TV Highlights

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.

Premieres Friday, April 11, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2 / PBS app. Experience Rudolf Nureyev’s revolutionary 1964 production of "Swan Lake" with ballerina Margot Fonteyn through extensive excerpts and interviews with their fellow dancers Michael Birkmeyer, Gisela Cech and others as they analyze Nureyev’s virtuosity.

Premieres Wednesday, April 9, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app + Encores Sunday, April 13 at 2 p.m. on KPBS TV and 9 p.m. on KPBS 2. How did a ragtag army defeat the most powerful army in the world to win American independence? Discover the key military technologies that helped propel the colonies to victory, from the Brown Bess musket to the world’s first military submarine.

Premieres Tuesday, April 8, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. Some of the best funk artists in history—like James Brown, George Clinton, Labelle, and Afrofunk star Fela Kuti—are featured in this musical voyage showing funk's early roots to the explosion of '70s urban funk and beyond.

Premieres Tuesday, April 8, 2025 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. Cutting-edge DNA detective work solves longstanding family mysteries for actor Laurence Fishburne and scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr.—in a unique and emotional episode where Gates finds himself as a guest on his own show for the first time.

Monday, April 7, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with KPBS Passport. Explore the remarkable on-screen career of Dame Maggie Smith, one of Britain's most prolific actresses. Smith was a prominent figure in British culture for six decades.

Premieres Monday, April 7, 2025 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app + encore Wednesday, April 9 at 7 p.m on KPBS 2. ROADSHOW visits Denver Botanic Gardens Chatfield Farms in search of treasures including a WWII WASP archive, a fire helmet & fire parade hat, and a 1956 - 1968 Al Oerter Olympic collection. Guess the top $400,000 find!