PBS Distribution is to launch a new documentary-focused Prime Video Channel on Amazon, PBS Documentaries.<\/p>\n
Debuting August 4, the PBS Documentaries Prime Video Channel will include a library of programs that features the entire Ken Burns collection as well as films from NOVA, Frontline, American Masters, Nature, American Experience, Independent Lens, POV and many independent producers.<\/p>\n
Andrea Downing, co-president of PBS Distribution, said: \u201cPBS is the leader of high-quality, compelling nonfiction entertainment, and the PBS Documentaries Prime Video Channel is a natural addition to our current streaming offering on Prime Video Channels\u2014PBS Masterpiece, PBS Living and PBS Kids. This channel will not only help bring engaging stories about life in all corners of our country to a new audience, it will provide needed revenues to sustain public broadcasting\u2019s public-private partnership model for the benefit of all stations and the communities they serve.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had long hoped to be able to have all of our films available in one place so the public would have access to the body of work,\u201d said Burns. \u201cWe\u2019re thrilled that this is now possible thanks to the efforts of PBS Distribution and Amazon to launch the PBS Documentaries Prime Video Channel and also through PBS\u2019s Passport initiative that allows viewers to support their public television stations. Both will also contribute to the larger mission of PBS.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFrontline was founded on the belief that longform documentaries could inform, educate and inspire public television\u2019s audiences\u2014and during these historic times, deeply reported and easily accessible journalism is invaluable,\u201d said Frontline Executive Producer Raney Aronson-Rath. \u201cThrough this new channel, we\u2019re excited to see our documentaries reach new and existing streaming audiences.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stanley Nelson, whose The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution<\/em> will be available on the channel at launch, commented, \u201cI\u2019m thrilled to see that my work will find a new home on this channel. PBS has become a premier destination for documentary programming in the U.S. and has been hugely invested in giving films by diverse storytellers and emerging filmmakers much-needed national exposure. I\u2019m so glad that my film on the Black Panther Party, which can inform communities in our current historical moment, will be able to reach different audiences on this new service.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" PBS Distribution is to launch a new documentary-focused Prime Video Channel on Amazon, PBS Documentaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":14867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[2279],"class_list":["post-14866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-pbs-distribution","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"\n