The Cheshire Cat’s vanishing smile in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a trick whereby the cat fades away ...

Every year teaches us something about absence. Not just in the names that disappear from headlines, bylines, or album sleeves ...

Study of ancient cuneiform cylinders reveals how Nebuchadnezzar II restored Kish’s ziggurat and linked his rule to Babylon’s ...

Readers Edition. This is the (nearly) annual tradition of you, RPS readers, telling us where we went wrong in our annual ...

As industry consolidation continues, documentary films face a challenging path to supportive investors, wide distribution, and sustainable success. But the best documentaries of 2025 go a long way ...

If you don’t know your past, you don’t know your future. It may be a cliché, but it’s true. Luckily, the movies are always here to tell us about the way things used to be. Are they always accurate? No ...

During the fifth century BC, Athens was a city-state to be reckoned with. Together with Sparta, it was one of the two great powers of Classical Greece. When in 431 bc the Peloponnesian War broke out, ...

It's been a long time coming, but the Eras Tour documentary is finally here. The six-part docuseries chronicling Taylor Swift's historic tour, which ended a year ago, premieres its first two episodes ...

Here we are in the overlapping center of a Venn diagram showing pro-wrestling enthusiasts and PBS fans. You’ll find chops, suplexes, lucha libre dazzle, piledrivers, dropkicks, clotheslines, and maybe ...

Xerxes I King of Persia 519 B.C.-465 B.C. or 464 B.C Introduction: Debating Xerxes' Rule in Babylonia / Caroline Waerzeggers -- Towards a Framework for Interpreting Social and Economic Change in ...

The documentarian hired to film Sean “Diddy” Combs over the past two years has shed light on how Netflix obtained behind-the-scenes footage of Combs in the days leading up to his arrest. “For over two ...