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Premieres Jan. 1, 2023 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS Video app. Celebrate the new year with this annual classical music celebration featuring waltzes by Strauss from the opulent Musikverein hosted by PBS favorite Hugh Bonneville.

Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS App + Encore Sunday, May 7 at 8 p.m. on KPBS 2. David Attenborough presents seven of the most remarkable animal songs found in nature and explores the significance of these songs in the lives of their species. Each one - from the song of the largest lemur to the song of the humpback whale to the song of the lyrebird - was recorded in his lifetime. But will they soon be heard no more?

Premieres Friday, March 17, 2023 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, March 19 at 2 p.m. on KPBS 2 / PBS App. Enjoy Renee Fleming's return to the Met in this new production inspired by Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway." Also starring Tony winner Kelli O'Hara and Joyce DiDonato, the opera follows three women from different eras. Christine Baranski hosts.

Premieres Tuesday, May 9, 2023 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS App + Encore Thursday, May 11 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2. As controversy erupts around Clarence and Ginni Thomas, the inside story of their pathto power. How race, power and controversy collide in the rise of the Supreme Court Justice and his wife – a couple reshaping American law and politics.

Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with KPBS Passport + Encore Sunday, Feb. 9 at 3 p.m. on KPBS TV and 8 p.m. on KPBS 2. Immerse yourself in Scotland's wild highland landscape and meet its long-lived forest keeper, a magnificent Scots pine tree. As one of its longest living species, this ancient tree has witnessed the island's history across 500 years.

Premieres Friday, Nov. 4, 2022 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Sunday, Nov. 6 at 2 p.m. on KPBS 2 / PBS Video App. Celebrate this newly reopened home of the New York Philharmonic with a performance of Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” conducted by the NYPhil’s Music Director Jaap van Zweden along with a world premiere by Puerto Rican composer Angélica Negrón.

Sunday, July 7, 2024 at 2 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Stream now with KPBS Passport! Experience Academy Award nominee David Strathairn as reluctant World War II hero and Holocaust witness, Jan Karski, in this one-man true story of moral courage and individual responsibility.

Monday, Oct. 17, 2022 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS Video App. Following the aftermath of the March 2021 mass shootings at three spas in Atlanta, this film chronicles how the Asian American community came together to fight back against hate and explores the struggles and triumphs of AAPI communities.

Friday, April 18, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Stream now with KPBS Passport! Glimpse behind the curtain at opera legends Kathleen Battle and Jessye Norman's famed concert at Carnegie Hall on March 18, 1990, featuring performance clips and new interviews with opera star Angel Blue, Met Opera General Manager Peter Gelb and more.

Encore Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022 at 7 p.m. on KPBS 2 / PBS Video App. Witness the great wildebeest migration in East Africa, the most impressive mass movement of land animals on Earth. Travel with two Maasai guides who expose today’s conflict between people and wildlife and share new ideas for co-existence.