PBS America: History, Science & Current Affairs

Episodes

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  Driving While Black (2020) | Full Documentary 28.10.2026 2h 5m

  Discover how the advent of the automobile brought new freedoms and new perils for African Americans on the road in this deep look into the dynamics of race, space and mobility in America over time.Uploaded 30-09-23Welcome 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 channel weekly highlights at pbsamerica.co.uk FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  No Country for the Poor (2017) | Full Documentary 28.10.2026 58m

  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 #NoCountryForThePoor #Poverty #DocumentaryUploaded 30-07-22Welcome 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 FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Be Like Others: Transsexuals in Iran (2008) | Full Documentary 28.10.2026 1h 19m

  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-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcast channel weekly highlights at pbsamerica.co.uk FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  George H. W. Bush - Part 1 (2008) | Full Documentary | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE 28.10.2026 1h 57m

  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 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 FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Journey Into Buddhism - Prajna Earth (2006) | Full Documentary 28.10.2026 1h 29m

  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 #asia #religionUploaded 01-08-22Called “eye-opening and essential if you have an interest in Eastern spirituality” by the Boston Globe and an “illuminating meditation” by Variety, these visually stunning documentaries are cinematic pilgrimages to legendary places in Southeast Asia and Tibet, including the spiritual wonders of Laos, Thailand, Burma, Bali, Cambodia, Java and Central Tibet.Welcome 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 FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Clinton - Episode 4 (2012) | Full Documentary 28.10.2026 58m

  Clinton sails into his second term as the economy is booming and American prestige and power are at an all-time high. But Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky becomes public. 4/4Uploaded 15-08-26Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcast channel weekly highlights at pbsamerica.co.uk FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Clinton - Episode 2 (2012) | Full Documentary 28.10.2026 58m

  A look at the tumultuous first two years of the Clinton presidency, years that see the beginnings of the Whitewater scandal, the shocking death of White House Counsel Vince Foster and the humiliating defeat of Hillary’s healthcare bill. 2/4Uploaded 13-08-26Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcast channel weekly highlights at pbsamerica.co.uk FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Genealogy Roadshow - Season 2 - New Orleans (2015) | Full Documentary 28.10.2026 1h

  At the New Orleans Board of Trade, a local man seeks to recover essential history washed away in Hurricane Katrina, a woman discovers links to both sides of the Civil War, and one man explores a link to the famous New Orleans Voodoo Queen.Uploaded 25-06-23Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcast channel weekly highlights at pbsamerica.co.uk FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Mirror, Mirror on the Wall (2020) | Full Documentary 28.10.2026 1h

  A plastic surgeon and self-proclaimed artist seizes the spotlight for daring plastic-surgery performances. "Mirror, Mirror on the Wall" is a tale about vanity and loneliness, and an investigation into our beauty-obsessed world, putting selfie culture on the operating table and calling into question the impact this is having on us all -- both as individuals and society. #PBSAmerica #MirrorMirrorOnTheWall #SocialMedia #DocumentaryUploaded 03-08-22Welcome 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 FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Genealogy Roadshow - Season 2 - St Louis (2015) | Full Documentary 28.10.2026 1h

  At the historic public library, a mystery writer discovers her mother has hidden a life-changing secret, a woman finds out if she is descended from the pirate Blackbeard, and a mother and daughter seek connections to a famous author.Uploaded 02-09-23Welcome 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 channel weekly highlights at pbsamerica.co.uk FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Clinton - Episode 3 (2012) | Full Documentary 28.10.2026 58m

  Clinton wins the 1996 election in a landslide, pulling off one of the greatest turnarounds in political history. But events have been set in motion that will soon divide the country and nearly destroy Clinton’s presidency. 3/4Uploaded 14-08-26Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcast channel weekly highlights at pbsamerica.co.uk FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  The Secret of Tuxedo Park (2018) | Full Documentary | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE 28.10.2026 1h

  In the fall of 1940, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill delivered his country's most valuable military secret - a revolutionary radar component - to a Wall Street tycoon, Alfred Lee Loomis. Using his connections, his money, and his brilliant scientific mind, Loomis and his team of scientists developed radar technology that played a more decisive role than any other weapon in World War II.Uploaded 09-09-26Welcome 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-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcast channel weekly highlights at pbsamerica.co.uk FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  The Street Project (2022) | Full Documentary 28.10.2026 59m

  Worldwide, more than a million people die in traffic-related crashes each year. Half of those deaths are pedestrians and cyclists. The Street Project is an inspiring story about a movement to reclaim our largest public spaces, our streets. #PBSAmerica #TheStreetProject #Traffic #CarAccidentsUploaded 25-08-22Welcome 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 FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Chernobyl: The New Evidence - Episode 2 (2021) | Full Documentary 28.10.2026 52m

  Using previously classified KGB documents, see how far Soviet leaders were willing to go to cover up the Chernobyl disaster. We hear first-hand accounts from those who survived the blast, including Oleksiy Ananenko, who braved radioactive waters to prevent a deadlier second explosion and Maryna Sivets, whose unborn child’s life was put at risk. 2/2Uploaded 06-08-26Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcast channel weekly highlights at pbsamerica.co.uk FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  The Harvest: Integrating Mississippi's Schools (2023) | Full Documentary | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE 28.10.2026 1h 54m

  When the Supreme Court issued an order to fully and immediately desegregate schools in October 1969, Leland Mississippi finally met the demand put forth in the 1954 Brown v Board of Education decision. In the fall of 1970, a group of children entered school as part of the first class of Black and white students who would attend all 12 grades together.Uploaded 17-07-26Welcome 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 FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  This is Bob Hope (2017) | Full Documentary 28.10.2026 2h

  During his eight-decade career, Bob Hope was the only performer to achieve top-rated success in every form of mass entertainment: Vaudeville, Broadway, movies, radio, television, popular song and personal appearances. American Masters explores the entertainer's life with unprecedented access to his personal archives and clips from his classic films.Uploaded 30-09-26Welcome 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-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcast channel weekly highlights at pbsamerica.co.uk FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Space Men (2016) | Full Documentary | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE 28.10.2026 59m

  On an August morning in 1960, Air Force Captain Joseph Kittinger stepped out of a helium balloon 20 miles above Earth, hurtling down at over 400 miles per hour. Space Men tells the little-known story of the men whose scientific experiments laid critical groundwork for NASA's manned space program, a decade before President Kennedy committed the nation to sending a man to the moon.Uploaded 26-06-26Welcome 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 highlights at pbsamerica.co.uk FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Genealogy Roadshow - Season 1 - Historical Society of Pennsylvania (2015) | Full Documentary 28.10.2026 1h

  One woman’s ancestor may have sparked historic labor laws, a pastor may have an outlaw in her family tree, a woman learns about slave genealogy, and another woman learns her ancestor may have helped others escape the Holocaust.Uploaded 30-07-23Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcast channel weekly highlights at pbsamerica.co.uk FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Becoming The Beatles (2012) | Full Documentary 28.10.2026 59m

  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 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 FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise - Out of the Shadows - Episode 1 (2016) | Full Documentary 28.10.2026 1h 2m

  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 our UK broadcast channel weekly highlights at pbsamerica.co.uk FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices