On July 2, 1964, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the historic Civil Rights Act in a nationally-televised ceremony at the White House.

What’s the street-level experience of voters in today’s America? In a triumph of documentary storytelling, P.O.V.’s Election Day combines 11 stories — shot simultaneously on November 2, 2004, from dawn until long past midnight — into one. Watch now…

More than a decade after antiretroviral treatments for HIV first debuted, HIV mortality rates have declined dramatically and they continue to drop in countries where patients have access to the drugs. Read more…

Dr. Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, discusses the ethical issues raised by commercial genetic testing. Listen to the interview…

GREAT LODGES OF THE NATIONAL PARKS visits Glacier Bay in Alaska, where rivers of ice march into the ocean and bears fish from the water’s edge. Watch a clip:

Called, ‘MoleSafe’, it was developed in New Zealand to detect melanoma early. But the first U.S. clinic to adopt the technology is in northern NJ. Watch the story…

Clay Felker, the prolific magazine editor and founder of New York Magazine, died today, July 1, 2008, at his home in Manhattan. He was 82. In April of 1995, he was interviewed by Charlie Rose.

Read a series of exclusive in-depth reports on the increasing dangers of daily life under Zimbabwe President Mugabe. One anonymous correspondent in Harare details what it is like to work as a journalist in one of the world’s most repressive regimes.

Carlin was interviewed on July 21, 2006, for the upcoming documentary special on the history of comedy, “Make ‘em Laugh”. Watch a few sections of that interview.

Tonight: an eyewitness account of the world’s largest humanitarian crisis. Heart of Darfur captures the desperation of daily life in remote villages, crowded refugee camps and in El Fasher. Read more….