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Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS app. In April 2019, the world watched as a devastating fire almost destroyed Paris's iconic Notre Dame Cathedral. Go behind the scenes with a team of engineers, masons, and timber workers tackling the daunting challenges of restoring the historic landmark. -
Friday, Nov. 29, 2024 at 8 p.m. on KPBS 2 / stream now with KPBS Passport! Discover the enduring friendship between television personality Dick Cavett and his mentor iconic comedian Groucho Marx. Their relationship is chronicled through interviews with Cavett, archival footage and interviews with George Burns and others. -
Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2022 at 10:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS Video app. Explore Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow's impact on American literature and how he navigated through issues of his time, including race, gender and the Jewish immigrant experience. Featuring interviews with Philip Roth, Salman Rushdie and others. -
Sunday, Jan. 1,2022 at 9:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS Video app. Go behind-the-scenes of the hit series about the world's favorite veterinarian and his menagerie of animal patients. Interviews with cast members, creators and those who work with the animals provide fascinating background. Season 3 will premiere Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023! -
Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023 at 7 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Stream now with KPBS Passport! Filmed over three years, “Wild Horses - A Tale from the Puszta” is a journey into the secret world of Przewalski's horse, told through the eyes of a young foal named Dot. Many other iconic animals of the grasslands make an appearance, including the Great Bustard, the Aurochs, giant spiders and many more. -
Monday, Dec. 26, 2022 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV / Watch on YouTube. The documentary chronicles the extraordinary life of Theologian Howard Thurman, a poet and "mystic" who used religious expression to help ignite sweeping social change. -
On demand now with the PBS Video app. On this episode, we rejoice in a high voltage hour with New Orleans-born R&B/jazz/gospel musician Jon Batiste. The Stephen Colbert bandleader performs songs from his album We Are, including "I Need You" and "Freedom." -
Stream now with KPBS Passport. This film tells the story about the Pope’s call to care for our planet. In 2015, Pope Francis wrote Laudato Si’, a letter to the world confronting the looming calamity of human impact on Earth and ourselves. It is one of the most ambitious and revolutionary papal statements in history and outlines the most critical environmental and social issues that we collectively face. -
Encore Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / On demand now with the PBS Video app. “Home” features Ojibwe artist Biskakone Greg Johnson, North House Folk School, ceramic artist Syd Carpenter, sculptor Wharton Esherick, architect Sim Van der Ryn & the Outlaw Builders, and curatorial consultant/educator Helen Drutt English. -
Monday, Dec. 19, 2022 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV + Wednesday, Dec. 21 at 4 p.m. and 10 p.m. on KPBS 2. The film traces Dorothy Day’s journey from a young communist journalist, to a Catholic convert, to the co-founder of The Catholic Worker newspaper and the first “houses of hospitality,” which sheltered New York City’s homeless during the Great Depression. The documentary uses extensive archival footage from Day’s own collection.
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