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Premieres Friday, Nov. 5, 2021 at 10 p.m. & Sunday, Nov. 7 at 3 p.m. on KPBS 2 / On Demand. An Italian opera company restages an oratorio last performed in 1826. Organized by Mozart’s librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte, the 1826 event changed America’s cultural landscape with the introduction of Italian opera to New York City. -
Premieres Friday, Nov. 5, 2021 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2 + Sunday, Nov. 7 at 2 p.m. on KPBS 2 / On Demand. Learn the long-forgotten story of the 1826 performance that brought Italian opera to New York City, and meet the colorful personalities involved, including a freed slave, opera's first diva, and Mozart's librettist. Filmmaker Martin Scorsese hosts. -
Encore Friday, Feb. 18, 2022 at 8:30 p.m. on KPBS 2 / On Demand. Even after fifty years of accolades, including a Pulitzer Prize at 26 for his Doonesbury comic strip, Garry Trudeau reckons he may have gotten too much too young. And despite her mastery of the written word, Joyce Carol Oates is skeptical about how well conversation can express the complexities of thought and emotions. -
Thursday, July 25, 2024 at 8:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS App + Encore Monday, July 29 at 8:30 p.m. on KPBS 2. Skateboarding originated as a wild activity for Southern California’s youth, and San Diego has since been the hub for its industry and top professionals. The film explores the progressive history of the San Diego skateboard scene: inventing equipment, leading innovation and helping build skateboarding's global participation today. -
Premieres Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2021 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV. A cinematic portrait of the Goodwins, an Inupiat family living above the Arctic Circle in Kotzebue, Alaska. Through observing three generations of one family over four years, the documentary explores what it means to be indigenous in the dramatically changing Arctic. -
Wednesday, July 20, 2022 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV + Sunday, July 24 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2 / On demand now with KPBS Passport! Straddling the night sky, the Milky Way reminds us of our place in the galaxy we call home. NOVA travels back in time to unlock the turbulent story of our cosmic neighborhood. -
Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV + Thursday, Nov. 17 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 20 at 10 p.m. on KPBS 2 / On demand now with KPBS Passport! A decade-long archaeological quest reveals that the oldest stones of Stonehenge originally belonged to a much earlier sacred site -- a stone circle built on a rugged, remote hillside in west Wales. -
Wednesday, March 19, 2025 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with KPBS Passport + Encore Sunday, March 23 at 8 p.m. on KPBS 2. Witness the creation of the waterhole, one of Africa’s greatest wildlife meeting places manufactured by giant elephants and tiny termites. From baboons to dung beetles to chameleons, an entire community of creatures call the waterhole their home. -
Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / On Demand. Marriner Eccles was one of the premier economic thinkers of his time. The Chairman of the Federal Reserve under Presidents Roosevelt and Truman, Marriner was integral to the economic policies of the 1930s and '40s; he was a staunch advocate for the independence of the nation's central bank, and a voice of the New Deal. -
Premieres Monday, Nov. 1, 2021 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / On Demand. Filmmaker Angelo Madsen Minax returns to his rural Michigan hometown after the death of his young niece. Decades of home movies and ethereal narration reflect on struggles with grief and addiction as Madsen examines family, faith, and trans identity. Ultimately, the film asks more questions than it answers, and like the relentless Michigan seasons, the only sure things are time and change.
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