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  • Stream now with the PBS app + Watch Saturday, Aug. 23, 2025 at 5 p.m. on KPBS TV. Kelly joins Dr. Wendy Suzuki in an animated conversation about the importance of movement in our physical, mental and emotional well-being. This roundtable also features Manoush Zomorodi, journalist and host of NPR’s Ted Radio Hour, and poet and artist Mahogany L. Browne, both of whom share how they incorporate movement into their lives and work.
  • Premieres Monday, Aug. 25, 2025 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. On a small farm in Norway, the Paynes lead a purposefully isolated life, striving to be wild and free. They are self-sufficient, practice home-schooling, and foster a close family dynamic in harmony with nature. But when tragedy strikes, they must adapt to the demands of modern society. Filmmaker Silje Evensmo Jacobsen captures an intimate portrait of love, life, and growing up.
  • Stream now with the PBS app. What do fossilized leaves, an asteroid, and Florida sinkholes have in common? Dr. Kirk Johnson is Sant Director at the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, and has the answers. Kirk oversees one of the largest natural history collections on the planet – and he’s spent his career digging into the story of life on Earth across millions (and billions) of years.
  • Stream now with the PBS app / Watch Saturday, Aug. 23 at 2 p.m. and Sunday, Aug. 24 at 3:30 p.m. on KPBS TV. Take an exhilarating journey through time and dive into the wonder and adventure of dinosaurs. This new special highlights the most exciting and unforgettable moments from the Walking with Dinosaurs series and spotlights six different species of main characters. It also visits with dinosaur-hunter paleontologists in Eastern Montana, the Sahara Desert, Utah, Western Canada and Portugal.
  • Premieres Friday, Aug. 22, 2025 at 8 p.m. on KPBS 2 / PBS app. This powerful two-hour documentary about how a heartbroken woman finds solace is told in five great love stories from the Islamic tradition. At the heart of the film is Ariella Gayotto Hohl, a young Muslim woman grappling with the loss of her beloved father.
  • Stream Season 4 now with KPBS Passport! Premieres Sundays, Aug. 24 - Sept. 28 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. After Season 3’s shocking finale, Dan and Jasper are consumed by grief. Dan throws himself into work whilst the Professor hides in his lectures, avoiding the police at all costs. But Helena, Jasper’s therapist, helps him face back up to his police work and the team tackle some complex and dangerous cases. But through the danger and mystery, love is very much in the air.
  • Premieres Sundays, Aug. 24 - Sept. 28, 2025 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. Join DCI Jess James, DI Sunny Khan, and their team as they investigate the hidden truth behind mysterious human remains found in East London.
  • Stream now with the PBS app / Watch Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV + Monday, Aug. 25 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2. Host Elsa Sevilla takes a look back at some of her favorite segments form the series, beginning with the Vallecitos Stagecoach Stop where weary travelers took respite from the grueling journey of the ButterCoach Lane Route.
  • Stream now with the PBS app. Watch Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025 at 11:30 p.m. on KPBS TV. Following a terrorist attack in Kashmir last spring, India and Pakistan, both nuclear powers, exchanged military strikes in an alarming escalation. Former Foreign Minister Hina Khar joins GZERO World to give Pakistan's perspective and look at where things stand now.
  • The film will be available to stream beginning Monday, Aug. 18, 2025 - Nov. 16, 2025 with the PBS app. Residents of Sunset Park, Brooklyn face rising rents, a legacy of environmental racism, and the loss of the industrial jobs that once sustained their community. When a global developer purchases a massive industrial complex on the waterfront and lays plans for an “innovation district,” a battle erupts over the future of the neighborhood and of New York City itself.

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