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In its day,?The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson dominated ratings and garnered numerous awards. But one of its most overlooked achievements is the week when Johnny Carson gave up his chair to multi-hyphenate performer Harry Belafonte in February 1968. The Sit-In, a documentary directed by Yoruba Riche…

EXCLUSIVE: Walton Goggins, you are go for narration. The Unicorn?star is lending his voice to NASA & SpaceX: Journey to the Future,?the two-hour documentary set to air next week on both Discovery and Science Channel. The Justified Emmy nominee will narrate the project that documents Wednesday’s NASA launch of SpaceX's…

This year marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Beethoven, the German composer who created some of the world's most beloved music. It's an opportunity to celebrate his genius, a gift manifested in timeless symphonies and other works, including the Moonlight Sonata. That piece, composed as Beethoven was going…

In July of 2014, 18-year-old Conrad Roy III drove a pickup truck into the parking lot of a Kmart in the small town of Fairview, Massachusetts, filled the vehicle with toxic carbon monoxide and took his own life. He was one of 42,826 suicides in the United States that year. What turned the incident from a private…

EXCLUSIVE: The Independent Filmmaker Project on Thursday unveiled 26 feature and series projects set to participate in the indie organization’s three annual yearlong IFP Filmmaker fellowship programs for first-time filmmakers: The IFP Filmmaker Labs' Documentary Lab, Narrative Lab and Episodic Lab. In the wake of the…

Vice TV has picked up I, Sniper, a documentary series that examines the infamous Washington, D.C. sniper case with rare access to one of the shooters. The network will launch the eight-part series, which is produced by British producer Arrow Pictures, on June 2 at 10 PM. It tells the story of how, in the fall of 2002…

EXCLUSIVE: America will usher in a new era of space flight next week, and Discovery and Science Channel are offering a front-row seat. The sibling nets will share live coverage of the May 27 launch of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon Capsule that will send astronauts into space from the U.S. for the first time…

Michael Moore-backed documentary Planet of the Humans is extending its free run on YouTube for another month after its backers say it racked up 8 million views in less than four weeks of release. The film, which has been posted to Moore’s Rumble Media channel on YouTube, will remain there through the end of June…

In FX’s first documentary?AKA Jane Roe, the real-life Norma McCorvey, who was known as plaintiff "Jane Roe" in the historic Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case, tells us that what she said in the feature is her “deathbed confession”. During the docu, she dropped a bomb, confessing that she went from pro-choice to pro-life…

Leonardo DiCaprio’s latest environmentally conscientious documentary And We Go Green, is heading to Hulu. RadicalMedia announced today that the doc, which focuses on the rise of Formula E electric car racing and its positive impact in combating global warming and air pollution, will be available in the U.S. via the…

ESPN host and NBA commentator Stephen A. Smith will host a one hour primetime special, After the Dance with Stephen A. Smith: A SportsCenter Special, on Tuesday, May 19 at 8 PM ET on ABC.? The outspoken Smith will be joined by basketball Hall of Famer Magic Johnson and several other NBA legends to discuss their…

Editors' Note:?With acknowledgment of the big-picture implications of a pandemic that has claimed thousands of lives, cratered global economies and closed international borders, Deadline's?Coping With COVID-19 Crisis?series is a forum for those in the entertainment space grappling with myriad consequences of seeing a g…