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  • 1983
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    Newton's Apple

    Newton's Apple

    8.00 1983 HD

    Newton's Apple is an American educational television program produced and developed by KTCA, and distributed to PBS stations in the United States...

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  • 2022
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    Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin

    7.67 2022 HD

    Explore the revolutionary life of one of the 18th century’s most consequential and compelling personalities, whose work and words unlocked the...

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  • 1987
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    Trying Times

    Trying Times

    6.50 1987 HD

    This half-hour sitcom anthology series that aired on PBS from 1987 to 1989 is about people struggling with the daily routines of life.

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  • 1996
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    The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century

    The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century

    8.25 1996 HD

    The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century is a 1996 documentary series that aired on PBS. It chronicles World War I over eight episodes. It...

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  • 1996
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    Adventures from the Book of Virtues

    Adventures from the Book of Virtues

    9.20 1996 HD

    Growing up can be confusing! When Zach and Annie face difficulties in their lives, they go to special place called Plato’s Peak. There,...

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  • 2013
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    Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle

    Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle

    7.50 2013 HD

    Examines the dawn of the comic book genre and its powerful legacy, as well as the evolution of the characters who leapt from the pages over the last...

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  • 2024
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    Dante: Inferno to Paradise

    Dante: Inferno to Paradise

    6.00 2024 HD

    The riveting life and times of Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) and his soaring masterpiece "The Divine Comedy" – one of the greatest achievements...

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  • 2016
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    Six Wives with Lucy Worsley

    Six Wives with Lucy Worsley

    6.79 2016 HD

    In an ambitious and groundbreaking approach to drama and history featuring dramatic reconstruction, historian Lucy Worsley time travels back to the...

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  • 2012
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    Last Tango in Halifax

    Last Tango in Halifax

    7.14 2012 HD

    Celia and Alan are both widowed and in their seventies. When their respective grandsons put their details on Facebook, they rediscover a passionate...

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  • 1984
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    Computer Chronicles

    Computer Chronicles

    7.00 1984 HD

    The Computer Chronicles was an American television series, broadcast during 1981-2002 on Public Broadcasting Service public television, which...

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  • 2011
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    Prohibition

    Prohibition

    7.88 2011 HD

    The history of the rise, rule and fall of the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and the entire era it encompassed (1920-33)....

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  • 2003
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    Soundstage

    Soundstage

    1 2003 HD

    WTTW’s legendary and groundbreaking music series filmed in the intimate Grainger Studio presents spectacular performances that make you feel...

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  • 2022
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    Raggs

    Raggs

    6.00 2022 HD

    Raggs stars five members of a canine band, Raggs, Trilby, Pido, B. Max and Razzles, and their wise-cracking pet cat, Dumpster.

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  • 1974
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    Spidey Super Stories

    Spidey Super Stories

    1 1974 HD

    A live-action, recurring skit on the PBS children's television series The Electric Company. Episodes featured the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man,...

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  • 2013
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    Mr Selfridge

    Mr Selfridge

    6.97 2013 HD

    Mr. Selfridge recounts the real life story of the flamboyant and visionary American founder of Selfridge's, London's lavish department store. Set in...

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  • 1976
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    The Adams Chronicles

    The Adams Chronicles

    7.20 1976 HD

    The Adams Chronicles is a thirteen-episode miniseries by PBS that aired in 1976 to commemorate the American Bicentennial.

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  • 2011
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    Bluegrass Underground

    Bluegrass Underground

    9.00 2011 HD

    A musical adventure series emanating from The Caverns in Tennessee's majestic Cumberland Mountains. Celebrating the diversity of America’s...

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  • 2018
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    The Dictator's Playbook

    The Dictator's Playbook

    7.50 2018 HD

    Learn how six dictators, from Mussolini to Saddam Hussein, shaped the 20th century. How did they seize and lose power? What forces were against them?...

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  • 2012
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    Blank on Blank

    Blank on Blank

    7.00 2012 HD

    Vintage interview tapes. New animations. The mission is simple: curate and transform journalists' unheard interviews with American icons. The future...

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  • 1981
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    The Woodwright's Shop

    The Woodwright's Shop

    9.00 1981 HD

    The Woodwright's Shop is a traditional woodworking show hosted by Roy Underhill on the Public Broadcasting Service in the United States. It is one of...

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