NHPBS Passport Update - February 21, 2022
What's Arriving and Leaving NHPBS Passport
New Titles Coming to NHPBS Passport
Around the World in 80 Days Episode 6
Fogg and Passepartout have a falling out. But the valet's survival skills are desperately needed to save their lives.
Available: Feb. 21, 2022 – Feb. 19, 2027
Antiques Roadshow | Sands Point Preserve Hour 1
Discover historical treasures at Hempstead House at Sands Point Preserve, like a Rolex Daytona Cosmograph, a 1926 Leyendecker Saturday Evening Post illustration, and a Donald Duck animation cell! Which is valued at$400,000?
Available: Feb. 22, 2022 – Jan. 23, 2026
Finding Your Roots | Things We Don’t Discuss
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. works with Pamela Adlon and Kathryn Hahn, two guests whose family trees were obscured by scandals, to discover the truth about their ancestors.
Available: Feb. 23, 2022 – Jan. 24, 2026
American Experience | Roberto Clemente
Born in Puerto Rico, Clemente was an exceptional baseball player and humanitarian whose career sheds light on larger issues of immigration, civil rights and cultural change. He would die in a tragic plane crash in 1972.
Available: Feb. 22, 2022 – Jan. 25, 2025
Nature | Animals with Cameras | Australia
Wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan fronts the team helping scientists investigate the lives of some of Australia’s most iconic animals. Koalas, fruit bats and kangaroos take the cameras into their secret worlds.
Available: Feb. 24, 2022 – Jan. 25, 2026
NOVA | Ancient Maya Metropolis
The ancient ancestors of today’s Maya people thrived in large sophisticated cities across Central America for centuries. Why, around 750 CE, did they begin to abandon many of their major cities? Archaeologists investigate dramatic new evidence of the catastrophic droughts and instability that pushed cities beyond their limits.
Available: Feb. 24, 2022 – Dec. 28, 2024
Poetry in America | Looking for the Gulf Motel
Richard Blanco's poem "Looking for The Gulf Motel" transports readers to 1970s Florida, recalling a Cuban-American family’s vacations on the sparkling sands of Marco Island. Blanco and international superstar Gloria Estefan join Elisa New and a chorus of Cuban American adults in Miami and middle school students in New York City to reflect on family and what it means to call a place home.
Available: Feb. 26, 2022 – Jan. 28, 2029
Austin City Limits | Terry Allen
Enjoy an hour with maverick Texas singer/songwriter and artist Terry Allen and the Panhandle Mystery Band. The Guggenheim Fellowship winner performs songs from his lauded LP Just Like Moby Dick, as well as classics from his back catalog.
Available: Feb. 27, 2022 – Aug. 31, 2022
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Independent Lens | Dolores
With intimate and unprecedented access, Peter Bratt's Dolores tells the story of Dolores Huerta, among the most important, yet least-known, activists in American history. Co-founder of the first farmworkers union with Cesar Chavez, she tirelessly led the fight for racial and labor justice, becoming one of the most defiant feminists of the 20th century.
Expiration Date: March 26, 2022
Nature | Yosemite
Yosemite Valley is a land forged in wildfire and sculpted by water; the delicate balance of these two elements is essential to the creatures and trees that call this land home. But with climates changing and temperatures rising, the Sierras are under siege. Scientists, experts and adventurers head into Yosemite to see how these global changes are affecting one of America’s greatest wildernesses.
Expiration Date: March 27, 2022
Great Performances | Julius Caesar from Donmar
Set in a women’s prison, Great Performances: Julius Caesar offers a powerful dramatization of the catastrophic consequences of a political leader’s extension of power beyond constitutional confines through an all-female lens.
Expiration Date: March 28, 2022