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National Geographic's The First Wave took home the top award at the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards in New York City on Thursday. Matthew Heineman's documentary details the first four mont […]
Don't tell Bert or Ernie, but more than a half-century ago few believed that an experiment in children's television known as Sesame Street would succeed. The series, which debuted on PBS on November 10, 1969, soon enraptured kids and parents with its […]
The Unseen Photos of Street Gang (Abrams; December 7, 2021; U.S. $40.00; Hardcover) is an exclusive look into previously unpublished photographs from the first season of Sesame Street, featuring interviews with cast and crew. This official tie-in boo […]
For 50 years, watching “Sesame Street” has been a part of growing up for many children. Now “Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street,” a new documentary, is exploring how it all started. NBC’s Kristen Dahlgren reports for TODAY. Click the button bel […]
Long before "Sesame Street" premiered, Sonia Manzano lived there - minus the Muppets. Manzano spent 44 years on the beloved children's show as Maria, joining two years after its 1969 premiere that showed a place she knew well but TV audienc […]
For generations, Sesame Street has been a mainstay of American children's television. But when the show premiered more than 50 years ago on Nov. 10, 1969, it was considered controversial, even radical. "In 1969, what was on TV for kids was a ver […]
When Sesame Street first hit the public-television airwaves, in 1969, the target audience of kids aged three to five took to it immediately. But older kids, and even college kids, watched it too: If its goal had been to "sell" preschool kid […]
Long before "Sesame Street" premiered, Sonia Manzano lived there --- minus the Muppets. Manzano spent 44 years on the beloved children's show as Maria, joining two years after its 1969 debut that showed a place she knew well but TV audience […]
"Sesame Street" didn't start with Big Bird, Bert and Ernie. It started with Joan, Jon and Jim. Directed by Marilyn Agrelo, the documentary "Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street" (in theaters, on video-on-demand platforms Frida […]
This film about the first days of the classic kids' series is an important reminder that it was very much of its political moment, keenly so: Carefully researched before its 1969 premiere, it embraced a serious mission to provide early education to t […]
I'll always remember where I saw my first Hispanic person: She was on Sesame Street. Growing up in industrial Northern Britain in the 1970s, there were no Hispanic people, and so seeing Maria hanging out with Oscar, and Big Bird, and Gordon, and Bert […]
It's no shock that Sesame Street was born from a mixture of idealism and academic seriousness. Created by TV producer Joan Ganz Cooney and psychologist Lloyd Morrisett, then the vice-president of the Carnegie Foundation, the show aimed to bridge soci […]
Deep into HBO's thoroughly engaging documentary* Street Gang: How We Got To Sesame Street*, longtime Sesame Street producer and songwriter Christopher Cerf sits down at a piano to play a whimsical little Beatles pastiche. As he sings "Letter B,& […]
Sunny day, sweepin' the clouds away On my way to where the air is sweet Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Sesame Street... Sorry, but if I have to hear the "Sesame Street" theme in my head as I write this review, it's only fair you […]
(CNN) – "D" is for documentary, and "Sesame Street" gets celebrated in two of them this month: "Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street," a deep dive into the show's origins; and "Sesame Street: 50 Years of Sunny D […]
On November 10, 1969, I had stayed home from school with a sore throat. And that is how I may have been the only teenager to watch the very first episode of "Sesame Street." I loved it from the first "Wanda the Witch lived somewhere we […]
After more than 50 years, "Sesame Street" still has something to teach us --- at least those of use plopped in front of it as pre-schoolers who never had a sense of how it came to be. The author Michael Davis presented that history in the 2 […]
The revolution will be televised --- on a kids' show, no less, according to a new documentary. "Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street," in select theaters nationwide on Friday and inspired by a Michael Davis book, explores how a team of […]
How did the phenomenon known as "Sesame Street" come to be? Well, according to the charming and informative documentary "Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street," it started in 1969 at the New York branch of the Public Broadcasti […]
This is a perfectly executed documentary. No matter what street you grew up on, if you were born in the United States in the '60s or later, chances are you grew up on *Sesame Street. *And, as Marilyn Agrelo's film helps make clear, you -- and the cou […]
After more than 50 years, "Sesame Street" still has something to teach us --- at least those of us plopped in front of it as preschoolers who never had a sense of how it came to be. The author Michael Davis presented that history in the 200 […]
It's no shock that Sesame Street was born from a mixture of idealism and academic seriousness. Created by TV producer Joan Ganz Cooney and psychologist Lloyd Morrisett, then the vice-president of the Carnegie Foundation, the show aimed to bridge soci […]
"Sesame Street" was potent stuff, especially if you were a little ankle biter during the show's early days in the late '60s and early '70s. Proust can keep his madeleine. I'll take the Martians trying to figure out the telephone, and all of […]
According to a new documentary, the revolution will be televised --- on a kid's show, no less. "Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street" in select theaters nationwide on Friday and inspired by a Michael Davis book, explores how a team of & […]
"Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street" has the good fortune to be arriving with about a hundred more built-in advantages than most documentaries. Offering up vintage backstage footage of Jim Henson and Frank Oz operating the Muppets fee […]
It is strange, even now, even having a fairly good idea how making a television show works, to see a behind the scenes outtake of Oscar the Grouch complaining about the lack of sex on Sesame Street. It's one of those shocking moments in which the hum […]
Editor's note: This review was originally published at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. Screen Media releases the film in theaters on Friday, April 23 with a VOD release to follow on Friday, May 7. What's the magic formula that has made "Sesame […]
The most important (and frankly, most difficult) achievement of Marilyn Agrelo's documentary "Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street" is to take us back to a world in which "Sesame Street" didn't exist -- an all but impossible t […]
It makes perfect sense that there's now a documentary about the long-running children's television series "Sesame Street." After all, there's already been a doc about the puppeteer who played the characters of Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch […]
"Sesame Street" didn't start with Big Bird, Bert and Ernie. It started with Joan, Jon and Jim. Directed by Marilyn Agrelo, the documentary "Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street" (in theaters, on video-on-demand platforms Frida […]
You won’t need your boots, puffy coats and wooly hats for next year’s Sundance Film Festival, but the Robert Redford created cinema shindig is still aiming to capture movie fans and Hollywood’s attention, in a semi-virtual fashion. “Each year we sele […]
HBO Documentary Films will look back on the first two decades of beloved PBS children’s program Sesame Street in the new feature documentary Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street, premiering on HBO and HBO Max in 2021. In the late 1960s, media exe […]
Every November, as families gather for Thanksgiving and look ahead to the end of the year, the film industry starts to dream about Sundance. Well, 2020 may have challenged a lot of annual traditions, but the Sundance one lives on: Yes, the 2021 editi […]
Feature Documentary Will Allow Fans Past and Present the Ultimate Inside Look into the Creation of the Longest Running Children’s Series. Austin, TX – October 18, 2016 – Macrocosm Entertainment in association with Citizen Skull Productions is proud t […]
A stroke of luck, John says, was buying a couple of Canon 5Ds. Having exchanged the RV for a Subaru Outback, which was new last year but has thus far logged some 50,000 miles travelling from their Catskill-area home to festivals and filming locations […]
Two weeks ago, Macrocosm Entertainment, in association with Citizen Skull Productions, announced the production of “Street Gang,” a feature-length documentary about the creation and history of beloved, long-running children’s TV series “Sesame Street […]
A new documentary will soon tell us how we got, how we got to Sesame Street. Macrocosm Entertainment and Citizen Skull Productions are kickstarting a new feature documentary about the creation and history of the most beloved children’s show of all ti […]