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Thursday, June 13, 2024 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Stream now with KPBS Passport! A U.S. anthropologist sets out to train Latin American students in the use of forensic anthropology. Their goal: to investigate disappearances in Argentina during the "dirty war." -
Encore Tuesdays, April 29 - June 3, 2025 at 7 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Stream Seasons 1 - 2 now with KPBS Passport! Season 2 will take viewers from the war-torn streets of Britain deep into Nazi Germany, the resistance within occupied France, and the brutal sands of the North African desert – where troops struggle to adapt to a very different kind of combat. -
Premieres Monday, Oct. 9, 2023 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS App + Encores Wednesday, Oct. 11 at 7 p.m. on KPBS TV and Sunday, Oct. 15 at 4 p.m. on KPBS 2. Revisit Connecticut treasures 14 years after ROADSHOW's visit to Hartford, including a French Bru doll, ca. 1880, woman's silk shoes, ca. 1785, and an 1894 Charles Courtney Curran portrait oil. Which is the top $75,000 find? -
Encore Thursday, Oct. 19 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Stream now with the PBS App. Elon Musk’s long and often troubled relationship with Twitter. Musk’s journey from one of the platform’s most provocative users to its sole proprietor, exploring the acquisition, free speech and the company’s uncertain future. -
Premieres Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023 at 5 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Stream now with the PBS App. Kelly Corrigan explains the meaning behind this season’s theme: making it in America. To her, this means not only that everyone feels allowed here, but that they feel a sense of belonging in the country. In order to achieve that, she touches on the importance of access to education, safe working conditions and health care. -
Encore Thursdays, Nov. 30, 2023 - Jan. 4, 2024 at 8:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS App. THIS WEEK: Note this episode will start at 8:41 p.m. due to the airing of "Now And Then - The Last Beatles Song." Rio learns how to style traditional Philippine clothing with Mariel Velicaria, a viral jewelry designer known for their sun crowns. Jay Jay laughs and sweats with Kristel Dela Rosa, a stand-up comedian and fitness instructor who always finds a way to make light of life’s curveballs. -
Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025 at 10:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with KPBS Passport! Experience the groundbreaking sounds of bebop pioneer and virtuoso composer Max Roach, whose far-reaching ambitions were inspired and challenged by the inequities of the society around him. -
Friday, Dec. 29, 2023 at 10 a.m. on KPBS 2 / Stream now with the PBS App. How can we reimagine trade to help countries left behind by globalization? Can we trade our way out of the world's biggest crises? GZERO sits down with one of the most powerful voices in the global economy, WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. -
Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023 at 7 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Steam now with the PBS App. From the smallest sea shell to the immense whale shark, award-winning international wildlife photographer and filmmaker Todd Gustafson introduces viewers to the creatures that inhabit the sand flats, tidepools, lagoons and ocean depths. He also shares photographic techniques and some of the physical practicalities of taking a camera underwater. -
Premieres Monday, Oct. 2, 2023 at 11:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS App. How would you handle the trauma of losing a loved one? Set in Philadelphia, this film documents African American, Muslim mother Movita Johnson-Harrell over five years as she transforms from a victim of violent trauma into a fierce advocate against gun violence in Black communities. Her relentless activism exposes the emotional and psychological toll the killings take on those left behind.
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