Podcast Episodes

Ken Burns on Losing His Mother and The American Buffalo — Documentary First Episode 208

Ken Burns on Losing His Mother and The American...

Ken Burns talks about the loss that made him a filmmaker and the story behind his PBS film The American Buffalo.

Ken Burns on Losing His Mother and The American...

Ken Burns talks about the loss that made him a filmmaker and the story behind his PBS film The American Buffalo.

Prehistoric Planet Composers on Building Instruments From Fossils — Documentary First Episode 203

Prehistoric Planet Composers on Building Instru...

Anže Rozman and Kara Talve tell Christian Taylor and Jason Rugg how they scored Prehistoric Planet season two with an orchestra and instruments made from fossils.

Prehistoric Planet Composers on Building Instru...

Anže Rozman and Kara Talve tell Christian Taylor and Jason Rugg how they scored Prehistoric Planet season two with an orchestra and instruments made from fossils.

Documentary First Episode 128: Why Nobody Wanted Super Size Me: A Distributor Remembers

Why Nobody Wanted Super Size Me: A Distributor ...

Joe Amodei of Virgil Films on why nobody wanted Super Size Me, 40 years in film distribution, Restrepo and We Are Columbine.

Why Nobody Wanted Super Size Me: A Distributor ...

Joe Amodei of Virgil Films on why nobody wanted Super Size Me, 40 years in film distribution, Restrepo and We Are Columbine.

Documentary First Episode 117: The War Ends, Then Margot: George Ciampa's Road Home

The War Ends, Then Margot: George Ciampa's Road...

WWII veteran George Ciampa on the end of the war, the cost of burying the dead, and Margot, the trapeze star he met in Mannheim.

The War Ends, Then Margot: George Ciampa's Road...

WWII veteran George Ciampa on the end of the war, the cost of burying the dead, and Margot, the trapeze star he met in Mannheim.

Documentary First Episode 116: Battle of the Bulge Through a WWII Veteran's Eyes: George Ciampa

Battle of the Bulge Through a WWII Veteran's Ey...

WWII veteran George Ciampa on the Battle of the Bulge: burying the frozen dead near Henri-Chapelle, buzz bombs, Malmedy and the Wereth 11.

Battle of the Bulge Through a WWII Veteran's Ey...

WWII veteran George Ciampa on the Battle of the Bulge: burying the frozen dead near Henri-Chapelle, buzz bombs, Malmedy and the Wereth 11.

Documentary First Episode 115: He Buried the Fallen After D-Day: WWII Veteran George Ciampa

He Buried the Fallen After D-Day: WWII Veteran ...

WWII veteran George Ciampa on Exercise Tiger, landing on Utah Beach and burying the fallen in Normandy's first temporary cemeteries.

He Buried the Fallen After D-Day: WWII Veteran ...

WWII veteran George Ciampa on Exercise Tiger, landing on Utah Beach and burying the fallen in Normandy's first temporary cemeteries.