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Premieres Monday, Nov. 15, 2021 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / On Demand. Go inside The Storm Lake Times, a Pulitzer-winning newspaper serving an Iowa town that has seen its share of changes. Editor Art Cullen and his family dedicate themselves to keeping the paper alive as local journalism across the country dies out. -
Sunday, Aug. 28, 2022 at 3:30 p.m. on KPBS 2 / On demand now with KPBS Passport! Experience a concert of works by legendary composer John Williams from Boston Symphony Orchestra's summer home at Tanglewood including Williams' new violin concerto performed by virtuoso Anne-Sophie Mutter and other works conducted by Andris Nelsons. -
Premieres Monday, Nov. 15, 2021 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV + Wednesday, Nov. 17 at 8 p.m. on KPBS 2 / On Demand. Celebrate 25 years of ROADSHOW with some of our best appraisals from the last two and a half decades like a Sanford Robinson Gifford oil, a Rolex Oyster Cosmograph, and an 1871-1872 Boston Red Stockings archive. Which is valued at $1,000,000? -
Encore Friday, Feb. 25, 2022 at 8:30 p.m. on KPBS 2 / On Demand. Natalie Merchant has experience enough for several lives: teen rock star, fiercely independent solo artist, mother, wildly successful environmental campaigner. And she's done it all in her own inimitable style. -
Encore Saturday, Nov. 11, 2023 at Noon on KPBS 2 / Stream now with KPBS Passport. An hour-long documentary that tells the story of two teams: the crew who flew her into combat and the restoration team that took 13 years to return her to her former glory. Two teams, separated by more than six decades, are bound together by their love of this remarkable and historic plane called the Memphis Belle. -
Thursday, Oct, 6, 2022 at 8 p.m. on KPBS 2 / On demand now with KPBS Passport! A fresh look at the science and conditions surrounding the Hindenburg explosion reveals 10 particular flaws that directly led to the infamous disaster in 1937. -
Premieres Wednesdays, March 22 and 29, 2023 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV + Sundays, March 26 and April 2 at 8 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Watch now with KPBS Passport! Go deep into the wild heart of the Rocky Mountains and experience this rugged land through the eyes of its iconic wildlife like bears and bison. Follow the drama as newborns make their way in one of the world’s most challenging and spectacular habitats. -
Wednesday, July 27, 2022 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV + Sunday, July 31 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2 / On demand now with KPBS Passport! Ultra-sensitive telescopes have transformed alien planet-hunting from science fiction into enthralling hard fact. Join NOVA on a visit to exotic worlds orbiting distant suns to answer an age-old question with thrilling new science: are we alone? -
Encore Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024 at 8:50 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Stream now with the PBS App. A huge leak reveals hidden assets and deals of the wealthy and powerful. With the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, secret finance overseas and in the U.S. Also, with Retro Report, the legacy of a 1981 massacre in El Salvador. -
Sunday, Nov. 21, 2021 at 5:30 p.m. on KPBS TV + Nov. 21 at 7:30 p.m. on KPBS Kids. Peppermint Patty invites everyone to Charlie Brown's for Thanksgiving, even though he's going to see his grandmother. Snoopy decides to cook his own version of a Thanksgiving meal with help from his friends.
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