust, this film will explore how the American Civil War created a "republic of suffering" and will char...

On August 21, 2017, millions of Americans will witness the first total solar eclipse to cross the continental United States in 99 years. While hordes...

Reporter Arnie Reisman looks at the goals and hopes for The Big Dig, Bostonians’ opinions of the project at the time, and the history and shortcomings...

As the campaign to force Jews out of Germany ramps up, the American government blocks efforts to help rescue many of these displaced persons, and Amer...

It seems highly unlikely that Colonel Sanders ever thought that he would be selling his Kentucky Fried Chicken to the Japanese, but Kentucky Fried Chi...

When the U.S. trade embargo left Cuba isolated from medical resources, Cuban scientists were forced to get creative. Now they've developed lung cancer...

Produced by WGBH-TV in Boston, the Medium Is the Medium is one of the earliest and most prescient examples of the collaboration between public televis...