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Wednesdays, April 12 - 26 at 8 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Stream now with the PBS App. Inspired in part by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s “Americans and the Holocaust” exhibition and supported by its historical resources, The U.S. and the Holocaust examines the rise of Hitler and Nazism in Germany in the context of global antisemitism and racism, the eugenics movement in the United States and race laws in the American south.
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Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022 at 10:30 p.m. on KPBS TV + Thursday, Aug. 25 at 10:30 p.m. on KPBS 2 / On demand now. Traveling across Germany, we learn how fascism rose and then fell, taking millions of people with it. Visiting actual locations - from Munich to Nurnberg to Berlin - we trace the roots of Nazism in the aftermath of World War I, when masses of angry people were enchanted by Hitler.
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Tuesday, Aug. 23 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV + Thursday, Aug. 25 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2 / On demand now with KPBS Passport! The Berlin Wall divided Germany – and Europe - for nearly 30 years. Like other walls around the world, this inhumane structure tore families apart and destroyed lives. This 2-part program reveals a very personal perspective on this physical representation of the Cold War.
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Monday, Aug. 22, 2022 at 10:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / not available on demand. If Keone Nunes had never picked up the tools and answered the call to master of kakau, there would likely be no traditional tattooing in Hawaii today. SKINDIGENOUS is a 13-part documentary series exploring the art of tattooing as practiced by Indigenous peoples around the world.
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Wednesday, July 17, 2024 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with KPBS Passport! The film tells the incredible story of two beluga whales released from captivity into a wild ocean sanctuary and follows every step of their complex and deeply moving journey.
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Saturday, Aug. 20, 2022 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / On demand now with KPBS Passport! Experience one of the most dramatic and charismatic performances of Bowie's career on his 1983 tour. Recorded live in Vancouver, it features his greatest hits including "Let's Dance," "Heroes," "Golden Years," "China Girl" and "Space Oddity."
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Thursday, Aug. 18, 2022 at 11:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / On demand now. In the first two years of the pandemic, the WHO estimates that nearly 15 million people died from COVID-19. What's the state of COVID today and when will we be able to put this deadly disease behind us? Then, a history of the AIDS quilt. Guest: Dr. Tom Frieden, former director of the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention.
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Sunday, Aug. 14, 2022 at 1 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Not available on demand. For the first time in its history, the Met presents the original five-act French version of Verdi’s epic opera of doomed love among royalty set against the backdrop of the Spanish Inquisition. With new staging by David McVicar, conductor Patrick Furrer leads a starry cast.
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Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022 at 10:30 p.m. and Sunday, Aug. 14 at 7:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / On demand now with PBS Video App. Arcing along the southeast coast of England, we'll travel from Canterbury to Dover. Then we'll hike the trails that top the towering chalk cliffs of the South Downs, wander into the beachy resort of Brighton, and push on to Portsmouth.
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Friday, Aug. 19 and Aug. 26, 2022 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / On demand now with KPBS Passport! Two people, brought together in the most unusual of circumstances. Starring Michael Kitchen, Sophie Okonedo, Phyllis Logan, and Tom Knight, ALIBI is a romantic black comedy - a deft and extraordinary rollercoaster of love, murder and lies. It is written by Paul Abbott, one of the UK's most acclaimed screenwriters.
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