Preview the PBS ‘Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle’ Documentary

October 14, 2013

Tuesday night, October 15th, starting at 8:00 PM, PBS will air their three-hour documentary about the creation, evolution and longevity of the concept of the superhero, appropriately entitled Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle. The doc will also be released on DVD and blu-ray on the same day.

Narrated by the inimitable Liev Schreiber and featuring a lot of interviews with seminal comic creators and moviemakers, the first hour will focus on The Golden Age of 1938-1958, the second on The Silver Age of 1959-1977, and the third from 1978-now. Sounds like it’s definitely worth a watch. Plus, it’s PBS. You’re gonna learn something.

Check out this preview.

Also, check out this clip, focusing on Superman.

Comic Channel Editor

Comics Editor Andy Hunsaker has written for Yahoo! Movies, Fancast, XfinityTV and UGO, among others, covering movies and television, and has loved comics ever since he read the giant-sized Marvel Treasury Edition of The Rampaging Hulk #26 four thousand times and grew to love guys with weird heads like M.O.D.O.K. and the Bi-Beast. Therefore, he will also defend Ang Lee's Hulk, although he understands why you don't like it and won't hold that against you.

As far as reviews go, he believes the main point of being a critic is not to pass yourself off as the final arbiter of quality passing holy judgment on a work of art, but rather just to share opinions so that the reader can decide whether or not the critic is someone whose tastes generally align with theirs. If so, that reviewer is one whose work you can trust if you're curious about a particular title. If not, cue loud, angry internet vitriol.