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Encore Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV (no longer available to stream with the PBS app). What drove a company of American soldiers — ordinary young men from around the country — to commit the worst atrocity in American military history? Were they “just following orders” as some later declared? Or, did they break under the pressure of a vicious war in which the line between enemy soldier and civilian had been intentionally blurred?

A painting of an Afghan tribesman has hung for decades in an elementary school in North Attleboro, Mass. It turns out that picture is worth millions of dollars. Now the school system must decide whether it will display the painting in accordance with the wishes of its donor, or sell it.

Airs Monday, October 13, 2014 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV

The McDonald Center is one of San Diego's most successful and enduring drug and alcohol treatment centers, but construction plans to bring the Scripps La Jolla Hospital up to earthquake code could spell its demise. That has brought a strong reaction from the woman whose name the center bears.

Hughes Film Screens August 16 and 19 at Birch Theater

The Little Traitor will have an encore screening next Tuesday. It serves up relevant themes about politics, independence, and what happens when an enemy…

The Institutional Revolutionary Party is trying to make a comeback in Sunday's election for governor of the Mexican state of Baja California. The party's candidate is Tijuana's former mayor, the flamboyant billionaire and gambling magnate Jorge Hank Rhon.

Asian stock markets advanced in Monday's trading, with South Korean shares gaining for the first time in four days. China also recovered from early losses, despite numbers showing that third-quarter growth slipped to 9 percent.

Airs Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV

Police fired tear gas at looters in the central Chilean city of Concepcion as the country's president and the United Nations vowed to speed delivery of food and water in the aftermath of an earthquake and tsunami that have killed more than 700 people.