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Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025 at 1:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. Milk Street transforms into a steakhouse to explore mouth-watering steak recipes. -
Friday, Feb. 21, 2025 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS app. Willie Nelson returns to the AUSTIN CITY LIMITS stage alongside family and friends, for a Texas-sized concert to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his pilot taping. -
Friday, Feb. 21, 2025 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. Learn about jazz virtuoso and screen superstar Hazel Scott, the first Black American to have their own television show. An early civil rights pioneer, Scott faced down the Red Scare at the risk of losing her career and was a champion for equality. -
Premieres Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app + Encore Sunday, Feb. 23 at 2 pm. on KPBS TV and 9 p.m. on KPBS 2. New archaeological finds in Pompeii are revealing that the city, hailed as a sophisticated jewel of the Roman Empire, hid a very dark side. As the evidence unfolds, a much more complex picture of the fated city comes into view. -
Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. meets actors Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard—a married couple who whose ancestors had some remarkable similarities. Telling stories of soldiers, settlers and criminals, Gates compels the pair to reimagine their family trees. -
Premieres Monday, Feb. 17, 2025 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. A filmmaker discovers her architect father's renowned building in Sao Paulo-a 24-story tall modernist icon known as "Pele de Vidro" (Skin of Glass) is inhabited by unhoused people, setting her on a journey to reckon with Brazil's harsh inequality. -
Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025 at 4:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. Mainz unfolds like a delightful Riesling. Samantha explores the ruins of a Roman amphitheater and visits Eva Vollmer Winery. She enjoys German wine at Weinhaus Loesch, then travels to Wiesbaden to taste hot chocolate at Kunder Chocolateria. At the Wiesbaden Museum, she admires the largest Art Nouveau collection. Finally, she tours the fairy-tale town of Rothenburg. -
Premieres Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. Investigating China's rule over Tibet. With footage from inside the region, how the Communist regime controls Tibet's Buddhist population, and the battle over the succession of its spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama. -
Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025 at 11:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. At the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Ian Bremmer talks to Finland's president Alexander Stubb about how Europe must adapt to U.S. President Donald Trump's return to power. Then, the changing politics of fashion. -
Wednesday, Feb, 12, 2025 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS app. Black Panthers co-founder Huey Newton is accused of murdering a white policeman after a car stop in 1967 Oakland. A landmark trial ensues and Newton's defense team calls out racism in the judicial system. With a death penalty looming, a shocking verdict is delivered that still reverberates today.
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