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  • Premieres Tuesday, May 30, 2023 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS App / FRONTLINE’s YouTube channel + Encore Thursday, June 1 at 10 p.m. on KPBS 2. Editor's Note: Extremely sensitive content in this film. A year after the Uvalde school shooting, the community's trauma and the fight over assault rifles. With the Texas Tribune, journalist Maria Hinojosa examines the police response, Uvalde's history of struggle and its efforts to heal.
  • Saturday, May 27, 2023 at 5 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Stream now with the PBS App. Grammy-winning singer, songwriter and White Stripes co-founder, Jack White joins Killer Mike for a conversation about his life on and off stage.
  • Saturday, Nov.11, 2023 at 2 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Stream now with KPBS Passport! Narrated by CBS Sports' Jim Nantz. The Seabees on Iwo Jima focuses on the United States Naval Construction Battalions in World War II, which built all the infrastructure for the Allies in Europe and the Pacific in WWII.
  • Sunday, May 28, 2023 at 11 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Stream now with the PBS App. The film tells the story of a group of Japanese Americans and their incarceration by the U.S. government during World War II. It also explores the long-term effects of this incarceration and the phenomenon of intergenerational trauma. More than 40 camp survivors and descendants bring an unparalleled immediacy and urgency to the story.
  • Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025 at 9:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS app + Encores Saturday, Feb. 22 at 3:30 p.m. on KPBS TV and Monday, Feb. 24 at 9:30 p.m. on KPBS 2. Meet Robert Pace Kidd, a local artist in Rosarito who is a great character. He is a surfing cowboy who makes amazing paintings and leather relief work. Next we go to Polos art gallery. We find out that Rosarito is considered by some to be the headquarters of art for all of Mexico.
  • Premieres Sundays, June 18 - July 2, 2023 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS App. Stream Seasons 1 - 8 now with KPBS Passport! The beloved series comes to a brilliant end this June. Shaun Evans as the young Morse and Roger Allam as his superior officer face baffling new crimes and an unsolved case from the past. You won't want to miss the final episodes the London Times praised as "classy, poignant." Mark your calendar for the Season 9 premiere on Sunday, June 18, 9/8c.
  • Premieres Wednesdays, May 24, 2023 at 10 p.m., May 24 at 11 p.m. and May 31 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV + Encore Sundays, May 28 - June 25 at 10 p.m. on KPBS 2. Comedian and TV presenter Romesh Ranganathan travels way beyond his comfort zone and the world of complimentary breakfast buffets to some of the most unlikely places on earth for a holiday.
  • Thursday, June 29, 2023 at 11:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS App. A 2022 report found that 43,000 U.S. bridges are "structurally deficient." U.S. infrastructure is in dire need of updating, and for the first time in a generation, the government may be able to do something about it. U.S. Secretary of Transportation, Pete Buttigieg, joins the show. And later, fans in the U.S. and Ukraine celebrate Eurovision 2023.
  • Tuesday, May 23, 2023 at 11:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS App + Encore Wednesday, May 24 at 4:30 p.m. on KPBS 2. Hundreds of photographs, serendipitously rescued from a San Francisco Chinatown dumpster, chronicle the lives of an immigrant community from an insider's perspective. Through images from the early to mid-1900s, they reveal the artistry of a preeminent photographer of the time, preserving community life from civic parades to small businesses to fantastic Cantonese opera scenes.
  • Premieres Sunday, May 28, 2023 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV and KPBS.org / PBS App + Encore at 9:30 p.m. on KPBS TV. Live streaming will also be available on YouTube and on the program's website. America’s national night of remembrance takes us back to the real meaning of the holiday through personal stories and tributes interwoven with musical performances. Featuring an all-star line-up with the National Symphony Orchestra, the deeply moving and reverential night brings us together as one family of Americans to honor the service and sacrifice of our men and women in uniform, military families and all those who have given their lives for our country.

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