NHPBS Passport Update - November 20, 2024

Volunteer Woodworker
The "Volunteer Woodworker" is a woodworking show for all viewers. In each episode, Charles Brock takes a road trip to the workshop of one of America's master woodworkers. The viewer will hear the artist's personal story, see their amazing work and observe the woodworker's methods. Each episode promises to inspire, educate and entertain the viewer.
Available: Friday, January 24, 2025

The School of Greatness with Lewis Howes
The School of Greatness with Lewis Howes shares inspiring stories through interviews with the most influential minds and leaders of today, covering topics from health and money to relationships and self-help. In each half-hour episode, host Lewis Howes draws out engaging and actionable steps from his guests to teach viewers new skills and inspire them with incredible stories of everyday success.
Available: Tuesday, December 24, 2024

Youth Music of the World
Youth Music of The World presents a series programmes featuring young American musicians and singers performing in iconic and historic European venues. The repertoire is predominantly classical and orchestral and in two programmes choirs from different American schools join together to perform as one mass choir. The students tell us about the experience highlighting the differences from home.
Available: Friday, December 6, 2024

The Chavis Chronicles
Hosted by civil rights icon Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., a thought-provoking half-hour weekly talk show with an urban American flair featuring interviews with famous leaders and politicians, doctors and scientists, cultural leaders and influencers from around the globe.
Available: Friday, December 6, 2024

Christopher Kimball's Milk Street Television
The editors of Christopher Kimball's Milk Street Magazine search the world over for techniques and ingredients that can transform your home cooking, producing bigger, bolder dishes with less time and effort.
Available: Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Sara's Weeknight Meals
Since 2008, SARA'S WEEKNIGHT MEALS has been about the things that matter most the world over -tasty home-cooked meals, eaten with family and cooked with love. Sara Moulton hosts this fast-paced, informative half-hour program that's all about getting quick, delicious meals on the table every night of the week.
Available: Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Curious Traveler
Who? What? Where? Why? When? and How? Come along and get curious on an educational & entertaining field trip for grown-ups around the world. Award-winning host & travel writer Christine van Blokland shares her insatiable curiosity for our exciting, inspiring and beautiful world in this unique travel series.
Available: Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Milk Street's My Family Recipe
In Milk Street's My Family Recipe, Christopher Kimball and acclaimed baker Cheryl Day use historical culinary context and modern kitchen know-how to help home cooks recreate lost or forgotten cherished family recipes, from Hawaiian butter rolls to Puerto Rican pérnil. More than a cooking show, My Family Recipe shows how food can connect history, community, family and memories.
Available: Tuesday, December 3, 2024

A Classic Christmas with the Bach Festival Society
Every year, the Bach Festival Society of Winter Park, Florida puts on a performance which fills the beautiful Knowles Memorial Chapel with the sounds of the holiday season. The 175-voice Bach Festival choir, youth choir and orchestra offer traditional holiday selections, including well-known Christmas hymns and carols beautifully arranged for the performers.
Available: Sunday, December 1, 2024

Family Justice
When a heart attack forces Caro and Niki to take over their family's law firm, Caro's ethical approach contrasts with Niki's ambition. Can they find a way to complement each other? From Walter Presents, in German with English subtitles.
Available: Friday, November 29, 2024

All Creatures Great and Small
James Herriot's adventures as a veterinarian in 1930's Yorkshire get a glorious new adaptation in a series based on his internationally celebrated books. Nicholas Ralph makes his television debut as the iconic vet who became renowned for his inspiring humor, compassion and love of life.
Available: Thursday, November 28, 2024

POV
Since 1988, POV has been the home for the world's boldest contemporary filmmakers, celebrating intriguing personal stories that spark conversation and inspire action.
Available: Tuesday, November 26, 2024

Call the Midwife
Call the Midwife follows the nurses, midwives and nuns from Nonnatus House, who visit the expectant mothers of Poplar, providing the poorest women with the best possible care.
Available: Monday, November 25, 2024

The Key Ingredient
Renowned food writer and cooking teacher Sheri Castle celebrates local ingredients, tracing their journeys from source to kitchen. Sheri introduces us to local farmers, growers, fishermen and chefs and shares approachable home cooking recipes and tips.
Available: Monday, November 25, 2024

Christina Cooks: Back to the Cutting Board
Christina Pirello shares healthy, fresh Italian and Mediterranean recipes as well as her brassy, insightful approach to liver, kidney and heart health and diabetes prevention. Diagnosed with terminal cancer in 1983, Christina turned to a macrobiotic diet of whole grains and vegetables to aid in her recovery, launching the 20-plus year run of her Emmy Award-winning series Christina Cooks.
Available: Sunday, November 24, 2024

Austin City Limits
Great music. No limits. Now the longest-running music series in American television history, ACL showcases popular music legends and innovators from every genre. In addition to being honored by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum as a rock and roll landmark, ACL is the only television program to ever receive the National Medal of Arts, the nation's highest award for artistic excellence.
Available: Saturday, November 23, 2024

Cook's Country
Where family recipes from every corner of America are re-imagined for home cooks everywhere. With the same practical, no-nonsense food approach that has made Cook's Country magazine successful, the series features the best regional home cooking in the country
Available: Saturday, November 23, 2024

Helsinki Crimes
Life in Kirkkonummi should be peaceful, but is anything but. Work with the Helsinki Murder Squad means the worst of human behavior isn't just glimpsed--it's familiar. Based on the novels by Matti-Yrjana Joensuu. From Walter Presents, in Finnish with English subtitles.
Available: Friday, November 22, 2024

Secrets of the Dead
Secrets of the Dead is part detective story, part true-life drama that unearths evidence from around the world, challenging prevailing ideas and throwing fresh light on unexplained events.
Available: Thursday, November 21, 2024

The Caverns Sessions
Formerly known as Bluegrass Underground, this magical, "musical adventure" series is taped deep within the subterranean amphitheater of The Caverns in Tennessee's majestic Cumberland Mountains. Now in it's eleventh year and re-branded as The Caverns Sessions, this series features both long-established and emerging artists within a broad spectrum of genres.
Available: Wednesday, November 20, 2024

The Good Road
An innovative, inspiring documentary series about two best friends who travel the world meeting philanthropists and change-makers, who have dedicated their lives to addressing global humanitarian issues.
Available: Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Local, USA
Culled from public television stations and independent producers from across the country, LOCAL, USA is a half-hour series featuring fascinating stories of diverse people, curated around a single theme.
Available: Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Leonardo da Vinci
A 15th century polymath of soaring imagination and profound intellect, Leonardo da Vinci created some of the most revered works of art of all time, but his artistic endeavors often seemed peripheral to his pursuits in science and engineering. Through his paintings and thousands of pages of drawings and writings, Leonardo da Vinci explores one of humankind's most curious and innovative minds.
Available: Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Syndrome E
After Lucie Henebelle shoots her own partner during a skewed homicide investigation, washed-up but brilliant detective Franck Sharko is assigned to look into why. Haunted by ghosts of his past, Sharko must unravel the mysterious Syndrome E before it's too late. From Walter Presents, in French with English subtitles.
Available: Friday, November 15, 2024

Elemental: Reimagine Wildfire
Top wildfire experts and survivors discuss how homes and communities ignite in fast moving wildfires and what steps we can take to prevent these disasters. Learn about the harrowing escape from Paradise, California; research why some homes burn and others don't; and Native American practices that have long used fire to restore landscapes and increase safety.
Available: Friday, November 15, 2024

Laura Flanders & Friends
THE LAURA FLANDERS SHOW is back with more award-winning interviews and investigative reporting on the people and movements driving positive systemic change in our world today. The show features forward-thinking people from actress Sheryl Lee Ralph to author Naomi Klein and innovative projects as well as a monthly journalists' round table with journalists of color. It's produced in rural New York.
Available: Friday, November 15, 2024

The Precipice
A Native American bayou community struggles to preserve an eroding shoreline that threatens to wash away their culture; the result of decades of systemic injustices by the state of Louisiana and the federal government that Hurricane Ida's devastation has only exacerbated. Now, the fate of the Point-Au-Chien Indian Tribe is left in the balance.
Available: Friday, November 15, 2024

America ReFramed
America ReFramed brings to life compelling stories, personal voices and experiences that illuminate the contours of our ever-changing country. Since 2012, the series has premiered 170 films - more than half helmed by female makers and a third credited to BIPOC makers - centering stories of the LGBTQ community, people with disabilities, the formerly incarcerated, veterans, immigrants and more.
Available: Friday, November 15, 2024

Il Volo in the Valley of the Temples
Join the acclaimed trio to celebrate Italian culture and history in the breathtaking Sicilian setting of the Temple of Concordia. The concert showcases their powerful vocals on a mix of beloved classics, operatic arias, and popular songs, all infused with their signature style, making this a full-fledged cultural event that connects the past with the present.
Available: Wednesday, November 13, 2024

American Experience
American Experience, TV's most-watched history series, brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.
Available: Wednesday, November 13, 2024

Craft in America
Craft in America explores the vitality, history and significance of the craft movement in the United States and its impact on our nation's rich cultural heritage. Capturing the beauty, creativity and originality of craftsmanship, the film highlights artists and explores the inter-relationship of what they do, how they do it and why they have chosen a life of creating art.
Available: Tuesday, November 12, 2024

A Wu-Tang Experience: Live at Red Rocks Amphitheatre
In 2021, Wu-Tang Clan, backed by the Colorado Symphony, attempted a unique experiment in live entertainment. By night's end, 10,000 fans witnessed the most extraordinary concert in the history of hip-hop music. Welcome to "A Wu-Tang Experience."
Available: Monday, November 11, 2024

Anacostia Delta: The Legacy of DC's Telemasters
Thirty of DC's finest musicians celebrate their heroes and display the virtuosic, genre-blending music championed by the late guitarists, Danny Gatton and Roy Buchanan. This blend of jazz, blues, country, swing, rock, and bluegrass is unique to the musical culture of DC - The Anacostia Delta. The film explores the universe of live music that permeated Washington, D.C. in the post-WWII era.
Available: Sunday, November 10, 2024

Salute to Service: A Veterans Day Celebration
Join country music star Mickey Guyton for a heartfelt Veterans Day celebration honoring our nation's heroes with inspiring military stories and performances by Craig Morgan, Christian McBride, Aubrey Logan, and the U.S. Army Field Band.
Available: Saturday, November 9, 2024

All Heart
Step inside the halls of Turin's Le Molinette hospital in the late 1960s. As the world changes, is brilliance any match for chauvinism? From Walter Presents, in Italian with English subtitles.
Available: Friday, November 8, 2024

Pati's Mexican Table
In each episode, Pati embarks upon an exciting and entertaining journey, where each dish serves as a point of departure into Mexico's rich history and culture, Pati's personal experiences, her family life, and her ongoing conversations with cooks in both Mexico and the US.
Available: Friday, November 8, 2024

Finding Your Roots
For more than a decade, renowned Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has helped to expand America's sense of itself, stimulating a national conversation about identity with humor, wisdom, and compassion. Professor Gates has explored the ancestry of dozens of influential people from diverse backgrounds, taking millions of viewers deep into the past to reveal the connections that bind us all.
Available: Thursday, November 7, 2024

Peleliu: WWII's Most Well-Preserved Battlefield
The remote island of Peleliu is considered the most well-preserved battlefield in the world. It is illegal to remove any relic from the island, so the battlefield remains almost as it was when the fight here ended in the fall of 1944. This year marks the 80th anniversary of the Marine and Army battle, which was supposed to last three days, but instead took 72 days of hard fighting.
Available: Thursday, November 7, 2024

Dad's Secret War: France 1944
My Father's Secret War: France 1944 is a riveting and true story of an American who joined the British S.O.E. 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 and affecting the D-Day landings of June 6, 1944.
Available: Thursday, November 7, 2024

HAUSER - Classic Gala Concert Live at the Royal Albert Hall
Immerse yourself in an unforgettable musical journey with the global music superstar. HAUSER's masterful cello performances transport audiences to new realms of emotion and beauty. Special guest artists joining HAUSER are Caroline Campbell, Lara Fabian, and Aida Garifullina, with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Robert Ziegler.
Available: Wednesday, November 6, 2024

The Shamrock Tenors: Live From Belfast
Take a musical journey through the Emerald Isle's most beloved songs with these exciting new artists. Hailing from Ulster in the North of Ireland, they are shaping the future of Celtic Music - all in perfect five-part harmony. With favorites like "Danny Boy," "The Parting Glass," and "Wild Rover," this is a show for all ages, performed with cheeky Irish charm.
Available: Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Love After War: Saving Love, Saving Lives
LOVE AFTER WAR introduces viewers to wounded veterans and their romantic partners who share their journeys of restoring emotional closeness and physical intimacy after combat-related injuries. Featuring expert commentary on sexuality and disability, this film aims to sensitize the public, provide hope to our heroes, and serve as an educational tool for those involved in veteran's care.
Available: Saturday, November 2, 2024

Playing Like a Girl: The House That Rob Built
In an era when gender discrimination in sports was the norm, Coach Selvig built a "house" of inclusion and empowerment at the University of Montana by recruiting female athletes from ranches, farms and Native reservations.
Available: Friday, November 1, 2024

Hostage
A Nordic Airlines flight from Stockholm to San Francisco is hijacked by remote control and Fredrika Bergman must identify the hijackers before the plane is downed. As a conspiracy unfolds, Fredrika begins to suspect the truth is closer than it appears in this tense study of people imprisoned by their pasts. From Walter Presents, in Swedish with English subtitles.
Available: Friday, November 1, 2024

Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame: Inaugural Induction Ceremony
Some of the most notable names in folk, Americana, and roots music history and their family members attended the inaugural Folk, Americana, Roots Hall of Fame (FARHOF) induction ceremony at the Boston living music museum. This special captures interviews and live performances from the induction weekend culminating with the awards ceremony held in the magnificent Boch Center Wang Theater.
Available: Friday, November 1, 2024

Major Taylor: Champion of the Race
Major Taylor: Champion of the Race retraces the life and legacy of an American civil rights pioneer who set more than 20 world records in speed cycling during the heart of Jim Crow America. Major Taylor captured the world cycling championship, the American cycling crown, and had set dozens of world speed cycling records - all while having to endure withering racial pressures.
Available: Friday, November 1, 2024

And Knowledge to Keep Us
Every year Sugpiat kids gather for Akhiok Kids Camp to connect with and celebrate knowledge their Ancestors grew for over 7500 years. But a barrier lies between the kids and their Ancestors: 200 years of colonial suppression that reduced their words to whispers. The Camp is part of the race against time to repatriate and reawaken Sugpiaq knowledge and culture.
Available: Friday, November 1, 2024

The Eyes of the World: From D-Day to VE Day
Join historian John Monsky and host Katie Couric for a Veterans Day tribute. Broadway stars join The Boston Pops, conducted by Keith Lockhart, to tell the dramatic story of WWII's final months in Europe. Rare photographs and personal accounts from Ernest Hemingway, Robert Capa and photojournalist Lee Miller bring history to life in this unforgettable celebration of the 80th Anniversary of D-Day.
Available: Friday, November 1, 2024

Swing Lo'
Swing 'Lo explores the life and tragic passing of up-and-coming visual artist, Michael Richards, a New Yorker of Jamaican descent who died in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Available: Friday, November 1, 2024

The Living Land
This poetic film celebrates the beauty and healing power of nature. By following the season cycles, it invites presentness through attention to fleeting moments and promotes a healing calm through visual, natural, musical, and poetic harmony. Interspersed are experts who reflect on the importance of nature to our well-being and how important our love for nature is to its conservation.
Available: Friday, November 1, 2024

Changing Seas
Produced by South Florida PBS in Miami, Florida, Changing Seas gives viewers a fish-eye view of life in the deep blue. Join scientists as they study earth's last frontier and discover the mysteries of our liquid planet.
Available: Friday, November 1, 2024

Citizen Nation
This four-part documentary series is an inspiring coming-of-age story that follows teenagers from across America as they face off in the nation's premier civics competition. Culminating in a championship showdown in the nation's capital, high school students with diverse personal and political backgrounds grapple with critical questions about democracy.
Available: Wednesday, October 30, 2024

VOCES
Produced by Latino Public Broadcasting, the acclaimed PBS documentary series VOCES features the best of Latino arts, culture and history and shines a light on current issues that impact Latino Americans. Devoted to exploring the rich diversity of the Latino experience, VOCES presents new and established filmmakers and brings their powerful and illuminating stories to a national audience.
Available: Tuesday, October 29, 2024

The Marlow Murder Club
Join Judith, Suzie, and Becks in investigating a brutal murder. Along with Detective Tanika Malik, they must piece together clues, grill suspects, and face down real danger as they work against the clock to stop a killer in their tracks.
Available: Monday, October 28, 2024

The Nordic Murders
In this engrossing crime drama, cop Julia Thiel and her mother Karin Lossow investigate criminal cases on the otherwise peaceful Baltic Sea island of Usedom. From Walter Presents, in German with English subtitles.
Available: Friday, October 25, 2024

The Palace
Twin sisters Christine and Marlene, separated at birth, meet by chance in East Berlin. To learn more about each other they swap lives, navigating the dangers of divided Germany. From Walter Presents, in German with English subtitles.
Available: Friday, October 25, 2024

Journey of the Bonesetter's Daughter
Follow the creation of the San Francisco Opera's celebrated production of Amy Tan's bestselling book of the same name. An ambitious, cross-cultural tour de force that brings together artists from China and the U.S, the opera tells a deeply moving story about the difficult but unbreakable bond between mothers and daughters-inspired by Tan's own family history.
Available: Friday, October 25, 2024

The Jewish People: A Story of Survival
Spanning millennia, this history of the Jewish people explores how a small group who started as desert nomads overcame countless obstacles to survive to the present day. From slavery to the loss of their homeland; from exile to anti-Semitism; from pogroms to near annihilation in the Holocaust, how did the Jews endure while so many other communities vanished? The answers are surprising.
Available: Friday, October 25, 2024