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  • Thursdays, April 21 - May 12, 2022 at 8 p.m. on KPBS 2 / On demand with KPBS Passport. Explore the resurgence of iconic wildlife and natural processes across Europe's most breathtaking landscapes, from the Arctic Circle to rich river wetlands, from deep forests to rugged mountain peaks.
  • Encore Wednesdays, Dec. 14, 2022 and Jan. 11 and 25, 2023 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / On demand now with the PBS Video app. Picking up where he left off in NOVA’s popular special, "Hunting the Elements," David Pogue sets out on a worldwide quest to find the key molecules and chemical reactions that have paved the way for human civilization, life, and even the universe as we know it.
  • Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2023 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with KPBS Passport! Travel to the mountains of Chile to discover the secrets of the puma, the area's biggest and most elusive predator. Discover how this mountain lion survives and follow the dramatic fate of a puma mother and her cubs.
  • Encore Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV / On Demand. The untold story of the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic and how China responded. Chinese scientists and doctors, international disease experts and health officials reveal missed opportunities to suppress the outbreak, and lessons for the world.
  • Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with KPBS Passport! Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the roots of actor Jane Lynch and comedian Jim Gaffigan, revealing the Irish American experience through their families.
  • Encore Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2 / On demand now with KPBS Passport! The film tells the story of Greenwood, an extraordinary Black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that prospered during the 1920s and 30s despite rampant and hostile segregation. Torn apart in 1921 by one of the worst racially-motivated massacres in the nation’s history, the neighborhood was known as “Black Wall Street.”
  • Encore Wednesdays, Feb. 5 and 12, 2025 at 8 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Stream now with KPBS Passport! An intimate four-hour series from Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the 400-year-old story of the black church in America, the changing nature of worship spaces, and the men and women who shepherded them from the pulpit, the choir loft, and church pews.
  • Stream or tune in Monday, Feb. 1, 2021 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV
  • Monday, Sept. 4, 2023 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS App. Blazing hot Tucson treasures include a Mexican charro saddle,Gaston Chaissac artwork, and a 1956 Olympics USA Basketball memorabilia. But has the marketplace cooled down since they were appraised in 2006? Not for one $65,000-$110,000 find!
  • Saturday, Sept. 18, 2021 at 1:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / On Demand

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