NHPBS Passport Update - February 28, 2022
What's Arriving and Leaving NHPBS Passport
New Titles Coming to NHPBS Passport
Around the World in 80 Days Episode 7
In the Old West, the three adventurers meet a lawman with his fugitive captive. Making their train connection hinges upon Abigail.
Available: Feb. 21, 2022 – Feb. 26, 2027
Antiques Roadshow | Sands Point Preserve Hour 2
See spectacular finds at Sands Point Preserve, including a fancy yellow diamond ring, ca 1950, an 1880 Hughes & Woodward football rule book, and a WWI James Montgomery Flagg Uncle Sam poster. Can you guess which is $120,000?
Available: March 1, 2022 – Jan. 30, 2026
Kindred Spirits: Artists Hilda Wilkinson Brown and Lilian Thomas Burwell
Lilian Thomas Burwell recounts the life story of her aunt, unsung artist and educator Hilda Wilkinson Brown, and the influence she had on Burwell’s own career as an abstract expressionist artist. Their lives, works of art and sources of inspiration are presented against the backdrop of a segregated society where marginalized Black artists created their own venues to exhibit their work.
Available: March 2, 2022 – Feb. 2, 2024
Finding Your Roots | Mexican Roots
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the deep Mexican roots of talk show host Mario Lopez and comedian Melissa Villaseñor, uncovering ancestors stretching back to the 1500s. Weaving together stories of migratory farmers, Spanish Conquistadors and Native Americans, Gates conjures up personal histories of diverse, sometimes conflicting, elements.
Available: March 3, 2022 – Feb. 1, 2026
Nature | Pumas: Legends of the Ice Mountains
Travel to the ice mountains of Chile to discover the secrets of the puma, the area’s biggest and most elusive predator. Discover how this mountain lion survives and follow the dramatic fate of a puma mother and her cubs. Narrated by Uma Thurman.
Available: March 3, 2022 – Feb. 2, 2025
NOVA | Arctic Sinkholes
Colossal explosions shake a remote corner of the Siberian tundra, leaving behind massive craters. In Alaska, a huge lake erupts with bubbles of inflammable gas. Scientists are discovering that these mystifying phenomena add up to a ticking time bomb, as long-frozen permafrost melts and releases vast amounts of methane, a potent greenhouse gas.
Available: March 3, 2022 – Feb. 1, 2025
Poetry in America | Cascadilla Falls
Picking up a hand-sized stone near a rushing waterfall, the speaker of A.R. Ammons’s poem “Cascadilla Falls” is catapulted into the cosmos. Planetary scientist Lindy Elkins-Tanton, composer DJ Spooky, geologist Daniel Schrag, poet Joshua Bennett, CEO Larry Berger, and philosopher Rebecca Goldstein join host Elisa New to consider Ammons’s window onto the vast workings of the universe.
Available: March 5, 2022 – Feb. 4, 2029
Expiring Soon
Pink Floyd: Live in Venice
Experience the first authorized version of the band’s legendary 1989 “Night of Wonders” concert. Over 200,000 fans gathered in St. Mark’s Square to hear them perform their greatest hits from a floating platform in the Venetian lagoon.
Expiration Date: March 28, 2022
The Child in Time
The Child In Time follows Stephen Lewis (Benedict Cumberbatch, Sherlock), a children’s author, as he struggles to find purpose in his life after the loss of his daughter. His wife Julie (Kelly Macdonald) has left him, and the film explores the dark territory of a marriage devastated, the loss of childhood, the fluidity of time, grief, hope and acceptance.
Expiration Date: March 31, 2022
Inheritance
Meet three women who are genetically predisposed to breast cancer. Follow Alejandra, Lilith and Bonnie as they undergo life-altering medical procedures in the hope of reducing their risk – and saving their lives.
Expiration Date: March 31, 2022