NHPBS Passport Update - January 30, 2023
What's Arriving and Leaving NHPBS Passport
Antiques Roadshow | Fioli Hour 1
Kick off season 27 with fascinating Filoli finds from Woodside, CA including a 1928 English sterling silver horse, a Pairpoint puffy owl lamp, ca. 1907, and a 1967 Ansaldo Poggi viola. Can you guess which treasure is up to $330,000?
Available: January 31, 2023 – January 1, 2027
Finding Your Roots | Hidden Kin
Henry Louis Gates explores the remarkable roots of actors Edward Norton and Julia Roberts—using DNA analysis and genealogical detective work to travel generations into the past, tracing lineages that run from Northern Europe to the American South. Along the way, Norton and Roberts reimagine their family stories and discover their hidden connections to our nation’s history—and each other.
Available: February 1, 2023 – January 2, 2027
American Experience| The Lie Detector
Discover the story of the polygraph, the controversial device that transformed modern police work, seized headlines and was extolled as an infallible crime-fighting tool. A tale of good intentions, twisted morals and unintended consequences.
Available: February 1, 2023 – January 2, 2026
First Contact: An Alien Encounter
Mixing a fictional narrative with documentary interviews, "First Contact: An Alien Encounter" tells the dramatic story of an encounter with an extraterrestrial artifact and explores the new tools we have available in the search for life beyond earth.
Available: February 2, 2023 – November 1, 2030
Austin City Limits | 8th Annual Hall of Fame Honors Sheryl Crow
The eighth annual Austin City Limits Hall of Fame honors celebrated singer/songwriter Sheryl Crow. All-star guest performers include Brandi Carlile, Jason Isbell, Jess Wolfe of Lucius, and Brittney Spencer.
Available: February 5, 2023 – January 6, 2026
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Antiques Roadshow | Fort Worth Hour 1
Celebrate the Season 21 premiere with treasures like a rock & roll poster collection from around 1968, a Delaware Tribe beaded baldric, and an Auguste Rodin "Eternal Spring" bronze that could have the highest value of the season. But is it authentic?
Available: January 31, 2023 – January 1, 2027
Walter Presents Titles:
King of Warsaw | Season 1
This mafia story, set in 1937 Warsaw, is about violence, the lust for power and the pursuit of maintaining it at all costs. It is a look inside the gang that used to sow fear and submission in the Polish capital in the years leading up to World War II, using political conspiracy and gangster bloodletting to try and shape a nation. In Polish with English subtitles.
Available: February 2, 2023 – December 31, 2024
A Murder of Crows | Season 1
Empathy can be a two-edged sword, especially for Martin Bruhl. Tormented by the past, haunted by the present, the chief inspector is still a brilliant investigator. In German with English subtitles.
Available: February 2, 2023 – March 31, 2025
The Crimson Rivers | Season 2
Old-school police detective Pierre Niemans and his former student Camille Delaunay tackle complex, brutal murder cases with unsettling rituals in this thrilling French crime drama. In French with English subtitles.
Available: February 2, 2023 – March 31, 2025
St. Maik | Season 1
Con artist Maik Schafer trades his fake conductor's suit for a real soutane while trying to escape a train job gone wrong. Standing in for the new vicar in the catholic parish of Lauterberg, Maik finds himself caught up in the parish members' fates and fortunes and deals with their problems in his own unconventional way. In German with English subtitles.
Available: February 2, 2023 – December 31, 2025
The Paris Murders | Season 1
Chloe Saint-Laurent is a police profiler for the homicide division, working with Detective Rocher, a hard-nosed cop with a cranky disposition and no time for small talk. In French with English subtitles.
Available: February 2, 2023 – December 31, 2025
The Paris Murders | Season 2
Highly intuitive police profiler Chloé Saint-Laurent must work with hard-nosed Detective Rocher to solve the most puzzling murder cases in Paris. In French with English subtitles.
Available: February 2, 2023 – December 31, 2025
The Paris Murders | Season 3
Amidst the glamour of Paris, highly intuitive police profiler Chloe Saint-Laurent must work with hard-nosed Detective Rocher to solve murders, kidnappings – and alien abductions. In French with English subtitles.
Available: February 2, 2023 – December 31, 2025
Expiring Soon
A Very British Romance | Episode 101 & Episode 102
Lucy Worsley delves into the history of romance to uncover the forces shaping our very British happily ever after and how our feelings have been affected by social, political and cultural ideas.
Expiration Dates: Episode 101 February 9, 2023 and Episode 102 February 16, 2023
Nature | Moose: Life of a Twig Eater
There is a growing problem in North America affecting moose. Whether they make their home in the Canadian Rockies or in Minnesota, moose populations are declining at a rapid rate. One reason is that many of the newborn calves are not surviving their first year. In order to find out why, one intrepid cameraman spends a year documenting the life of a moose calf and its mother.
Expiration Date: February 11, 2023
NOVA | Earth From Space
"Earth From Space" is a groundbreaking two-hour special that reveals a spectacular new space-based vision of our planet. Produced in extensive consultation with NASA scientists, NOVA takes data from earth-observing satellites and transforms it into dazzling visual sequences, each one exposing the intricate and surprising web of forces that sustains life on earth.
Expiration Date: February 13, 2023
Nature | Wild Way of the Vikings
Experience the natural world through the eyes of the Vikings. From the killer whales of the North Sea to the volcanic mounts of Iceland, see the deep history and cultural respect the Vikings had with the land and sea. Ewan McGregor narrates.
Expiration Date: February 14, 2023
Independent Lens | The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution sheds light on the Black Panther Party — and all its reviled, adored, misunderstood, and mythologized history.
Expiration Date: February 16, 2023
Finding Your Roots | No Laughing Matter
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. shows comedians Seth Meyers, Tig Notaro and Sarah Silverman that their family trees are filled with people whose struggles laid the groundwork for their success. Gates also reveals to each one news of an unexpected DNA cousin.
Expiration Date: February 19, 2023