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Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022 at 9 p.m. and Sunday, Aug. 7 at 2 p.m. on KPBS TV / On demand with KPBS Passport! Take a seat on the ultimate thrill ride to explore nature?s strangest and most powerful objects. Discover new science showing how black holes reshape entire galaxies, warp the fabric of space and time, and might even be portals to another universe. -
Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2 + Encore Thursday, Nov. 9 at 4 p.m. on KPBS 2 / No longer available on demand. Brothers Manuel and Valente Valenzuela both volunteered and fought in Vietnam. Fifty years later they are among thousands of veterans who are being deported. The brothers don their uniforms for one last fight, to bring all the veterans back home. -
Saturday, Nov. 13, 2021 at 4 p.m. on KPBS 2 / On Demand. The remarkable account of James Schmidt's World War II service and military career. Schmidt responded to the national call to duty following the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941. The twist: Schmidt enlisted at the age of 14 and left home without ever telling his parents. -
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.
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