Documentary

American Experience: The Codebreaker tells the fascinating story of Elizebeth Smith Friedman, the groundbreaking cryptanalyst whose painstaking work decoding thousands of messages for the U.S. government would send infamous gangsters to prison and bring...

Chile's Torres del Paine National Park is home to a massive ice mountain range where graceful and interesting animals paint a surprisingly colorful landscape. See the tawny-colored pumas roaming the frozen tundra along with colorful caracaras, guanacos...

Earth is alive because of liquid water and the human story is intimately connected to our relationship with it. But the growth of our civilizations has created a dangerous dependence on a precious resource that may be about to run out. Producers: David...

San Francisco, 1900: A chance post-mortem examination revealed that a Chinese immigrant had perished from bubonic plague. As the city's racially animated and profit-driven response initially failed to stem the epidemic, a federal health official faced an...

Travel back in time, from the Arctic Ocean to Pacific tide pools, with a pioneering group of scientists who make surprising discoveries that transform human understanding of nature and ecology. Based on a book of the same name, The Serengeti Rules had...

This there-part series explores monumental changes in the workplace and the long-term impact on workers, employers, educators and communities. Employment is part of the American Dream. Will the future provide opportunities for jobs that sustain families...

It is a mission that might prove impossible. In the fall of 2020, a NASA spacecraft called OSIRIS REx attempts to reach out and grab a piece of an asteroid named Bennu and bring it back to Earth. The OSIRIS REx team has just three chances to extend it's...

In 1989, Amy Tan's first novel, The Joy Luck Club, was published to great commercial and critical success. With the blockbuster film adaption that followed as well as additional novels, a libretto, short stories and memoirs, Ms. Tan has firmly...

Race, policing and the struggle to hold departments accountable. In the wake of George Floyd's killing, New Yorker writer Jelani Cobb examines prospects for reform, and returns to the case of one troubled department he first visited in 2016. Narrator:...

Virtually every animal sleeps. But why? Why do we need to spend nearly a third of our lives in such a defenseless state? Scientists are peering more deeply into the sleeping brain than ever before, discovering just how powerful sleep can be, playing a...

In Yorkshire, a unique English garden rigged with over 50 cameras givesa rare insight into the dramatic life of a mother weasel as she tries to raise her first family. And new science uncovers the problem solving abilities of the honey badger, the...

Lucy Worsley explores three extraordinary royal palaces: the Tower of London, Hampton Court and Kensington Palace. During lockdown they're closed to visitors, but Lucy has the keys. From William the Conqueror to Princess Diana, they tell the story of...