The Better Angels Society is a non-profit organization that supports outstanding American history documentaries to inspire lifelong learning, promote civic engagement, and encourage civil discourse. The organization advances this mission by raising funds to support individual films in partnership with public media, ensuring that these films are completed, broadcast, promoted, and shared with wide audiences, along with complementary education and outreach resources and programs. Through the annual Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film and Better Angels Lavine Fellows, The Better Angels Society provides additional resources, mentorship, and recognition to emerging and established filmmakers. The organization is also building the next generations of historical documentary filmmakers through innovative partnership programs that provide young people, ages 14-22, with the inspiration and training to make their own American history documentaries while also building their skills in critical thinking, communications, civics, and history.