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Saturday, July 22, 2023 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with KPBS Passport! + Encore Sunday, July 23 at 6 p.m. on KPBS 2. Rock out with the legendary band at one of the biggest free concerts of all time, recorded in 2006 in Rio in front of an audience of 1.5 million fans. This fully restored and re-mastered concert includes four previously unreleased tracks. -
Friday, May 16, 2025 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS app. A special Belly Up road show takes us to Music Box in Little Italy for Squirrel Nut Zippers. The Chapel Hill North band celebrates the 25th anniversary of their album "Inevitable" featuring delta blues, gypsy jazz, folk music and more. -
Tuesday, June 21, 2022 at 10:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / On demand with PBS Video App. Kelly Corrigan joins Judd Apatow to trace his career in comedy and the value of creative collaboration. Since the late 90s, Judd Apatow has worked his way to become an established writer and producer of some of the greatest comedies of the past thirty years. -
Premieres Tuesday, May 24, 2022 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV + Thursday, May 26 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV / On demand with PBS Video App. Featuring the redemptive tale of waka builder and captain Lilo Ema Siope's final years, this film is a chronicle of journeys - journeys of migration, spirituality, voyaging, healing and coming home. Confronting intergenerational trauma head on, the Siope family returns to their homeland of Samoa. -
Sunday, May 29, 2022 at 8 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / On demand with PBS Video App. For over three decades, the National Memorial Day Concert has brought us together as one family of Americans to pay tribute to the service and sacrifice of our men and women in uniform, their families at home and all those who have given their lives for our country. -
Wednesday, July 3, 2024 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS App. Thousands of prehistoric footprints in New Mexico's White Sands National Park capture moments when Ice Age humans crossed paths with enormous ground sloths and mammoths. What can this new evidence reveal about the peopling of the Americas? -
Saturday, May 21, 2022 at 2:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / On Demand. Ming cooks at home with James Beard Award winning chef Michael Schlow. Michael makes Spicy Shrimp with Fregola and Chickpeas. Ming follows that up with a colorful Togarashi Shrimp with Miso Risotto, Edamame, and Watercress. -
Monday, May 23, 2022 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV + Wednesday, May 25 at 8 p.m. on KPBS 2 / On demand with PBS Video App. ROADSHOW’s final hour in Virginia, includes a Marvel Silver Age comics collection, a 1969 Rolex Explorer watch, and a 17th C. Tibetan bronze Buddha. One is $30,000 to $100,000! -
Thursday, May 22, 2025 at 8 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Stream now with KPBS Passport! Also available for streaming with closed captioning in Mandarin and Spanish. Discover how an outbreak of bubonic plague in 1900 set off fear and anti-Asian sentiment in San Francisco. This new documentary tells the gripping story of the race against time by health officials to save the city from the deadly disease. -
Encore Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2 / On demand now with KPBS Passport! The film is a raw, inspiring window into 5.4 million children stepping forward as frontline heroes. Caring for family with tough medical conditions. They are cheerleaders, work part-time, go to college and live double lives quietly growing up as America’s next greatest generation.
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