Until he was 55 years old, Fred Riley hid his true identity, living a secret life while married and raising children. “All of society just told me, ‘you can’t be gay.’” Emile Dufour’s upbringing wasn’t any different, ingraining in him a homophobia whose effects, he said, he’ll “probably take to my grave.”The two share their poignant story in the documentary Fred and Emile, which will have its television premiere June 23 at 9pm on GBH 2. Directed, filmed and edited by Christian de Rezendes, it was produced by Jerry Bisantz with production consultant Ann Garvin— who is also Riley’s niece. Garvin and Bisantz are co-founders of The Image Theater in Lowell.

This month, NOVA’s Ice Age Footprints explores the stories these footprints tell, including remarkable new evidence of people who lived on the North American continent earlier than archaeologists had previously known. The film premieres on May 25 on GBH 2.

A Tale of Three Chinatowns, co-produced by Lisa Mao and Penny Lee, profiles Chinatowns in Boston, Chicago and Washington, D.C., and features the voices of residents, community activists, developers, government officials who have a connection to these once-ubiquitous neighborhoods.

When Boston lawyer Paul Lee reflects on his childhood in Boston’s Chinatown, he remembers the “intimate, almost village-type atmosphere” of Hudson Street and the old Quincy School.

Cooking legend Julia Child introduced French cuisine to American cooks in 1963 with GBH’s groundbreaking television series, The French Chef, now the subject of the HBO Max series, Julia. Julia was passionate about food and she changed the way Americans cook and eat. GBH is proud to look back at her accomplishments and how we helped to make her a household name and launched the entire cooking program genre.We’re taking a look at what's fact and what's fiction.

His French language skills were sorely lacking. While growing up, dinners at his house were overcooked fish, fowl and vegetables. He was a theater actor by training. So, what was this 27-year-old doing as producer/director of GBH’s The French Chef with Julia Child? We spoke with Russ Morash, now in his eighties, who is featured in HBO Max’s new fictionalized Julia series, about the early years of the GBH program, his relationship with Julia and what GBH was really like back in the day.

Flood in the Desert, the new film from AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, recounts the dramatic story of the St. Francis Dam collapse in 1928 and its aftermath, the second deadliest disaster in California history, and explores lessons that can inform solutions to the current climate crisis.

FRONTLINE’s new three-part series premiering this month, The Power of Big Oil, is a deeply researched investigation of what scientists, corporations, politicians and the public have known about climate change for decades and the many missed opportunities to mitigate the problem.

Since Therese Barry-Tanner lost her mother to Alzheimer’s disease 14 years ago, she has been on a crusade to bring the harrowing and ultimately fatal disease out of the shadows and give it the attention it deserves.

Amid a male-dominated news landscape, reporters with Khabar Lahariya, India’s only all-female news network, are covering their country’s inequities with undaunted determination.