NHPBS Passport Update - March 28 2022
What's Arriving and Leaving NHPBS Passport
Luna and Sophie (Seasons 1 and 2)
Luna Kunath is strong-willed but her penchant for naivety gets her into trouble. Sophie Pohlmann seems more mature, but her desire for harmony and fairness can be her weakness. From Walter's Choice, in German with English subtitles.
Available: March 31 – March 31, 2024
Call the Midwife | Season 11 Episode 4
A heatwave descends over Poplar and Sister Monica Joan struggles. An angel comes in the form of Fred, who has a sneaky plan. While Cyril continues to search for a new job, Lucille comes to terms with unexpected news.
Available: April 3 – June 7, 2022
Sanditon | Season 2 Episode 4
Tension mounts for Charlotte when Colbourne and Colonel Lennox reunite at Lady Denham’s garden party.
Available: April 3 – April 23, 2029
Unguarded
APAC, a revolutionary Brazilian prison system, focuses on recovery instead of punishment. "Unguarded" explores the unique method behind this system, now present in 23 countries across four continents. Observing the daily lives of the “recuperandos” (recovering inmates) who live and work there, we see firsthand why—as one inmate puts it—“no one escapes from love."
Available: March 30, 2022 – Feb. 28, 2026
Poetry in America | Two poems, by Linda Hogan and Alberto Ríos
Two poems, by Linda Hogan and Alberto Ríos, follow wolves, jackrabbits, and other animals across the harsh Great Plains and Sonoran Desert. Both poets join wildlife biologist Jeff Corwin, film director Chris Eyre, Native American scholars Philip Deloria and Stephanie Fitzgerald, and a chorus of students to discuss how the poems call back difficult histories of human migration in the American west.
Available: April 2, 2022 – March 4, 2029
Expiring Soon
Independent Lens | Jim Allison: Breakthrough
The story of one warmhearted, stubborn man’s visionary quest to find a cure for cancer, Jim Allison: Breakthrough is an homage to an unconventional superhero — a pioneering, harmonica-playing scientist from a small town in Texas who triumphed over a doubtful medical establishment to save innumerable lives around the world and win the Nobel Prize.
Expiration Date: April 26, 2022
Secrets of the Dead | Scanning the Pyramids
Following the publication of Nature‘s article acknowledging the greatest discovery in Egypt’s Khufu pyramid for more than 1,000 years.
Expiration Date: April 26, 2022
NOVA | Nazi Attack on America
Long before 9/11, a far deadlier, little-known attack from the ocean depths struck our shores, lasting three-and-a-half years and claiming 5,000 lives. Now, famed undersea explorer Bob Ballard, discoverer of the Titanic, investigates the wreck of one of the attack craft, a German submarine that lies at the bottom of the gulf just a few miles off New Orleans.
Expiration Date: May 5, 2022