PBS Specials

  • Premiered: Feb 1964
  • Episodes: 464
  • Followers: 15
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  • Documentary

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Season 2022
2022x2
Unsettled History: America, China and the Doolittle Tokyo Raid
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Apr 07, 2022
Unsettled History: America, China, and the Doolittle Tokyo Raid examines a key moment in American/Chinese history, exploring how the two sides remember this shared event in different .. show full overview
2022x2
Betrayed: Surviving an American Concentration Camp
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May 02, 2022
Discover the story of a group of Japanese Americans and their incarceration by the U.S. government during World War II. Through the compelling voices of survivors of Minidoka, a .. show full overview
2022x3
From Wall Street to Bay Street
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May 02, 2022
Examine and compare the financial and banking systems of the United States and Canada. The basis for both financial systems was laid by the revolutionary founding father Alexander .. show full overview
2022x4
Ghosts of Amistad: In the Footsteps of the Rebels
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May 23, 2022
Retrace the path of the 53 Africans who rebelled against their captors and seized the slave schooner Amistad in 1839. Their goal: to visit the 10 villages where the Amistad rebels once .. show full overview
2022x5
Hi-Neighbor! The Story of the Narragansett Brewing Company
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May 25, 2022
Hi-Neighbor! explores the history of one of Rhode Island’s most famous icons. Founded by German immigrants in 1890, the Narragansett Brewing Company grew from a humble craft brewer to .. show full overview
2022x6
The Street Project
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Aug 25, 2022
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.
2022x7
Downwinders and the Radioactive West
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Oct 03, 2022
In the 1950s and ‘60s, the U.S. government conducted a series of nuclear tests in the Nevada desert. The resulting fallout would kick off a decades-long debate over cancer rates, the .. show full overview
2022x7
Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom
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Oct 04, 2022
Go beyond the legend and meet the inspiring woman who repeatedly risked her own life and freedom to liberate others from slavery. Born 200 years ago in Maryland, Harriet Tubman was a .. show full overview
2022x8
Becoming Frederick Douglass
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Oct 11, 2022
Discover how a man born into slavery became one of the most influential voices for democracy in American history. Oscar-nominated filmmaker Stanley Nelson explores the role Douglass played in securing the right to freedom for African Americans.

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