Category Archives: Program Highlights

ADDRESS TO CONGRESS 2025

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP’S

ADDRESS TO THE JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS

TUESDAY, MARCH 4 @ 7:00PM

At 7 p.m., special on-air coverage begins, hosted by PBS News co-anchors Amna Nawaz and Geoff Bennett. They will be joined by New York Times columnist David Brooks, Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart, Amy Walter, editor-in-chief of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter, and former Republican U.S. Senate candidate, Tiffany Smiley.

PBS News White House correspondent Laura Barrón-López and Capitol Hill correspondent Lisa Desjardins will provide analysis and reporting from Capitol Hill.


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ALL CREATURES

ON MASTERPIECE

ALL GOD’S CREATURES

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27 @ 7:00PM

Skeldale House prepares for Christmas – and Jimmy’s first birthday‘ without the usual festive treats available. Mrs. Hall has figured out how to deliver the perfect holiday, but a worrying news bulletin throws her into turmoil.


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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

FORGOTTEN HERO: WALTER WHITE AND THE NAACP

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM

Explore the dramatic story of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in 1990. The film focuses on the determined people who literally put their bodies on the line to pass the legislation that changed the lives of all Americans.


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FINDING YOUR ROOTS

THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT

SATURDAY, MARCH 1 @ 10:30PM

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. introduces actors Debra Messing & Melanie Lynskey to ancestors who made bold decisions that forever reshaped their family trees. Moving from shtetls in Eastern Europe to a fruit stand in NY City to the wilds of New Zealand, Gates introduces his guests to relatives who took great risks, overcame enormous hardships—and unwittingly transformed the lives of their descendants.


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NOVA

POMPEII’S SECRET UNDERWORLD

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POMPEII’S SECRET UNDERWORLD

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22 @ 10:00PM

For over two centuries, archaeologists have hailed Pompeii as a sophisticated city at the heart of an advanced ancient civilization. But a series of new excavations is painting a much more complex picture of the city tragically buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in the year 79. New archaeological finds.


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AMERICAN ANTHEMS

WHAT YOU’RE HERE FOR

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21 @ 11:30PM

Singer Ruston Kelly meets Melissa Smith, who runs a performing arts program supporting intellectually disabled adults. Bonding over their pasts, Ruston writes a ballad celebrating Melissa’s work and the good we can do when we realize our purpose.


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AMERICAN MASTERS

THE DISAPPEARANCE OF MISS SCOTT

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM

Learn about jazz virtuoso and screen superstar Hazel Scott, the first Black American to have their own television show. An early civil rights pioneer, she faced down the Red Scare at the risk of losing her career and was a champion for equality. The film features interviews with Mickey Guyton, Tracie Thoms, Amanda Seales, and Sheryl Lee Ralph as the voice of Hazel Scott.

 


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