NHPBS Passport Update - December 13, 2021
What's Arriving and Leaving NHPBS Passport
New Titles Coming to NHPBS Passport
Antiques Roadshow | Best of 25
Celebrate 25 years of ROADSHOW with some of our best appraisals from the last two and a half decades like a Sanford Robinson Gifford oil, a Rolex Oyster Cosmograph, and an 1871-1872 Boston Red Stockings archive. Which is valued at $1,000,000?
Available: Dec. 14, 2021 – Nov. 14, 2025
Independent Lens | Storm Lake
Does American democracy survive without the backbone of independent local journalism? Go inside The Storm Lake Times, a newspaper serving an Iowa town that has seen its fair share of changes in the 40 years since Big Agriculture came to the area. Pulitzer-winning editor Art Cullen and his family dedicate themselves to keeping the paper alive as local journalism across the country dies out.
Available: Dec 16, 2021 – Nov. 15, 2025
VOCES | American Exile
Brothers Manuel and Valente Valenzuela both volunteered and fought in Vietnam. Fifty years later they are among thousands of veterans who are being deported. The brothers don their uniforms for one last fight, to bring all the veterans back home.
Available: Dec 15, 2021 – Feb. 14, 2022
Nature | Born in the Rockies | Growing Up
Young animals face new challenges as winter envelopes the Rocky Mountains, and spring means the end of childhood. A grizzly mom prepares her cubs for hibernation, a mountain lion raises her kittens and a bison calf must learn to survive the snow.
Available: Dec. 16, 2021 – Nov. 16, 2025
Secrets of the Dead | A Samurai in the Vatican
In 1613, feudal lord Date Masamune sent a Japanese diplomatic mission to Europe to negotiate with the Pope and the King of Spain in hopes opening a new trade route. Led by samurai Hasekura Tsunenaga and Franciscan monk Luis Sotelo, the expedition spent seven years traveling one-third of the globe.
Available: Dec. 16, 2021 – Nov. 16, 2024
Great Performances | San Francisco Symphony Reopening Night
Celebrate opening night of San Francisco Symphony’s 110th season as it welcomes its new GRAMMY-winning music director Esa-Pekka Salonen, featuring music by John Adams, esperanza spalding & Wayne Shorter and performances by Alonzo King LINES Ballet.
Available: Dec. 18, 2021 – Nov. 18, 2024
Austin City Limits | Brittany Howard
Enjoy an hour with singer/songwriter and powerhouse vocalist Brittany Howard of Alabama Shakes, making her ACL solo debut. She performs songs from her Grammy-nominated album Jaime.
Available: Dec. 20, 2021 – June 19, 2022
Expiring Soon
Independent Lens | The Interpreters
The Interpreters is a poignant but tense portrayal of a very human and high-stakes side of war's aftermath, the story of how Afghan and Iraqi interpreters risked their lives aiding American troops--but then became the people we left behind.
Expiration Date: Dec. 31, 2021
American Masters | Decoding Watson
Meet James Watson, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist behind the double helix as he confronts his complex legacy. With unprecedented access to Watson and his family, "American Masters: Decoding Watson" explores his life, achievements, controversies and contradictions.
Expiration Date: Jan. 1, 2022
NOVA | Pluto and Beyond
Since it explored Pluto in 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft has been zooming toward NASA’s most distant target yet. Join the mission team as the probe attempts to fly by Ultima Thule, an object 4 billion miles from Earth.
Expiration Date: Jan. 1, 2022