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Wednesday, March 8, 2023 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / Watch now with the PBS App. The film takes viewers back 65 years to August 1955, when a 14-year-old African American boy whistled at a white woman in a grocery store in Money, Mississippi. Emmett Till, a teen from Chicago, didn't understand that he had broken the unwritten laws of the Jim Crow South until three days later, when on August 28 two white men dragged him from his bed in the dead of night, beat him brutally and then shot him in the head. -
Encore Sundays, Nov. 17 - Dec. 22, 2024 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream the series now with KPBS Passport! Imelda Staunton and Francesca Annis star in a mystery about late-life romance. Claudie Blakley, Russell Tovey, and Lydia Leonard play the grown-up children of Annis’s character. Stephen Rae is her new gentleman friend. Staunton stars as the inquisitive next-door neighbor. And David Bamber is the detective who tries to work out whether an unfortunate incident was an accident or a heinous crime. -
Saturdays, June 22 - July 27, 2024 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream Seasons 1 - 3 now with KPBS Passport! Follow the British Prime Minister and his Cabinet Office Briefing Room A (COBRA) committee, comprised of leading contingency planners and senior politicians, as they navigate the difficulties in overcoming a major national crisis. -
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Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023 at 9:30 p.m.and Saturday, Jan. 14 at 3:30 p.m. on KPBS TV + Monday, Jan. 16 at 9:30 p.m. on KPBS 2 / On demand now with the PBS Video app. Today we are in Tepoztlan, a picturesque town south of Mexico City. We visit the marketplace, sample the ancient foods, and see the sights. Back in Tijuana, Jorge takes a visit to an ice cream shop called Tepoznieves. We visit El Potrero a restaurant with traditional food of Mexico. -
Thursday, June 26, 2025 at 8:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS app + Encore Monday, June 30 at 8:30 p.m. on KPBS 2. We meet renowned plant explorer and succulent breeder Kelly Griffin. Griffin has searched for the rare and beautiful on nearly every continent, including our own. -
Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / On demand now with KPBS Passport! Just as handwritten records changed how societies work, the printing press transformed the spread of information, igniting the Industrial Revolution. How did technologies–from pen to paper to printing press—make it all possible?
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