PBS America: History, Science & Current Affairs
PBS America 61 episodes Nov 12, 2026
PBS America is a factual channel curated for an international audience from the American Public Broadcasting Service. It features award-winning documentaries covering American history, current affairs, and science. The podcast accompanies the UK broadcast channel and highlights its programming.
Episodes
No Country for the Poor (2017) | Full Documentary
What if democracy fails citizens by not serving them all equally? What if inequality becomes the norm and the most vulnerable citizens are left behind? In Hungary, the government has slashed social benefits and criminalized homelessness, but a group of activists, homeless and middle class, is confronting authorities to defend social justice and their right to be citizens. #PBSAmerica #NoCountryFor
Becoming The Beatles (2012) | Full Documentary
The Beatles endure as the greatest popular music band of all time as their music and lyrics have transcended the decades and influenced generations. Here is the story about the six young men who would--and wouldn’t--become The Beatles. #PBSAmerica #BecomingTheBeatles #TheBeatlesUploaded 03-09-22Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasti
Be Like Others: Transsexuals in Iran (2008) | Full Documentary
In Iran, according to Islamic law, homosexuality is punishable by death. However, sex-change operations are not only legal, they are embraced by a society that accepts male or female, but nothing in between.Uploaded 12-08-23Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winn
World's Greatest Journeys - Water Adventures (2018) | Full Documentary
We are captivated by oceans, rivers and lakes--the power, the flow, the reflective stillness. And as we seek to get closer, we immerse ourselves in an expanding range of aquatic experiences.Uploaded 09-04-23Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American hist
Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise - Out of the Shadows - Episode 1 (2016) | Full Documentary
The series begins at a turning point in American history – the Selma marches and Watts riots that marked a new phase in the Black struggle. 1/4Uploaded 02-10-26Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to ou
George H. W. Bush - Part 1 (2008) | Full Documentary | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
Follow George H.W. Bush from his childhood in Greenwich, CT, into WWII as the youngest combat pilot in the U.S. Navy. After graduating from Yale, lured by a post-war oil boom, the Bushes moved to the oil fields of West Texas where he became a leader of the Texas Republican party, the party that he would lead - and struggle with - as President. 1/2Uploaded 19-08-26Welcome to PBS America, a channel
Journey Into Buddhism - Prajna Earth (2006) | Full Documentary
From PBS, PRAJNA EARTH explores the lost civilization of Angkor in Cambodia, the magnificent Angkor Wat temple and Bali’s sacred landscapes. Narrated by Sharon Stone, the trilogy's second film also shares trance dancers in the jungles of Java and the gigantic seven level mandala mountain of Borobudur and is described as “inducing an inner journey” by Asia Society, New York. #documentary #buddhism
Why Trains Crash (2017) | Full Documentary | NOVA
NOVA dissects some of the most infamous accidents, unraveling how the laws of physics stack the deck against trains, and exploring how creative innovations are bringing about a revival in train tech. #PBSAmerica #NOVA #WhyTrainsCrash #Trains #NOVAUploaded 07-09-22Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factu
The Abolitionists - Part One: 1820s-1838 (2013) | Full Documentary
The abolitionist movement is in disarray and increasing violence raises doubts about the efficacy of its pacifist tactics. Part 1/3Uploaded 29-07-26Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadca
Love Parade (2020) | Full Documentary
What began 1989 as a tiny street parade in Berlin has grown into a million-strong spectacle garnering international attention. In 2010, the “Love Parade” left Berlin for a tour of the Ruhr valley, where 21 attendees died and 652 more were injured and traumatized. "The Trial" reveals the corporate greed and public negligence at the music festival. #PBSAmerica #LoveParade #EDM #DocumentaryUploaded 2
Wild North America - Shadow of the Rockies (2018) | Full Documentary
From bears to beetles, life in the Colorado Rocky Mountain range is as resilient as its wildlife, regardless if they're big or small. Whether in sand, rock or river, wildlife is tested to see if they have what it takes to survive.Uploaded 18-04-26Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed chann
Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise - Move on Up - Episode 2 (2016) | Full Documentary
A look at the divergent paths for African Americans and outbursts of white backlash that emerged in the 1970s and early 1980s. 2/4Uploaded 03-10-26Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcas
Secrets Beneath the Ice (2010) | Full Documentary | NOVA
Is Antarctica headed for a catastrophic meltdown? New evidence of ancient climate change may hold clues.Uploaded 03-06-26Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcast channel weekly highlight
Best of Genealogy Roadshow - Season 1 (2013) | Full Documentary
From immigrant voyages and famous ancestors to murder mysteries and family connections, revisit the journeys in cities across the country as people uncover their family histories.Uploaded 08-10-23Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, curren
Welcome to Mars (2005) | Full Documentary | NOVA
Mission Control and its two robotic explorers face a daunting task to find proof that liquid water, the essential ingredient of life, once existed on Mars.Uploaded 13-05-23Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. S
World's Greatest Islands - Coral Islands (2018) | Full Documentary
The reef systems that gave rise to coral islands support the vast majority of marine species on our planet, but they are under threat. Explore the delicate balance between exploiting and preserving these extraordinary natural wonders.Uploaded 02-07-23Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed c
Hunting the Edge of Space - The Mystery of the Milky Way (2010) | Full Documentary | NOVA
A history of telescopes, from Galileo's refractor to Newton's reflector and beyond, including key discoveries. Take a closer look at recent missions, including the voyage of the Cassini spacecraft to Saturn, the Kepler telescope's search for planets beyond our solar system, and the Herschel Space Observatory's examination of the Milky Way.Uploaded 20-05-26Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated
Genealogy Roadshow - Season 2 - Philadelphia (2015) | Full Documentary
At the Franklin Institute, a man learns what drove his family to Philadelphia changed the course of history, a man may be a Viking descendant, and a young man hopes to confirm his relation to a signer of the Declaration of Independence.Uploaded 13-08-23Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed
Woodrow Wilson - Part 2 (2002) | Full Documentary | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
In part 2 of the miniseries, follow Woodrow Wilson, an intellectual with inflexible moral principles who was ultimately brought down by his search for peace and an incapacitating stroke. From American Experience. Part 2/2Uploaded 26-09-26Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel includ
World's Greatest Journeys - Flights (2018) | Full Documentary
Our experience of the world’s greatest marvels is literally and figuratively elevated when we explore them from the air. Whether you travel by air balloon, helicopter, light aircraft, a grand perspective is always guaranteed.Uploaded 12-02-23Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel in
Seven Wonders of the Muslim World (2009) | Full Documentary
This visually stunning program traces the history and message of Islam by following the journeys of six young pilgrims from across the Muslim world to Mecca. It explores their lives and beliefs as well as the beautiful and historic mosques where they worship. #PBSAmerica #SevenWondersOfTheMuslimWorld #Islam #HistoryUploaded 09-07-22Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international aud
Inside Einstein's Mind (2015) | Full Documentary | NOVA
Retrace Einstein's thought experiments as NOVA reveals the simple but powerful ideas that reshaped our understanding of gravity, illuminating the theory of general relativity—and Einstein's brilliance—as never before.Uploaded 22-04-23Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including
The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer (2009) | Full Documentary | American Experience
In the Spring of 1954, the U.S. government put J. Robert Oppenheimer, the country's preeminent atomic scientist and the man behind the atomic bomb, on trial for national loyalty. The setting was a hearing to determine the status of Opppenheimer's security clearance, but the drama that unfolded was a parade of all the fears of a paranoid Cold War government desperate not to be outgunned.Uploaded 06
Clinton - Episode 1 (2012) | Full Documentary
The bumpy road to the 1992 presidential victory, which was an amazing triumph over repeated scandals and setbacks. In their moment of triumph, the first couple has no way of imagining the turmoil that lies ahead. 1/4Uploaded 12-08-26Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including a
Back to the Moon (2019) | Full Documentary | NOVA
Fifty years after humans first set foot on the Moon, new scientific discoveries are fueling excitement for a return to the lunar surface - this time, to stay. Join the scientists and engineers working to make life on the Moon a reality.Uploaded 25-03-23Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed
Martin Luther: The Idea That Changed the World (2016) | Full Documentary
Martin Luther chronicles the real life story of the seismic upheaval that rocked the western world in the early 1500s. Narrated by Hugh Bonneville (Downtown Abbey), the film brings to life the great adventure story of Luther’s struggle. #PBSAmerica #MartinLuther #Christianity #ProtestantismUploaded 24-09-22Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Publi
Making Stuff - Cleaner (2011) | Full Documentary
Can innovative materials help solve the energy crisis and lead to a sustainable future? 3/4Uploaded 03-07-26Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcast channel weekly highlights at pbsameri
Making Black America: Through the Grapevine - Episode 4 (2022) | Full Documentary
Despite the gains of legal desegregation, this episode reveals a fervent desire for Black spaces and institutions that provide a safe place to debate, organize and celebrate. Host Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores how Black cultural and political movements - from Black Power to Black Twitter - embraced a radical consciousness that championed a new generation.Uploaded 10-10-26Welcome to PBS America,
Wild North America - Glacier Land (2018) | Full Documentary
Life in Glacier Land is anything but easy. Especially when the delicate environment that so many critters call home dwindles away with the ever-heating sun. Global warming doesn’t discriminate. All glacier wildlife is at risk, from the creatures that live around glaciers and especially those living in them.Uploaded 17-04-26Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience fro
Rise of the Robots (2016) Full Documentary | NOVA
Machines with human-like capabilities have long been the stuff of science fiction. Until now. Meet the most advanced humanoid robots as they leave the lab, battle real-world challenges, and endeavor to become part of our everyday lives. #PBSAmerica #RiseOfTheRobots #Robots #NOVAUploaded 14-09-22Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasti
The Civil War's Lost Massacre (2024) | Full Documentary
Originally a supply depot for Union forces in Kentucky, Camp Nelson became the site where 10,000 Black soldiers trained in the Civil War. But in the war’s last months, these soldiers were attacked by bitter Southerners. Their remains have never been found, and a team is dedicated to finding them to memorialize their service and heroism. From Secrets of the Dead.Uploaded 18-09-26Welcome to PBS Amer
World's Greatest Natural Icons - Earth (2021) | Full Documentary
Explore the greatest earth icons -- legendary mountains, monoliths, valleys and deserts -- and the forces that forged them.Uploaded 07-10-23Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcast chann
Doctor Barry - When Dogs Bite (2019) | Full Documentary
After a dog suffers a gruesome bite, Dr. Jessica must make a tough choice. Meanwhile, Dr. Barry rushes offsite to save the life of an owl with a badly injured wing. #PBSAmerica #DoctorBarry #Dogs #VeterinarianUploaded 19-09-22Follow Dr. Barry and his team as they struggle to build the new vet practice in northeastern Canada while using all the resources and friends he can find to help injured and
Making Stuff - Smarter (2011) | Full Documentary
Explore a new generation of ingenious materials, from clothes that monitor your mood to real-life invisibility cloaks. 4/4Uploaded 04-07-26Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcast channe
The American Vice President (2024) | Full Documentary | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
The American Vice President tells the story of the second-highest office in the land, tracing its evolution from a constitutional afterthought to a position of political consequence. Focusing on the fraught period between 1963 and 1974, the film examines the passage and first uses of the 25th Amendment and offers a fresh perspective on succession in the executive branch. From American Experience.U
Decoding da Vinci (2019) | Full Documentary | NOVA
Journey to Florence to discover how Leonardo da Vinci used science, from human dissections to innovative painting techniques, to create his legendary artwork. Learn why Mona Lisa's smile is so captivating—and what it took to create it.Uploaded 15-04-23Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed
Triangle Fire (2011) | Full Documentary | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
The Triangle Fire chronicles the fire that tore through the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City killing one hundred and forty-eight young women and forever changed the relationship between labor and industry in the United States. A relationship that is still in question today as Americans re-examine the balance between the welfare of citizens and the motivations of global capitalism.Uplo
Can We Cool the Planet? (2020) | Full Documentary | NOVA
As global temperatures rise, scientists are exploring solutions from planting trees to sucking carbon out of the air to geoengineering. But would they work? And what are the risks of engineering Earth's climate?Uploaded 18-02-23Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-
The Abolitionists - Part Three: 1854 - Emancipation and Victory (2013) | Full Documentary
The battle between pro-slavery and free-soil contingents rises to fever pitch. 3/3Uploaded 31-07-26Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcast channel weekly highlights at pbsamerica.co.uk
Journey Into Buddhism - Vajra Sky Over Tibet (2006) | Full Documentary
From PBS, this stunning pilgrimage, “beautifully shot in Tibet’s most sacred sites” as described by Variety, received the blessing of the Dalai Lama and bears witness to the indomitable faith of the Tibetan Buddhist community and the imminent threat to its very survival. Traveling through breathtaking Himalayan terrain, this is the third film in John Bush’s Yatra Trilogy. #documentary #buddhism #r
Search for the Super Battery (2017) | Full Documentary | NOVA
Join renowned gadget geek and host David Pogue as he sets out on a quest to discover how batteries work and to uncover what the future has in store for our gadgets, our lives, and even our planet.Uploaded 24-06-26Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning America
Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise - Keep Your Head Up - Episode 3 (2016) | Full Documentary
In the 1980s and 1990s, just as African Americans were becoming more visible than ever, profound fissures within the country and Black America are revealed. 3/4Uploaded 04-10-26Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and scien
Mysteries of Mental Illness - Episode 4 - New Frontiers (2021) | Full Documentary
Explore today’s most cutting-edge treatments, based on the latest understanding of mental illness, through profiles of patients undergoing deep brain stimulation surgery, infusions of ketamine and modern electro-convulsive therapy. 4/4Uploaded 11-07-26Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed
The Race Underground (2017) | Full Documentary | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
In the late 19th century, as America's teeming cities grew increasingly congested, the time had come to replace the nostalgic horse-drawn trolleys with a faster, cleaner, safer, and more efficient form of transportation. Based in part on Doug Most's acclaimed non-fiction book of the same name, The Race Underground tells the dramatic story of an invention that changed the lives of millions.Uploaded
Rise of the Mammals (2019) | Full Documentary | NOVA
A major discovery shows how life came back after an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs. With exclusive access to a fossil trove from the key first million years after impact, the film charts the rise of a new living world from the ashes.Uploaded 23-09-23Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed
World's Greatest Islands - Nearshore Islands (2018) | Full Documentary
Some of the world’s greatest islands are so close that they blend in with the mainland. But regardless of their size and origins, they are often the islands we are drawn to the most, each forging their own unique identity.Uploaded 27-08-23Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel inclu
The Human Spark - Brain Matters (2010) | Full Documentary
In the third program, viewers literally peer into the brain with high-tech imaging, looking for the human spark. The circuitry that provides us with language is closely tied to another unique human skill, our ability to make and use complex tools. But surprisingly, we discover that the essential human spark lies in a brain region that fires most fiercely when we are doing nothing at all. 3/3Upload
Making Black America: Through the Grapevine - Episode 1 (2022) |Full Documentary
As Black people fought for full citizenship, this episode explores how free African Americans exercised their self-determination by building communities, establishing schools, and creating associations that would become the foundational pillars of Black America. Host Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the organizations, networks and artistic impression created by and for Black people. 1/4Uploaded 07-
Henry Ford (2013) | Full Documentary | American Experience
An absorbing story of a farm boy who became the most influential American innovator of the 20th century, and an incisive look at the birth of the American auto industry with its long history of struggles between labor and management. This is a thought-provoking reminder of how Ford's automobile forever changed the way we work and live, and our ideas about individuality, freedom and possibility. #P
Doctor Barry - Barry’s Big Day (2019) | Full Documentary
Dr. Barry prepares for his biggest day yet as he opens his own veterinary clinic. But first, he must help a Cuban rescue dog--and go to extreme measures to try to save a pair of injured fawns. #PBSAmerica #DoctorBarry #VeterinarianUploaded 22-08-22Follow Dr. Barry and his team as they struggle to build the new vet practice in northeastern Canada while using all the resources and friends he can fin
World's Greatest Islands - Island Arks (2018) | Full Documentary
Cut off from continents, remote islands have become floating arks, attracting migrating species and forging new ones. Take a privileged glimpse into the secret lives of the rare and exotic species that inhabit these lost worlds.Uploaded 11-06-23Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel
Making Black America: Through the Grapevine - Episode 3 (2022) | Full Documentary
In this episode, the Great Depression devastates America’s economy and brings Black America to its knees. To survive, the Black community uses social networks to navigate the oppressive realities of Jim Crow. Host Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores how social networks formed the cultural, economic and political foundation of the Civil Rights Movement which would transform America’s race relations. 3/
Nazi Town, USA (2024) | Full Documentary | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
Nazi Town, USA tells the story of the German American Bund, a pro-Nazi group which in the 1930s had scores of chapters across the country, representing what many believe was a real threat of fascist subversion in the United States. They held joint rallies with the KKK and ran summer camps for children centered around Nazi ideology and imagery, melding patriotic values with virulent anti-Semitism.U
Giraffes: The Forgotten Giants (2014) | Full Documentary
An exciting look at scientist trying to solve the last pieces of code about how giraffes communicate. Meet giraffes living in the wild in Africa and in captivity in North America, as well as the scientists who are tracing the life cycle of the grand animals from birth to death. #PBSAmerica #GiraffesTheForgottenGiants #GiraffesUploaded 06-08-22Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an intern
The Poison Squad (2020) | Full Documentary | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
Based on the book by Deborah Blum, The Poison Squad tells the story of government chemist Dr. Harvey Wiley, who took on powerful food manufacturers and their allies. Following Wiley’s unusual experiments and tireless advocacy, the film charts the path of the forgotten man who laid the groundwork for U.S. consumer protection laws, and ultimately the creation of the FDA.Uploaded 22-07-26Welcome to P
Look Who's Driving (2019) | Full Documentary | NOVA
Tech giants and car manufacturers alike are developing self-driving cars—and some of them are already on public roads. But what must computers be capable of to truly take the wheel? And could they eventually be safer than human drivers?Uploaded 25-02-23Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (2014) | Full Documentary | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
Long before Paul Newman and Robert Redford immortalized them on screen, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid captivated Americans from coast to coast. In the 1890s, their exploits robbing banks and trains in the West - and then seemingly vanishing into thin air - became national news and the basis of rumors and myth. But who were Robert Leroy Parker and Harry Alonzo Longabaugh?Uploaded 15-05-26W
The Cancer Detectives (2024) | Full Documentary | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
The Cancer Detectives tells the untold story of the first-ever war on cancer and the coalition of people who fought tirelessly to save women from cervical cancer: a Greek immigrant, Dr. George Papanicolau; his intrepid wife, Mary; Japanese-born artist, Hashime Murayama; Dr. Helen Dickens, an African American OBGYN in Philadelphia and an entirely new class of female scientists.Uploaded 15-07-26Welc
Megastorm Aftermath (2013) | Full Documentary | NOVA
In October 2012, Superstorm Sandy cut a path of devastation across the Caribbean and the East Coast of the United States, killing hundreds and causing tens of billions of dollars in damage. One year after Sandy's deadly strike, NOVA investigates the critical question raised by this historic storm: What can we do to prepare ourselves for the next Sandy? #PBSAmerica #MegastormAftermath #NOVA #Docume
Genealogy Roadshow - Season 1 - St. Louis (2015) | Full Documentary
At Union Station, a musician hopes to find connections to a famous St. Louis jazz composer, two sisters explore links to a survivor of the legendary Donner Party, and an Italian-American woman finds out if she is related to Italian royalty.Uploaded 28-05-23Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focu
Woodrow Wilson - Part 1 (2002) | Full Documentary | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
Woodrow Wilson led America into World War I, which threatened all that he cherished. Recall the transformation of a history professor into one of America's greatest presidents. From American Experience. Part 1/2Uploaded 25-09-26Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-
Not Done: Women Remaking America (2021) | Full Documentary
The women’s movement has gone mainstream: from the Women’s March to Black Lives Matter to #MeToo. Premiering amid a pandemic and widespread social upheaval, NOT DONE shines a light on today’s feminists paving the way for true equality.Uploaded 22-07-23Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed
Genealogy Roadshow - Season 1 - Austin (2013) | Full Documentary
An African American Heisman Trophy winner uncovers a history of land ownership in 1920s Texas. A Texas woman learns of her ancestor’s Civil War affiliation and the tragedy it wrought. Ties to two Texas governors surprises one guest.Uploaded 26-03-23Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed cha
Genealogy Roadshow - Season 2 - New Orleans (2015) | Full Documentary
A couple whose ancestors are from the same Italian town explore if they’re related; a woman wants to find out who committed a gruesome murder in her ancestor’s past, a woman discovers the journey her ancestor took on the path to freedom.Uploaded 09-09-23Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focusse
Wild North America - Rise of the Redwood Giants (2018) | Full Documentary
Coastal California is home to one of the world’s oldest and most iconic residents -- the redwoods. These old timers give shelter to an exuberant cast of animal characters. Thousands of convergent ladybugs use their roots to mate and hibernate while the wandering salamander can spend its entire life in the redwood canopy.Uploaded 16-04-26Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an internationa
Family of Us: A PBS American Portrait Story (2021) | Full Documentary
Whether we came together through blood or through love, by genetics or by choice, we recognize the value of our families. Family of Us: A PBS American Portrait Story paints a picture of today’s American family and the ways it defines us.Uploaded 29-04-23Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focusse
Day the Dinosaurs Died (2017) | Full Documentary | NOVA
Investigate how an asteroid vanquished the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. Join scientists as they drill into the impact crater and, for the first time, reconstruct the hell on earth that unfolded in the minutes, hours and months after the impact.Uploaded 16-09-26Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factu
World's Greatest Islands - Islands Nations (2018) | Full Documentary
Though many island nations are small in stature, they have punched well above their weight on the global stage. Some are rooted in ancient history, while others are only just beginning to realize their full potential.Uploaded 16-07-23Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including
School of the Future (2016) | Full Documentary | NOVA
Once the envy of the world, American schools are now in trouble. Can the science of learning, including new insights from neuroscientists, psychologists, and educators, reveal how kids' brains work and show us how to engage growing minds? #PBSAmerica #SchoolOfTheFuture #EducationUploaded 28-09-22Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcast
Mars: Dead or Alive (2003) | Full Documentary | NOVA
This special recounts the dramatic design, testing and launch of two crafts headed to Mars, ending with the first probe's historic entry, descent and landing on Earth's nearest planetary neighbor. #PBSAmerica #MarsDeadOrAlive #NOVA #spaceUploaded 21-09-22Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focuss
Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise - Touch the Sky - Episode 4 (2016) | Full Documentary
Bringing the story to the present day, Professor Gates celebrates how far African Americans have come toward equality and raises hard questions about the obstacles that remain. 4/4Uploaded 05-10-26Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, curre
The Big Burn (2015) | Full Documentary | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
This is the dramatic story of a catastrophic 1910 wildfire that defined the fledgling U.S. Forest Service and the nation's fire policy for the rest of the 20th century and beyond. In the current American landscape, The Big Burn provides a cautionary tale of heroism and sacrifice, arrogance and greed, hubris and, ultimately, humility, in the face of nature's frightening power.Uploaded 28-08-26Welco
The Smartest Machine on Earth (2011) | Full Documentary | NOVA
Scientists are edging closer to augmented human intelligence with machines like “Watson,” a computing system that is gearing up to compete on the game show JEOPARDY!. Will Watson be able to compute its way to victory? #PBSAmerica #TheSmartestMachineOnEarth #NOVAUploaded 24-08-22Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS.
Genealogy Roadshow - Season 1 - San Francisco (2013) | Full Documentary
A woman learns that a 19th-century murder claimed the life of an ancestor. An Irish-American woman discovers how an earthquake brought her grandparents together. And a Chinese-American woman’s ties to Chinatown gangster “Big Jim” Chin.Uploaded 26-02-23Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed
Making Stuff - Smaller (2011) | Full Documentary
Future technologies will depend on tiny stuff -- from silicon chips to micro-robots that probe the human body. 2/4Uploaded 02-07-26Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcast channel weekly
Something in the Air (2019) | Full Documentary
Pollution is killing tens of thousands of people every day around the world and is a major killer everywhere, even places we think of as safe. It causes respiratory diseases, can change how our DNA functions, and may cause dementia. How unsafe is the pollution we can’t see? Explore this and other questions about the most precious resource we have--air. #PBSAmerica #SomethingInTheAir #Pollution #En
Chernobyl: The New Evidence - Episode 1 (2021) | Full Documentary
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