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This Thursday, June 12 WGCU’s Documentary Unit will premiere the new film “Rising: Surviving the Surge.” It features dramatic storm footage, powerful stories of resilience, and insights from scientists, first responders, and community leaders to provide a wake-up call to the reality of storm surge that we all now know is possible on a very personal level. And it offers a vital reminder to be prepared for when it matters most. We discuss the making of Rising and some of the lessons we've learned from the storm that forever changed Southwest Florida.

North Korea dominates headlines for it's missile programs, assassinations, and other acts that have earned it the nickname as "the Hermit Kingdom." But a…

This Thursday, June 12 WGCU’s Documentary Unit will premiere the new film “Rising: Surviving the Surge.” It features dramatic storm footage, powerful stories of resilience, and insights from scientists, first responders, and community leaders to provide a wake-up call to the reality of storm surge that we all now know is possible on a very personal level. And it offers a vital reminder to be prepared for when it matters most. We discuss the making of Rising and some of the lessons we've learned from the storm that forever changed Southwest Florida.

"The Freed People" explores how former African-American slaves reunited with family in the chaos following the war's end in 1865.

According to recent Census data, 34% of Southwest Florida’s population or some 463,000 of our residents are 60 years of age or older. Well, there’s a group of volunteer senior dancers who want you to know that age is just a number. The Calendar Girls are the subject of a new documentary that will be featured in May by the Fort Myers Film Festival, with a sneak preview April 22 at the Edison Ford Winter Estates.

Dan Krauss made a 2014 documentary about five U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan who were accused of murdering civilians. He told NPR's Ari Shapiro why he made the story into a feature film this year.

The Human Factorgives a behind-the-scenes view of the peace effort between Israel and Palestine. We talk with filmmaker Dror Moreh and Dennis Ross, President Clinton's point man in the effort.

This week the Fort Myers Film Festival will screen three environmental documentary selections from award-winning filmmaker and conservation and science communicator Sonny DePasquale. We’ll explore these documentaries with the filmmaker.

As PBS stations across the country continue airing the ten-park, 18-hour documentary series The Vietnam War, veterans advocates across the nation are…

We explore the practice of sentencing juveniles to life in prison without parole in the U.S. More than 2,500 inmates in America’s prison system are…