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Stream now with the PBS app / Watch Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV. Change swept Point Loma during the early part of the 20th Century. The Theosophical Society Leaders decided to move into what is now the Point Loma Nazarene University campus. Find out who Katherine Tingley was and learn about her impact on San Diego and the world from 1901-1925. -
Stream now with the PBS app / Watch Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV. We meet “The Betsy Ross of San Diego” who created a lasting tribute to San Diego County. We follow a oceanographic ritual that is unchanged in more than a century; learn the history of National City’s unique Row House, and go to the San Diego Public Library Downtown to see the smallest published book in the world and more! -
Stream now with KPBS Passport / Watch Thursdays, Aug. 14 - 28, 2025 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV. World War II rages across the English Channel and Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle reluctantly remains on duty in his quiet English coastal town. The battle comes to Foyle in its own way as he probes war-related cases of murder, espionage, and treason with his driver Samantha "Sam" Stewart and Detective Sergeant Paul Milner. -
Stream now with the PBS app / Watch Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025 at 11:30 p.m. on KPBS TV. Two things can be true at the same time, says Harvard professor Noah Feldman. Antisemitism in the U.S. is real, and President Trump is using that very real threat to unfairly target elite universities. -
Stream now with KPBS Passport / Watch Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025 at 8 p.m. on KPBS 2. For 200 years, the United States Congress has been one of the country's most important and least understood institutions. Using historical photographs and newsreels, evocative live footage and interviews, Ken Burns chronicles the events that have shaped the first 200 years of congress and, in turn, our country. -
Stream Seasons 1 - 6 now with the PBS app. Chef Yia Vang takes us inside chef's kitchens as they serve up stories of cultural heritage through the universal language of food. -
Stream now with the PBS app. ACL presents an hour with one of the preeminent American singer-songwriters of our time, Jason Isbell, and his band The 400 Unit. Isbell takes his place in ACL history with this revelatory hour, showcasing a new collection of songs from 2023’s acclaimed "Weathervanes," nominated for a trio of 2024 Grammys, including Best Americana Album. -
Stream now with the PBS app / Watch Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025 at 5 p.m. on KPBS 2. Kelly is joined by psychotherapist Esther Perel, journalist Katie Couric and artist Timothy Goodman to engage in an open dialogue about the importance of connection in our lives. Perel’s research and experience sheds light on what we have lost in the digital age, and she offers her advice on reprioritizing the people around us, for their sake and ours. -
Premieres Wednesdays, Sept. 10 - 24, 2025 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app + Encores Thursdays, Sept. 11 - 25 at 9 p.m. and 8 p.m. on KPBS 2 + Sundays, Sept 14 - 28 at 10 p.m. on KPBS 2. This four-hour series is hosted by environmental journalist and TED Climate Editor Gulnaz Khan. Truly cinematic in its approach, the series was filmed in Africa (Mauritania, Senegal and Ethiopia), Japan, Colombia and Peru, and is a deeply personal and often troubling examination of how climate change is impacting some of the most hallowed places on the planet. -
Stream now with the PBS app / Watch Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025 at 8:30 p.m. on KPBS 2. As the Ice Age glaciers melted, prehistoric Europe bloomed with surprisingly sophisticated art. From Ireland to France, Scotland to the Greek Isles, we traverse that mystical world of mighty megaliths, torchlit cave paintings, magical goddesses, and wrinkled bog people. We stand in awe as a massive tomb is radiated by a dramatic beam of sunlight and listen to ritual horns that still play today.
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