Celebrate the 25th anniversary of the landmark series in September 2015 with this in-depth overview of the iconic documentary. See video clips and interviews with Ken Burns, Geoffrey Ward, Ric Burns, Buddy Squires and others.
In GREAT SCENIC RAILWAY JOURNEYS: 30TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL, viewers gain access to some of America's best railway adventures, from the Rocky Mountaineer to the Skyrail. More than just a tour, these stories offer a glimpse into our nation's railroad history and explore how railroads defined the spirit of North America, creating a new industry and rewriting the history of transportation.
AMERICA'S HOME COOKING: SWEETS celebrates everyone's favorite course - dessert! Host Chris Fennimore walks you through some of his favorite, mouth-watering recipes like Kentucky Derby pie and loaded chocolate biscotti. Learn the tradition around the oh-so-easy Nana's Italian love cake and get instructions on how to make the perfect truffle. Whichever recipe you choose to make in your own kitchen, you'll satisfy any sweet tooth!
TIME HAS MANY VOICES is the untold story of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe of the San Francisco Bay area. Decimated by Spanish colonizers in the late 1700s, an Ohlone village is rediscovered through cutting edge archeology, revealing surprising details about the life ways of pre-contact ancestors. Now, modern day members of the Muwekma Ohlone are honoring their past with these findings, laying claim to their existence, and paving the way for their future.
SEARCHING FOR SEQUOYAH spans two countries and three Cherokee nations, leading viewers on a journey through the life and death of Sequoyah. This hour-long documentary allows viewers to learn more about Sequoyah through the written language he created for the Cherokee people, interviews with his descendants, cave writings depictions, and more.
From 1907 until his death more than 50 years later, ethnologist John Peabody Harrington crisscrossed the U.S., chasing the voices of the last speakers of Native America's dying languages. Moving from one tribal community to the next, he collaborated with the last speakers to document every finite detail before their languages were lost forever. CHASING VOICES chronicles Harrington's work and traces the impact of his exhaustive research on Native communities working to restore the language of their ancestors.
PBS NewsHour provides in-depth analysis of current events with a news summary, live studio interviews and discussions of domestic and international issues. Amna Nawaz and Geoff Bennett co-anchor.
Christiane Amanpour leads wide-ranging, in-depth conversations with global thought leaders and cultural influencers on the issues and trends impacting the world each day, from politics, business and technology to arts, science and sports.
Explore popular detox regimens and separate fact from fiction to improve your overall health and well-being. Alejandro Junger, M.D., often called the "Father of Detox," provides practical tools to support and rejuvenate our bodies.
Raising mentally strong kids and young adults is the most important work parents and grandparents ever do. Yet, parenting seems harder now than ever before with social media, digital addictions, and the epidemic rise of anxiety, depression, and ADHD In this program, psychiatrist and founder of Amen Clinics Dr. Daniel Amen will will share 7 Core Conversations to help parents and grandparents raise happy, responsible, and mentally strong kids.
Join the iconic duo and the more 500,000 fans who came out for this once-in-a-lifetime 1981 benefit concert for the world's most famous urban park. Featuring the pairs' greatest hits from "Mrs. Robinson" to "Sounds of Silence."
Explore the vast repertoire of these musical theater pioneers in a star-studded concert featuring Aaron Tveitt, Patrick Wilson and more performing from shows like "Carousel," "South Pacific," "The King and I," "The Sound of Music" and more.
Join the financial industry expert as she delivers pragmatic money advice in a straightforward way. She also provides practical tools so anyone can begin taking corrective action no matter the current state of their finances.
THE FOUR PHANTOMS IN CONCERT features Brent Barrett, John Cudia, Franc D'Ambrosio and Ciaran Sheehan who, cumulatively, have performed the iconic role over 6,000 times. The show features solo and group numbers celebrating the music of Broadway and more, as well as a stunning finale paying tribute to The Phantom of the Opera. Kaley Ann Voorhees, who played the role of Christine in the Broadway production, is a special guest star.
The Flying Tigers were heroic U.S. military pilots who fought in China during World War 2. The "Chinese American Tigers" were young men from "Chinatown" neighborhoods, sent by the Army to China as well. Explore their lives and legacies, and why their stories are now being celebrated again.
Narrated by actor Kevin Bacon, DAD'S SECRET WAR: FRANCE 1944 focuses on two top-secret World War II organizations - the OSS (Office of Strategic Services) and the British SOE (Special Operations Executive) , American and British organizations responsible for silent, unseen, highly classified missions of critical importance to defeating the Nazis. The documentary shares the riveting, true story of an American who joined the British SOE and was parachuted into France with a small team just after D-Day to organize the French Resistance into a cohesive army. The mission was to stop Germany's most feared troops from reaching Normandy in the days after the D-Day landings of June 6, 1944. While missions such as this were classified as "Top Secret" by the American OSS and "Most, Most Secret" by Britain's SOE, some records were partially declassified in 1998, revealing the collective courage, risks, failures, and successes of the brave men and women who volunteered to be secret agents.
Venture to the Pacific Northwest to capture the stories of ongoing traditions and perseverance of its original inhabitants. For the tribes of this region, water is life. The rivers that crisscross this land were the highways for trade and fresh water grocery stores for thousands of years. Today, tribes celebrate their cultures by participating in a yearly canoe journey, an opportunity for people to gather and travel to all the places their ancestors once inhabited. From totem poles, to language preservation to traditional crafts, host Chris Eyre (Cheyenne Arapaho) discovers the wilds of the North.
Discover the cosmological secrets behind America's ancient cities. Scientists explore some of the world's largest pyramids and 3D-scan a lost city of monumental mounds on the Mississippi River; native elders reveal ancient powers of the sky.
Discover how resistance, survival and revival are revealed through an empire of horse-mounted Comanche warriors, secret messages encoded in Aztec manuscript and a grass bridge in the Andes that spans mountains and centuries of time.
A viral joke video catapults Hayden Pedigo - a 24-year-old artist and musician in Amarillo, TX - into the spotlight and prompts him to make a surprise bid for city council. With his goal of upending the status quo and ousting corrupt incumbent politicians, KID CANDIDATE follows Pedigo's unorthodox campaign while unpacking issues of race, income inequality and gentrification in small-town America.
A Native American girl from an isolated Blackfeet reservation uses her basketball skills as a ticket to a college education and the opportunity to give back to her people. Her chief described her as "a warrior."