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  • Sunday, Nov. 10, 2024 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with KPBS Passport! Find out if one of history’s greatest cold cases—the imprisonment of two princes in the Tower of London—can finally be solved. Were the boys murdered by their uncle King Richard III for the throne? Or was it a massive conspiracy to hide the truth?
  • Premieres Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2023 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS App. With the help of scientists and genealogists, filmmaker Byron Hurt and his family members search for their ancestors. Follow their journey as they hunt for new details of a history long obscured by the enduring legacy of slavery.
  • Tuesday, July 16, 2024 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with KPBS Passport! Billie Jean King and seven female sports icons discuss how Title IX and their own achievements changed the course of women’s sports. Features Nancy Lieberman, Chloe Kim, Naomi Osaka, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Julie Foudy, Diana Flores and Suni Lee.
  • Premieres Monday, Nov.20, 2023 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS App. Reflect on aging and transformation over the course of 16 years. This film blends humor and sadness between mother and daughter that blooms into an affectionate portrait of love, care, and a relationship transformed.
  • Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024 at 9:50 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Stream now with the PBS App. The award-winning film from the last international journalists inside the Russian siege of Mariupol. An extraordinary account, seen through the lens of the AP's Mstyslav Chernov and two colleagues documenting the atrocities and their own escape.
  • Premieres Monday, Nov. 20, 2023 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS App. Discover delightful Dallas treasures, including an 1830 first printing of The Book of Mormon, Dallas memorabilia & Tennessee sampler, and a Ruth, Mantle & Maris-signed baseball. Which Dallas discovery's top value doubled to $100,000?
  • Premieres Saturday, Nov. 18, 2023 at 5 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Stream now with the PBS App. U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg speaks about the connection between transportation and a person’s ability to flourish in America. Propelled by the values of equity, safety, and innovation, Buttigieg shares what it means to build a world-leading transportation system that meets the needs of all Americans, especially in the face of growing climate and economic shifts.
  • Stream now with KPBS Passport! Test cook Erin McMurrer makes host Bridget Lancaster Roast Whole Turkey Breast with Gravy. Gadget critic Lisa McManus shares her favorite mops. Test cook Dan Souza and host Julia Collin Davison unlock the secrets to perfect Oatmeal Dinner Rolls.
  • Stream the 4-part series now with KPBS Passport / Watch "The War of Independence" episode Tuesday, Aug. 5 at 11:30 p.m. on KPBS TV. Throughout its history, Mexico has faced a series of epic, violent struggles that have defined its culture and identity. The series looks at this often-overlooked history of the United States' neighbor. This is a chronicle of conquest, with all its bloody and dramatic consequences − not just of battles and wars, but of feuds, shifting alliances, trickery, executions, assassination and exile.
  • Thursday, Nov. 28, 2024 at 5 a.m. and Saturday, Nov. 30 at 10:30 a.m. on KPBS 2 / Stream now with the PBS app. This films tells the story of what some historians might call the first “official, English-speaking” Thanksgiving held in the Americas. Through dramatic re-enactment and interviews from Graham Woodlief, a descendant of Capt. John Woodlief, Karla K. Bruno, author and biographer of Dr. Lyon Tyler, Chief Stephen Adkins of the Chickahominy Tribe, and several other individuals, it challenges the long-held belief that America's first Thanksgiving was held in Plymouth, Mass., and chronicles how the discovery of the Nibley papers led to a friendly rivalry between Virginia and Massachusetts about who can rightfully lay claim to the birth of America's Thanksgiving holiday.

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