Thai Cave Rescue (2018) | Full Documentary | NOVA PBS America 2026-09-23 | Thai Cave Rescue (2018) | Full Documentary | NOVA
Concorde: The Untold Story - Part 2 (2023) | Full Documentary PBS America 2025-10-09 | This is the story of how America’s supersonic dream ended and the subsequent battle between Russia’s TU144 and Europe’s Concorde. It reveals how international politics and the environmental movement wounded the supersonic dream and how Concorde became the most luxurious airliner in the world. But this is also the story of tragedies that ultimately killed the supersonic dream. Could it be revived?Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcast channel weekly highlights at pbsamerica.co.uk FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica
Concorde: The Untold Story - Part 1 (2023) | Full Documentary PBS America 2025-10-08 | Go inside the race to build the first supersonic airliner between Europe’s Concorde, the Soviet TU144 and the American Boeing 2707. From the post-war jet boom to the successful flights of the TU144 and Concorde in 1968-1969, examine both the technical challenges and the international espionage that surrounded the attempt to make the fastest airliner on earth.Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcast channel weekly highlights at pbsamerica.co.uk FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica
Super Skyscrapers - The Billionaire Building (2014) | Full Documentary PBS America 2025-10-04 | Upon completion, One57, on Manhattan’s 57th Street will rise more than 1,000 feet, making it the tallest residential tower in the western hemisphere and boasting spectacular views of Central Park.Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcast channel weekly highlights at pbsamerica.co.uk FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica
Vampire Legend (2015) | Full Documentary PBS America 2025-10-03 | Follow scientists as they uncover “deviant” burials dating back to medieval England, pointing to a belief that the dead could rise from their graves. Predating Eastern European legend, these discoveries force a re-examination of modern vampire lore.Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcast channel weekly highlights at pbsamerica.co.uk FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica
Super Skyscrapers - The Vertical City (2014) |Full Documentary PBS America 2025-10-03 | Shanghai Tower isn’t just a skyscraper--it’s a vertical city, a collection of businesses, services and hotels all in one place, fitting a population the size of Monaco into a footprint the size of a football field.Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcast channel weekly highlights at pbsamerica.co.uk FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica
Super Skyscrapers - Building the Future (2014) | Full Documentary PBS America 2025-10-02 | Commonly known as “the cheese grater,” the Leadenhall Building is the pinnacle of avant-garde architecture. Designed as a tapered tower with a steel exoskeleton, it’s the tallest and most innovative skyscraper in the City of London.Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcast channel weekly highlights at pbsamerica.co.uk FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica
Super Skyscrapers - One World Trade Center (2014) | Full Documentary PBS America 2025-10-01 | One World Trade Center, the tallest building in the western hemisphere and a famous modern landmark, is engineered to be the safest and strongest skyscraper ever built.Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcast channel weekly highlights at pbsamerica.co.uk FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica
Raw to Ready - Bombardier - Episode 4 (2013) | Full Documentary PBS America 2025-09-27 | The Bombardier CRJ-1000, a regional aircraft that carries up to 100 passengers, is part of a global fleet that transports for three out of every four American air travelers. It's only made possible through the use of silica, titanium, aluminum, and lacquer.Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcast channel weekly highlights at pbsamerica.co.uk FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica
Raw to Ready - Mack Truck - Episode 3 (2013) | Full Documentary PBS America 2025-09-26 | The Mack Pinnacle highway truck—a modern workhorse vital to commerce and capable of hauling over 80,000-pound payloads—relies on platinum, petroleum, copper, and polyurethane.Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcast channel weekly highlights at pbsamerica.co.uk FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica
Raw to Ready - Bentley - Episode 2 (2013) | Full Documentary PBS America 2025-09-25 | The Mulsanne from Bentley, a perfectly luxurious and perfectly fast road machine, is only made possible by iron, pigment, leather, and wood.Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcast channel weekly highlights at pbsamerica.co.uk FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica
Raw to Ready - Komatsu - Episode 1 (2013) | Full Documentary PBS America 2025-09-24 | The giant earth mover Komatsu 930E is an amazing engineering achievement made possible by four unexpected essential raw ingredients: chromium, mineral oil, latex rubber, and sulfuric acid.Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcast channel weekly highlights at pbsamerica.co.uk FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica
E.O. Wilson: Of Ants and Men (2015) | Full Documentary PBS America 2025-09-17 | An exploration of the remarkable life and groundbreaking ideas of biologist E.O Wilson, founder of the discipline of sociobiology, world authority on insects and Pulitzer-prize winning writer on the subject of human nature. In Wilson, we see an endearing personality who is one of the great scientists and thinkers of our time.Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcast channel weekly highlights at pbsamerica.co.uk FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes (2023) |Full Documentary | American Masters PBS America 2025-09-12 | Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes explores the life and music of the legendary drummer, bandleader and social activist--a remarkable series of creative peaks, personal struggles and reinventions--from Jim Crow to the Civil Rights years, from the heady days of post-war modern jazz to hip hop and beyond.Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcast channel weekly highlights at pbsamerica.co.uk FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica
My Bionic Pet (2014) | Full Documentary PBS America 2025-09-10 | Left disabled without fins, flippers, beaks or tails because of disease, accidents or even human cruelty, some animals need what amounts to a miracle. Amazing prosthetics made possible by the latest engineering and technology are able to provide what they need. Follow the stories of a horse, a pig, a swan, an alligator and several dogs, all of whom have prosthetics that have changed their lives.Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcast channel weekly highlights at pbsamerica.co.uk FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica
Native America - Language Is Life - Episode 4 (2023) | Full Documentary PBS America 2025-09-08 | Celebrate the power of Native languages and the inspirational people who are saving them. From secret recordings to Star Wars films dubbed in Navajo, follow the revolutionary steps transforming Native America.Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcast channel weekly highlights at pbsamerica.co.uk FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica
Native America - Women Rule - Episode 3 (2023) | Full Documentary PBS America 2025-09-07 | Native women are leading, innovating and inspiring in the arts, politics and protecting the planet. NATIVE AMERICA explores the diverse ways they carry forward deep traditions to better their communities, their lands and the world.Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcast channel weekly highlights at pbsamerica.co.uk FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica
Native America - Warrior Spirit - Episode 2 (2023) | Full Documentary PBS America 2025-09-06 | Across Native America, warrior traditions support incredible athletes and connect people to combat, games and glory. Celebrate and honor the men and women who live and breathe this legacy today.Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcast channel weekly highlights at pbsamerica.co.uk FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica
Native America - New Worlds - Episode 1 (2023) | Full Documentary PBS America 2025-09-05 | Native innovators lead a revolution in music, building, and space exploration. From the surface of Mars to the New York City hip hop scene to the Pine Ridge Reservation, Native traditions are transforming life on Earth and other worlds.Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcast channel weekly highlights at pbsamerica.co.uk FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica
Smarty Plants (2012) | Full Documentary PBS America 2025-09-03 | Featuring innovative camera techniques, great storytelling and dynamic scientists, “Smarty Plants” explores the multifaceted mysteries of plant behaviour, including their life cycle, sex, movement and social interaction with each other.Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcast channel weekly highlights at pbsamerica.co.uk FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica
Charley Pride: Im Just Me (2019) | Full Documentary | American Masters PBS America 2025-08-29 | Explore the history of the American South and its music through the life of country star Charley Pride. Raised in the brutally segregated Mississippi Delta, Pride’s buttery voice, talent, and steely resolve led him to the Country Music Hall of Fame. A GRAMMY Lifetime Achievement Award® winner, his journey shows the ways that artistic expression can triumph over prejudice and injustice.Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcast channel weekly highlights at pbsamerica.co.uk FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica
Secrets in the Worlds Largest Forest (2017) | Full Documentary PBS America 2025-08-27 | Uncover the secret life of trees, and how they work together to transform our world.Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcast channel weekly highlights at pbsamerica.co.uk FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica
Americas Untold Story: The 14th and 15th Colonies - Episode 4 (2017) | Full Documentary PBS America 2025-08-25 | Once the British colonists took control of Florida, they divided it into two parts, East and West Florida, which became the 14th and 15th British colonies. In 1812 the Patriot’s War began. Although East Florida won, in 1821 Spain handed both East and West Florida over to the Americans and Florida became U.S. territory.Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcast channel weekly highlights at pbsamerica.co.uk FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica
Americas Untold Story: British Are Coming, The - Episode 3 (2017) | Full Documentary PBS America 2025-08-24 | In 1763, at the end of the Seven Years War in Europe, Spain ceded Florida to England in order to keep its valuable port of Havana. The entire city of St. Augustine, except for a few families, fled to Cuba and Mexico to avoid British rule. This episode ends with the exile of 3000 Spanish residents of St. Augustine to Cuba. As the Spanish move out, the British move in - and with them, slavery.Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcast channel weekly highlights at pbsamerica.co.uk FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica
Americas Untold Story: Men of God, Men of Greed - Episode 2 (2017) | Full Documentary PBS America 2025-08-23 | A fleet of 42 pirate ships led by the Englishman Sir Francis Drake bore down on St. Augustine, and burned the entire town to the ground. By 1607 when Jamestown was founded, St. Augustine was undergoing urban renewal, but English colonists were ready to attack once again. In 1620 Plymouth was founded, and by 1664, 11 of the 13 British colonies had been established.Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcast channel weekly highlights at pbsamerica.co.uk FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica
Americas Untold Story: Struggle to Survive - Episode 1 (2017) | Full Documentary PBS America 2025-08-22 | We travel to Spanish archives to hear the firsthand accounts written in diaries discovered in the Archives of the Indies and in a private collection held by an ancestor of Pedro Menendez. This episode follows the survivors through their first year - through the artifacts and writings that unveil a very different America.Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcast channel weekly highlights at pbsamerica.co.uk FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica
The Platypus Guardian (2023) | Full Documentary PBS America 2025-08-20 | Witness the story of Pete Walsh, a Tasmanian photographer obsessed with one of nature’s least understood animals, the platypus. He discovers one by accident in the city’s creek and names her Zoom. With the help of experts, Pete learns about the platypus’ secret world, capturing unique footage of their behavior. Before it’s too late, he is on a mission to protect the species from urban development.Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcast channel weekly highlights at pbsamerica.co.uk FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica
Baby Animals: The Top Ten - Coolest Families (2023) | Full Documentary PBS America 2025-08-17 | Coolest Looking Families counts down the animal kingdom’s most visually captivating wildlife. From our human-like cousins the baby primates, to the cutest and enthralling animal families the baby felines, to the colorful world of the planet's bird family. Explore the life and times of these incredible animals with us in this fascinating episode.Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcast channel weekly highlights at pbsamerica.co.uk FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica
Baby Animals: The Top Ten - Weirdest (2023) | Full Documentary PBS America 2025-08-16 | Delve into the world of bizarre and unusual baby animals. From meat eating marsupials like the Numbat to the ever-enigmatic Sea Dragon covered in bony armor. With fascinating facts and expert insights, join us as we journey into the strange, wonderful, and weird world of the animal kingdom's oddest offspring!Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcast channel weekly highlights at pbsamerica.co.uk FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica
Baby Animals: The Top Ten - Cutest (2023) | Full Documentary PBS America 2025-08-15 | Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and so is cuteness. It’s not all about endearing looks, but also fascinating behaviors and ingenious survival techniques. From Meerkats using their instincts to thrive to belly-surfing Otter pups and Giant Panda babies, this is a list of baby animals that are universally adored by everyone making them all potential finalists in our TOP 10 Cutest episode.Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcast channel weekly highlights at pbsamerica.co.uk FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica
Baby Animals: The Top Ten - Fastest (2023) | Full Documentary PBS America 2025-08-14 | These baby animals may not be the speediest yet, but they have the potential to become some of the fastest creatures on Earth. With foals that can gallop super-fast, cheetah cubs that will reach speeds of about 120km/hour, and even peregrine falcon chicks that will grow up to be the fastest bird in the world, this episode showcases these incredible young animals and their need for total speed.Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcast channel weekly highlights at pbsamerica.co.uk FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica
Baby Animals: The Top Ten - Most Independent (2023) | Full Documentary PBS America 2025-08-13 | Meet the most independent baby animals that know how to walk, swim, or slither and feed themselves shortly after birth. From baby green sea turtles who must navigate sandy beaches to reach the sea when born, to that humble loner the domestic cat. Watch as we count down our top 10 most independent baby animals on planet earth. Join us and enjoy the show.Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcast channel weekly highlights at pbsamerica.co.uk FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica
Baby Animals: The Top Ten - Slowest | Full Documentary PBS America 2025-08-12 | Meet the world’s youngest animals that are sometimes lazy, sometimes energy efficient but always slow. From a sloth cub that instinctively preserves its energy stores by moving at two meters per minute to baby swans that hitchhike on their mother’s back, join us for our list of baby animals that all qualify as some of the slowest moving animals on planet earth.Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcast channel weekly highlights at pbsamerica.co.uk FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica
Baby Animals: The Top Ten - Cuddliest (2023) | Full Documentary PBS America 2025-08-11 | With warm layers of fur and feathers giving a vast array of baby animals a “cuddly appearance”, there’s more to these glorious coats than meets the eye. Vibrant colors and striking patterns ...natural camouflage that allows these creatures to hide in plain sight or dazzle lurking predators. Join us as we count down our ten most huggable, snuggly, cute baby animals.Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcast channel weekly highlights at pbsamerica.co.uk FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica
Baby Animals: The Top Ten - Strongest (2023) | Full Documentary PBS America 2025-08-10 | Explore our list of powerhouse baby animals, including saltwater crocodile hatchlings, who will develop the strongest bite force on the planet and an eagle chick capable of carrying prey a third of its body weight. In this episode we explore the unique physical attributes and behaviours that make these young creatures some of the greatest in all the animal kingdom.Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcast channel weekly highlights at pbsamerica.co.uk FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica
Baby Animals: The Top Ten - Only a Mother Could Love (2023) | Full Documentary PBS America 2025-08-09 | They may not be the most attractive youngsters, but each is appealing in their own extraordinary way. From piggyback riding Tasmanian Devil joeys to Hyena pups roaming the African savannah and even the common farm piglet snuffling in the dirt, we are counting down our TOP 10 Baby Animals Only a Mother Could Love.Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcast channel weekly highlights at pbsamerica.co.uk FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica
Baby Animals: The Top Ten - Most Mysterious (2023) | Full Documentary PBS America 2025-08-08 | Discover the most enigmatic baby animals on the planet. From the dainty Quokka, a marsupial from Western Australia that starts life a mere centimeter in length to extremely cute Arctic fox pups from beyond the Arctic Circle. We are counting down ten of the most enigmatic baby animals to be found on the planet. So, join us as we discover the secrets of their species.Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcast channel weekly highlights at pbsamerica.co.uk FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica
Baby Animals: The Top Ten - Smallest (2023) | Full Documentary PBS America 2025-08-07 | Explore the miniature world of young animals. Discover the tiniest newborns and those that never grow too big, including Baby Clownfish and Hummingbird chicks. With captivating visuals and expert commentary, this episode is perfect for nature enthusiasts and families who love learning about the youngest members of the animal kingdom in all their wonder.Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcast channel weekly highlights at pbsamerica.co.uk FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica
Baby Animals: The Top Ten - Babies with Bite (2023) | Full Documentary PBS America 2025-08-06 | Meet animals whose survival depends on their teeth and fangs. Featuring the world's deadliest land snake, the Taipan, and a baby hippopotamus with a bone-crushing bite. With stunning visuals and insightful commentary, discover what makes these animals so dependent on their bite. Don't miss this thrilling, educational and entertaining program.Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcast channel weekly highlights at pbsamerica.co.uk FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica
Quakers: The Quiet Revolutionaries (2018) | Full Documentary PBS America 2025-08-01 | Explore Quakerism from its beginnings in the 1600s to present day practice and ideology. American Quakers have been leading struggles for the abolition of slavery, equal rights for women, civil rights and the achievement of world peace for at least three centuries, and famous adherents William Penn, John Woolman, Alice Paul and others left an indelible mark on American society.Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcast channel weekly highlights at pbsamerica.co.uk FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica
Power Trip: The Story of Energy - War (2020) | Full Documentary PBS America 2025-07-28 | Energy can be both the cause and the instrument of modern war. Advances in energy have historically arisen during the urgency of wartime. Energy done the right way can lead to peace, energy done the wrong way leads to instability and conflict. WAR traces a centuries-long journey across the world to show us how energy changed the way we fight wars.Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcast channel weekly highlights at pbsamerica.co.uk FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica
Power Trip: The Story of Energy - Transportation (2020) | Full Documentary PBS America 2025-07-27 | Innovations in energy have revolutionized transportation over time from literal horsepower for horse drawn carriages to modern combustion engines, electric vehicles, and rockets. Machines help us travel over land and across the sky but require an enormous amount of energy. TRANSPORTATION traces a centuries-long journey across the world to show us the energy that brings us modern transportation.Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcast channel weekly highlights at pbsamerica.co.uk FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica
Power Trip: The Story of Energy - Cities (2020) | Full Documentary PBS America 2025-07-26 | Energy is all around us, hidden in every aspect of our lives. The future of cities and the future of energy are closely connected. Cities shape our relationship with the natural and built environment and consume 40% of U.S. energy. CITIES traces a centuries-long journey across the Middle East, Europe, Asia, and North America to show us the energy that gave us modern cities.Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcast channel weekly highlights at pbsamerica.co.uk FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica
The Black Church - Part 2 (2021) | Full Documentary PBS America 2025-07-26 | Discover how the Black Church expanded its reach to address social inequality and minister to those in need, from the Jim Crow South to the heroic phase of the civil rights movement and the Black Church’s role in the present.Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcast channel weekly highlights at pbsamerica.co.uk FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica
Power Trip: The Story of Energy - Wealth (2020) | Full Documentary PBS America 2025-07-25 | Before modern energy, wealth was tied to land ownership. Today, wealth is tied to energy and who controls it. Energy changes the way wealth is concentrated, creating a cascade of social and economic effects. WEALTH traces a centuries-long journey across the world to show us the energy that gives us wealth.Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcast channel weekly highlights at pbsamerica.co.uk FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica
The Black Church - Part 1 (2021) | Full Documentary PBS America 2025-07-25 | Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the roots of African American religion beginning with the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the extraordinary ways enslaved Africans preserved and adapted their faith practices from the brutality of slavery to emancipation.Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcast channel weekly highlights at pbsamerica.co.uk FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica
Power Trip: The Story of Energy - Food (2020) | Full Documentary PBS America 2025-07-24 | The miracles of energy enable a stable supply in our global food system. But when food goes from farm to table to landfill, that embedded energy is wasted. How do we harness energy to feed our growing population without the downsides of industrialization? FOOD traces a centuries-long journey across Europe, Asia, and the United States to show us the energy it takes to bring us our food.Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcast channel weekly highlights at pbsamerica.co.uk FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica
Power Trip: The Story of Energy - Water (2020) | Full Documentary PBS America 2025-07-23 | The story of energy begins with water. Today water and energy are interconnected — for better or worse. How can we make energy “less thirsty” and water less energy-intensive? WATER traces a centuries-long journey across the Middle East, Europe, Asia, and the United States to show the history of energy and water.Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcast channel weekly highlights at pbsamerica.co.uk FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica
Trailer | Ultimate Blitzkrieg: WWII Battle of Crete PBS America 2025-07-22 | This 3x I hr documentary tells the story of the famous WW2 battle and the four-year German occupation of the Greek island of Crete that followed. With the help of documentary footage from the day, CGI, expert contributors, and survivors re visit the island of Crete and its battlefields to tell the story of this unique and bloody battle and its aftermath.
Hemingway - “The Blank Page” (1944-1961): Episode Three (2021) | Full Documentary PBS America 2025-07-18 | Hemingway, reeling from his split with Martha, attaches himself to the U.S. Army as it moves through Normandy and liberates Paris. After the war he tries to start a new life with Mary Welsh but is beset with personal tragedies and professional mishaps. He publishes The Old Man and the Sea and wins the Nobel Prize but eventually is overcome by addiction, physical trauma and depression.Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcast channel weekly highlights at pbsamerica.co.uk FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica
Can Psychedelics Cure? (2022) | Full Documentary | NOVA PBS America 2025-07-16 | Hallucinogenic drugs--popularly called psychedelics--have been used by human societies for thousands of years. Today, scientists are taking a second look at many of these mind-altering substances--both natural and synthetic--and discovering that they can have profoundly positive clinical impacts, helping patients struggling with a range of afflictions from addiction to depression and PTSD.Welcome to PBS America, a channel curated for an international audience from America's Public Broadcasting Service, PBS. This is a factual focussed channel including award-winning American history, current affairs and science. SIGN UP to our UK broadcast channel weekly highlights at pbsamerica.co.uk FOLLOW us on X @PBSAmericaLIKE us on Facebook.com/pbsamerica
