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How many FRONTLINE documentaries are there? ›

As of November 21, 2023, 813 episodes of Frontline have aired.

It was the first Oscar nomination ever for The Associated Press. It was “Frontline's” third nomination and first win. AP executive editor Julie Pace tweeted, “Massively proud of the brave and brilliant @AP journalists that brought the story of Mariupol to the world, and our partners at @frontlinepbs.”

FRONTLINE has served as American public television's flagship public affairs series since 1983.

FRONTLINE was founded in 1983. It is produced by the WGBH Educational Foundation and based in Boston, Mass. WGBH is a public media organization, which first aired on television in 1955.

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PBS Documentaries separates itself from the competition with its low price. The channel costs just $3.99 per month, with no yearly plan.

Daniel Day-Lewis has won the most Academy Awards for best actor (three), and a number of actors have received two such Oscars, including Spencer Tracy and Tom Hanks, both of whom won in consecutive years.

Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Major funding for FRONTLINE is provided by John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Will Lyman is the distinctive voice who has narrated most of the installments of the program since its inception in 1983.

Following the creation of the Public Broadcasting Act (1967), the government-funded Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) was established, and in 1969 it founded the Public Broadcasting Service as a successor to NET. The PBS broadcast network debuted in 1970.

What does PBS stand for? ›

Public Broadcasting Service: a network of noncommercial television stations devoted to educational and other quality programming and funded by members' contributions, government allocations, and grants from private industry.

» FRONTLINE viewers are social capitalists as PBS has defined them: Americans who are engaged in, contributing to, and participating in their communities.

William Lyman (born May 20, 1948) is an American actor. Known for his polished, resonant voice, he has narrated the PBS series Frontline since its second season in 1984. He played William Tell in the action/adventure television series Crossbow.

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The Ken Burns Collection showcases more than 40 documentaries, hundreds of clips, and dozens of filmmaker behind-the-scenes discussions. Explore classics such as The Civil War, Baseball, and Jazz, as well as monumental recent films like The Vietnam War, Country Music, and The U.S. and the Holocaust.

Television documentary series, sometimes called docuseries, are television series screened within an ordered collection of two or more televised episodes. Television documentary films exist as a singular documentary film to be broadcast via a documentary channel or a news-related channel.

With nearly 11,000 documentaries released in 2020, according to IMDB, which is more than 3x the number released in the year 2000(3,399), documentary filmmaking is only growing with our changing times.