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Austin City Limits | Cimafunk & The Tribe
Cuban funk sensations Cimafunk and The Tribe wow in a must-see hour; the nine-piece powerhouse band makes a thrilling ACL debut with standouts from their soulful album El Alimento.
Expires November 12, 2025
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Independent Lens | Storm Lake
Does American democracy survive without the backbone of independent local journalism? Go inside The Storm Lake Times, a newspaper serving an Iowa town that has seen its fair share of changes in the 40 years since Big Agriculture came to the area. Pulitzer-winning editor Art Cullen and his family dedicate themselves to keeping the paper alive as local journalism across the country dies out.
Expires November 15, 2025
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NOVA | Zero to Infinity
Zero and infinity. These seemingly opposite, obvious, and indispensable concepts are relatively recent human inventions. Discover the surprising story of how these key concepts that revolutionized mathematics came to be – not just once, but over and over again as different cultures invented and re-invented them across thousands of years.
Expires November 16, 2025
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American Experience | Hard Hat Riot
On May 8, 1970, construction workers in NYC violently clashed with students protesting the Vietnam War, signaling the emergence of a new kind of class divide. Hard Hat Riot chronicles a struggling city, a flailing president, and a bloody juncture when the nation diverged ― culminating in a new political and cultural landscape that radically redefined American politics. FROM AMERICAN EXPERIENCE.
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The Cavern Sessions | Bronwyn Keith-Hynes
After years as Molly Tuttle’s virtuoso fiddler, Bronwyn Keith-Hynes steps into a spotlight all her own.
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Sacred Planet with Gulnaz Khan | Reclaiming Peru's Glaciers
Gulnaz follows the ancient Inca and modern Catholic paths confronting the Andes’ deglaciation. These spiritual traditions unite through engineering, pilgrimages, lawsuits, and prayer to face Peru’s climate crisis.
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The Great American Recipe | Season 4
Follow talented home cooks from different regions of the country as they compete weekly with their most memorable recipes. In the final week, the top three home cooks vie for a chance to win The Great American Recipe.
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Make A Circle
MAKE A CIRCLE follows a group of early educators who are determined to change a child care system where parents can’t afford to pay and teachers can’t afford to stay. Capturing the magic they create in the classroom, the struggles they endure at home, and their tireless efforts to elevate their profession, MAKE A CIRCLE is a promising blueprint for an early education system that benefits everyone.
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POV | DRIVER
After losing everything, Desiree Wood takes a second lease on life as a long-haul trucker. While she struggles to balance life on the road with her ambitions as the head of a driver-led movement run from the cab of her truck, Desiree and her sisterhood of truckers rally against the crushing forces of an industry that is indifferent to their survival.
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Great Performances | The Magic of Grace Bumbry
Discover Grace Bumbry’s inspiring rise to global opera fame. Spotlighting her historic performances, the film explores the racial barriers she overcame to triumph in her 1966 performance as "Carmen."
Big Cats 24/7 | New Beginnings
The core of the Xudum Pride has fled south, but a group of its young females surprises the team in the north. Meanwhile, tragedy strikes the cheetah mother, Pobe, and Lediba, the leopard, struggles to provide for her ever-growing cub.
Austin City Limits | Finneas
Groundbreaking singer, songwriter and producer FINNEAS takes center stage with songs from his solo outing For Cryin’ Out Loud! The ten-time Grammy-winning hitmaker dazzles with highlights and new gems detailing his sonic journey in a revelatory hour.
Atomic People
Combining their personal accounts with archive footage, "Atomic People" features a number of voices from some of the only people left on Earth to have survived a nuclear bomb.
Walter Presents
Velvet | Season 4
Five years after Alberto’s presumed death, Ana returns to Velvet as a celebrated designer and mother, ready to launch a bold pret-a-porter line. Cristina reappears, feigning redemption but hiding the truth: Alberto is alive. Old rivalries reignite, alliances shift, and long-buried secrets threaten everything Ana has built. From Walter Presents, in Spanish with English subtitles.
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