About Our Documentaries
PBS is the largest public media endeavor in the United States and has garnered a reputation of editorial excellence and social responsibility. It is uniquely independent of corporate aims or political partisanship, and as such it has a responsibility to provide content that is balanced, relevant and unequivocally unbiased.
Detroit Public TV has produced several critically acclaimed national documentaries for PBS including Beyond the Light Switch, the Dupont-Columbia Silver Baton Award for documentary filmmaking in 2012.
Making It: Latino Students’ Pathways to College
Includes conversations with Latino students as well as research-based information that will help guide them as they make the transition from high school to college.
When I’m 65
When I’m 65 is a one-hour National PBS broadcast documentary that takes an innovative generational approach to the question of retirement preparedness.
The Ethanol Effect
“The Ethanol Effect” investigates the human, environmental and political costs of growing and refining corn for ethanol in America.
State of Teacher Preparation
Detroit Public Television presents ‘State of Teacher Preparation’.
Great Lakes Now
DPTV provides coverage of the most important discussions taking place around the future of the Great Lakes.
Ride the Tiger
Detroit Public Television presents Ride The Tiger a ground-breaking public television documentary that seeks to explore the dynamics of bipolar disorder.
Documentaries
- Beyond the Light Switch
- Detroit Art City
- Detroit Designs the World
- Detroit Remember When
- The Ethanol Effect
- Great Lakes Now
- Heartbeat of the Community: Recruiting and Retaining Teachers in Rural Schools
- Inside Grand Hotel
- Mackinac – Our Famous Island
- Making It: Latino Students’ Pathways to College
- Ride the Tiger
- State of Teacher Preparation: Research and Stories from Early Years in the Classroom
- Strength in Numbers: Closing Achievement Gaps through Collaboration
- When I’m 65
