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The PBS documentary series “Independent Lens” returns for a new season on Sept. 16. The fall slate spans from September to November and includes two feature length docs and three nonfiction shorts.

The films cover a host of hot-button topics including race, veterans suffering from Ptsd and the Electoral College.

With major streamers shying away from political fare in favor of celebrity or true-crime nonfiction offerings, Itvs is one of the few platforms left for political docus that tackle current events.

“Itvs has a mandate, which is to look for bold, creative, underrepresented storytelling that’s going to serve the American public,” says Carrie Lozano, Itvs president and CEO. “We think of our work as serving the filmmaking community, the public media system and serving audiences and in particular underserved audiences. We have the luxury of not being driven by revenue, but instead being driven by a mission and a mandate...

The trailer for Netflix’s Unknown: Cave of Bones opens with the news that 1,500 bones have been discovered in a South African cave. Most importantly, the bones aren’t human.

Cave of Bones is part of a four-part documentary series premiering on the streaming service in July 2023. The four episodes will be released once a week over a four-week period. Part one, The Lost Pyramid, premiered on July 3rd, followed by Killer Robots on July 10th. Cave of Bones streams on July 17th, and the docuseries finishes up with Cosmic Time Machine on July 24th.

Netflix offered this description of the Cave of Bones episode:

“In South Africa’s Cradle of Humankind, Paleoanthropologist Lee Berger has found the world’s oldest graveyard – and it’s not human. If Lee and his team can prove that this ancient, small-brained, ape-like creature practiced complex burial rituals – it will change everything we know...

The following article contains discussions of depression, death, chronic illness, and near-death experiences.

In the quest for documentaries like Survivng Death, viewers are likely looking for a series that will explore the mysteries of life, existence, and how exactly people fit into this place known as planet Earth. The existential Netflix docuseries Surviving Death has remained a morbid curiosity among the most rabid viewers of the streaming service. Directed by Ricki Stern, the six-part series joins a long line of nonfiction films and TV shows exploring death, the afterlife, and what possibly lies ahead in the next life, if anything. While the themes can be a bit heavy and anxiety-inducing at times, the series also offers unexpected glimpses of hope and optimism.

Viewers may later want more eye-opening documentaries on similar subjects, and therefore are seeking out documentaries like Surviving Death. There are countless other documentaries on Netflix that delve...

Exclusive: Netflix has set a July 3rd global premiere for Unknown, a new four-part docuseries on which it’s partnered with Liz Garbus and Dan Cogan’s esteemed production company Story Syndicate that will have new films debuting weekly.

Unknown is said to tell breathtaking stories of adventure and exploration in awe-inspiring uncharted territories. Each film in the series pushes the boundaries of knowledge, ventures into unexplored regions, and unlocks the secrets of our world through the stories of remarkable people and places never before captured on camera.

The show’s first episode, “Unknown: The Lost Pyramid,” takes viewers to the desert sands of Saqqara, the latest hotspot of Egyptian archaeology, where two of the world’s most famous Egyptologists seek to unearth ancient treasures. The legendary Dr. Zahi Hawass hunts for the long-lost pyramid of a forgotten Egyptian king while his protege and rival, Dr. Mostafa Waziri, searches for...

"Be gone from this house!"

Amazon Studios has released the first full trailer for their new horror series Lore. The show is based on a popular podcast and it combines "documentary footage, narration, historical mixed media and cinematic scenes to explore the real-life tales behind pop culture’s most legendary horror myths, such as vampires, changelings, werewolves, séances and possessed dolls."

Each of the six episodes of the series will be based on fan-favorite episodes from the podcast. Here are the details of each the episodes:

They Made a Tonic

Before we knew how disease spread, medicine was as much superstition as it was science. And in the small New England towns of the 1800s, there is a belief that consumption can only be stopped by making sure the dead are actually dead.

Echoes

Dr. Walter Freeman is the father of the icepick lobotomy. He believes the ten-minute procedure will...

Many have heard the stranger-than-fiction stories on Aaron Mahnke's podcast, and soon it will be time to see some of them come to life on Amazon's new series Lore, premiering on Prime Video beginning Friday, October 13th, and you can watch a new teaser video for the new series right now.

Press Release: Seattle--Aug. 29, 2017-- (Nasdaq:amzn)—Amazon announced today the Amazon Original Series Lore will premiere on Friday, October 13 on Prime Video. Based on the popular podcast of the same name, which has an average of five million monthly listens, the anthology series presents the frightening and often disturbing tales based on real people and events that have led to our modern-day myths and legends. All six episodes of the series, from Executive Producers Ben Silverman (The Office), Howard T. Owens (The Biggest Loser), Gale Anne Hurd (The Walking Dead), Brett-Patrick Jenkins (Face Off), Glen Morgan (X-Files), Jon Halperin...

Joseph Baxter Sep 14, 2017

Here's the first proper trailer for Amazon's new series Lore, which is set to give real-life scary stories the true crime treatment.

Amazon’s television adaptation of Aaron Mahnke’s popular podcast Lore is creeping up on audiences with horror-inducing intrigue in time for Halloween. The series, manifesting as a 6-episode horror anthology, will showcase the podcast’s accounts of real-life scary stories, urban legends and other assorted folklore, using a mix of animation, live-action and archival footage.

Here's the first full trailer for the series...

Podcast creator Aaron Mahnke narrates the clip and, like in his podcast, the evidence he presents in the show will no doubt serve as the chilling context.

Expect to hear and see tales about vampires, werewolves, spirits, changelings and, as notably featured in the promotional material, a creepy doll given to a young boy that purportedly came alive with evil purposes...