NHPBS Passport Update - May 1, 2025

Books by the River
Explore the inspiration and passion that it takes to create a Southern story. Host Holly Jackson engages with Southern Authors through in-depth interview as they tell humorous and heartwarming stories, share their love of reading, and offer advice for aspiring writers. This season, take a deeper look into what it takes to write Southern stories.
Available: Thursday, June 19, 2025

My Secret Country
MY SECRET COUNTRY is a journey into childhood imagination, where three children create imaginary friends and worlds. When their animated companions discover desserts are disappearing, they embark on a magical quest to save them. Co-written with the young protagonists, this allegorical documentary blends fantasy and reality, celebrating creativity.
Available: Saturday, June 7, 2025

Have Guitar Will Travel World
Nashville singer-songwriter Mark Allen takes viewers on an epic journey around the globe to experience the music, stories and celebrations reflecting a region's unique identity. A "travel cinéma vérité" series, Have Guitar Will Travel World lets viewers experience the unscripted discovery, spontaneous jam sessions, and the enthusiasm that erupts when musicians are your guides to their culture.
Available: Thursday, June 5, 2025

In the America's with David Yetman
Hosted by research social scientist David Yetman, explore the landscapes, peoples and history of North and South America - from the coldest towns in Canada to the tropical islands of the Caribbean.
Available: Monday, June 2, 2025

My Music with Rhiannon Giddens
Grammy winner and MacArthur "Genius Grant" recipient Rhiannon Giddens hosts a new half-hour series of musical performance and conversation with outstanding guest artists-innovative and accomplished musicians and storytellers who have forged unconventional paths to find their voices.
Available: Thursday, May 29, 2025

Bare Feet With Mickela Mallozzi
Join Emmy® Award-winning travel host, producer and dancer Mickela Mallozzi on her adventures as she experiences the world, one dance at a time! From re-discovering her family's roots in Southern Italy to exploring the diverse regions of Central Asia in the hills of Turkey, Mickela's travels explore the traditional dances of every culture while connecting with the local community.
Available: Thursday, May 29, 2025

How to Power a City
Nominated for four awards, "How To Power A City" is a solutions-focused film about renewable energy with themes of science, innovation, leadership, and love of community. Each story celebrates trailblazers creating geographic-specific renewable energy projects and using solar and wind power to survive hurricanes, build economies, and innovate power systems while creating clean electricity.
Available: Saturday, May 24, 2025

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, May 24, 2025

Cinema Nomad
Explore nations through the country's cinematic past, present and future. Cinephile host, Stephanie Gardner, takes viewers on a journey around the world to meet directors in their thirties, delving into their hopes, dreams and desires. Viewers experience the filmmakers' daily lives, visit their homes, neighborhoods, hangouts, and the locations that inspire their creativity.
Available: Thursday, May 22, 2025

To Dine For with Kate Sullivan
TO DINE FOR WITH KATE SULLIVAN features stories of creators and dreamers who have reached uncommon success through ingenuity and innovation. Their favorite restaurant becomes the backdrop for a passionate and fascinating conversation about life, success and what it takes to pursue and achieve the American Dream.
Available: Thursday, May 22, 2025

Texas Monthly Presents: The Story
Texas Monthly has chronicled the state for more than fifty years, and nobody knows Texas-its characters and complexities-better than the magazine's writers and editors. Texas Monthly Presents brings that journalism from the page to the screen, and the first season, titled The Story, transforms select stories into brand-new visual experiences, combining cinematic footage with writer interviews.
Available: Sunday, May 18, 2025

Louisiana Coastal Cooking
Louisiana Coastal Cooking is a new culinary project that celebrates the bounty of Southeast Louisiana and raises awareness about coastal restoration through the lens of food. This 13-part road trip will take you to small communities and out-of-the-way places - often by boat - to showcase the regional cuisine of the state's bayous and waterways prepared by chefs and home cooks.
Available: Sunday, May 11, 2025

The Volunteers: Mountain Rescue Brings Us Home
A historian explores the surprising connections between two mountain rescue groups on opposite sides of the world. What can we learn from these heroic, volunteer first responders about how to bridge our political differences and build better societies?
Available: Saturday, May 10, 2025

Lovejoy
In the secretive, sometimes shadowy world of English antiques, there's no one quite like Lovejoy, a loveable rogue and antiques dealer with a talent for spotting hidden treasures. If there's a bargain to be had, Lovejoy will sense it. If there's a deal going down, Lovejoy will want a piece of the action. And if you're a victim of deception, injustice and deceit, Lovejoy will see you right.
Available: Friday, May 9, 2025

Pale Mountains
In the stunning, eerie Dolomites, a serial killer resurfaces, shaking Bolzano to its core. A tortured detective and ambitious DA must set aside old wounds to chase the truth. From Walter Presents, in Italian with English subtitles.
Available: Friday, May 9, 2025

Bugs That Rule the World
A four-part global investigation into insect declines, exploring their diversity and their critical roles on the planet. Scientists reveal the beauty of bugs, from pollinators to insect assassins to the tiny clean-up crews that purify the planet.
Available: Thursday, May 8, 2025

America the Bountiful
America the Bountiful takes viewers on a weekly journey into America's heartland to learn about culture and find inspiration in the personal, emotionally moving chronicles of farmers, artisans, restauranteurs, and home cooks through the fare that they grow, produce, and eat. Host Capri Cafaro meets guests who share culturally diverse and untold food stories and traditions.
Available: Wednesday, May 7, 2025

Pati Jinich Explores Panamericana
Join chef Pati Jinich on a journey inspired by the Pan-American Highway to celebrate the many cultures of the Americas and how they enrich each other. Follow her as she travels from the top of Alaska through Alberta.
Available: Wednesday, May 7, 2025

Generation: Freedom
Generation: Freedom explores how independent creators built meaningful businesses by turning their passions into sustainable work. Featuring real stories from entrepreneurs across industries, the film offers insights into what it takes to create something from nothing, without outside funding or a roadmap. A practical and inspiring look at the future of work and creative entrepreneurship.
Available: Saturday, May 3, 2025

Cold Summer
Bari, early '90s--corruption spreads and the old rules no longer apply. The sharp, relentless Marshal Pietro Fenoglio hunts for truth when a crime boss's son is kidnapped, shattering the fragile balance of the underworld. From Walter Presents, in Italian with English subtitles.
Available: Friday, May 2, 2025

Aging in America: Survive or Thrive
Aging in America: Survive or Thrive, narrated by Martin Sheen, is a one-hour documentary that celebrates the promise of increased longevity while addressing crucial and unprecedented public policy challenges. Using Dr. Robert Butler's Pulitzer Prize winning book, Why Survive? as a guide, the film explores critical topics such as ageism, healthcare, economic insecurity, and Alzheimer's disease.
Available: Thursday, May 1, 2025

Skydiving Over Sixty
A team of 110 elite senior athletes from across the globe gather in pursuit of a skydiving world record. These seniors range in age from 60 to 90+ years old and have been featured widely, including The New York Times, AARP Magazine, Good Morning America and the Wall Street Journal.
Available: Thursday, May 1, 2025

Asian Americans
Asian Americans is a five-hour film series that delivers a bold, fresh perspective on a history that matters today, more than ever. As America becomes more diverse, and more divided while facing unimaginable challenges, how do we move forward together? Told through intimate personal stories, the series will cast a new lens on U.S. history and the ongoing role that Asian Americans have played.
Available: Thursday, May 1, 2025

Defying Death on the Atlantic
The World's Toughest Row, where unassisted rowing boats cross the Atlantic Ocean from the Canary Islands to Antigua. For a team of four veterans, it was the ultimate test of body and mind, and an opportunity to raise funds and awareness for other vets suffering with mental illness. Then tragedy struck and they were stranded in a life raft waiting to be rescued. This their story.
Available: Thursday, May 1, 2025

O Pioneer
O Pioneer reckons with and redefines the American pioneer. The documentary follows three West Virginians-a blacksmith, a seamstress, and a hospital chaplain-as they creatively navigate hardship. Weaving narration with archival pioneer footage, candid moments from each subject, poetic vignettes, and dream-like animation. O Pioneer asks viewers to courageously champion the pioneer within.
Available: Tuesday, April 29, 2025