TV Highlights

Wednesday, April 16, 2025 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS app. When a rare snowy owl appears in a California suburb—the first sighting in 100 years—it captivates residents, turning a quiet neighborhood into a global destination. Through breathtaking footage and heartfelt stories, this documentary explores how one bird fostered human connection, inspired conservation awareness, and offered a moment of hope in a rapidly changing world.

Thursday, April 17, 2025 at 11:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. President Trump has made it clear he wants a ceasefire in Ukraine. But so far, Moscow has shown no interest in meaningful compromise. What will it take to start piling pressure on Putin? And even if he makes a deal, can Kyiv trust him to honor it? Guest: Dmytro Kuleba, Former Foreign Minister, Ukraine.

Premieres Wednesday, April 16, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app + Encores Sunday, April 20 at 2 p.m. on KPBS TV and 9 p.m. on KPBS 2. Can forests help cool the planet? Follow scientists through spectacular landscapes as they study complex networks of trees, fungi, and creatures large and small – all in a quest to tackle the twin threats of climate change and species extinction.

Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. This one-hour special begins in Kraków, with a stunning square, historic castle, and nearby, communist-era Nowa Huta and Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp memorial. Then we head to bustling Warsaw for skyscrapers and Chopin, sample gingerbread in Toruń, and ogle red-brick Malbork Castle. We finish in Gdańsk with handsome Hanseatic townhouses and stirring Solidarity history.

Premieres Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. What happens in the White House when reports arrive of foreign leaders murdering their own people en masse? The film investigates this over the past 40 years from Iraq to Syria and Bosnia to Kosovo, how did U.S. policy leave millions to die and how did it influence world politics today?

Saturday, April 12, 2025 at 1:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. MILK STREET visits Hungary to learn all about paprika! Christopher Kimball and J.M. Hirsch prepare Hungarian Chicken Paprikash with Dumplings and Cucumber Salad. We learn about the paprika farmers of Budapest, and Bianca Borges masters a thousand-year-old dish, Hungarian Goulash.

Saturday, April 12, 2025 at 4:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS app. Explore Costa Rica's beauty, starting at Mistico Park with its hanging bridges and wildlife. At Vida Campesina, she learns about organic farming before taking a safari cruise on the Rio Sarapiqui, spotting exotic birds and crocodiles. She visits the Organization for Tropical Studies and an organic pineapple farm. Meeting the indigenous Maleku people, she witnesses their cultural preservation.

Premieres Monday, April 14, 2025 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. Watch astonishing treasures from ROADSHOW's Baltimore stop, including 1865 Lewis M. Rutherford lunar photographs, a Patek Philippe & Tiffany platinum pocket watch, ca. 1910 and Lynne Drexler oil paintings. One is worth up to $570,000!

Stream now with the PBS app and YouTube. Millions of birds pass through our yards during their bi-annual migrations, but they face an invisible killer along the way: glass windows.

Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS app. Join Elsa Sevilla as she discovers some of the oldest fire stations in San Diego built in the early 1900s.