PBS Documentaries
 

Curious to know if anyone else enjoys these, and which are your favorites.

Personally, I love Ken Burns' masterpieces, but have to take the "darker" ones a little at the time. LOVE his Country Music !

I like the series American Experience and American Masters.

Thanks for starting this thread. I’ve been watching Frontline PBS.

Frontline is one of my favorites! Especially since they started putting episodes up on Youtube.

Yep. I subscribe to PBS on YT. They have something new quite often.

I’m up watching this on Frontline PBS. This is the very reason why I won’t drive behind or around semi trucks if I don’t have to. So dangerous.
https://youtu.be/1LyaWzOesXk

I love PBS! The Ken Burns series on the “History of Baseball” remains one of my favorites.
And cheerfulgreek, the series on the dangers of semi truck rigs has really hit home with me; I thought about it as we drove back and forth to Nashville, TN, over the weekend.

I watch a lot of American history. I don’t necessarily focus on PBS specifically, but I’m currently watching a series on the Ku Klux Klan that just happens to be by PBS. It’s really interesting.
https://youtu.be/D4ZF70ogq0I

CG, did you see this one? I thought you’d find it interesting knowing that you reside in Minnesota and subscribe to PBS.
https://youtu.be/XWQfDbbQv9E

I mostly watch PBS, non-fiction and dramas. (I mostly watch on Passport, which comes with a donation to your local PBS station.)

I loved the American Experience about the origins of the game Monopoly. The US & the Holocaust was excellent (though I had to watch an episode of Mary Berry's Favorites after each one, since they made me angry.) And the Ben Franklin one was terrific.

It looks interesting! I'll be watching it during the next baseball game...

LOVING how many other people enjoy documentaries of all sorts!! I knew I could count on the intellectually curious of GreekChat!

Some of those Holocaust documentaries are crazy insane, and really disturbing to watch. They leave very little out.
You’ll find it interesting, honeychile. A lot of facts were mentioned that I knew nothing about. It’s a two part series. When you watch the first part, the second part will also automatically show. I enjoyed it. I always love learning new things.

I’m so glad it was on your mind, that way you’re being extra careful, PGD-GRAD. I especially avoid being around them during the winter months because they can jack knife.
I have not seen that one. Thank you for posting it, Phrozen. I will definitely watch it tonight. My daughter loves dinosaurs so she and I have been watching a PBS 4-part series on them. She wants to be a paleontologist and she’s only 6. :) — she asked me once… “Mom, if dinosaurs didn’t die, would you be able to help them if they were sick?” lol

Lol she sounds like a cute, smart kid. That’s actually a good question. Did you tell her that you could? You’re a vet, so could you? Don’t reptiles get fleas, ticks and viruses??

Thank you, Phrozen. Yes, she is smart. :)

Well, a lot of the parasites that plagued the dinosaurs have gone extinct, so I’d only be able to go off of modern fleas/ticks and other present day parasites behavior. I mean, if we’re talking dinosaurs and fleas for example …. fleas can be enticed to take blood from lizards, but they generally will not seek out reptiles in nature, probably because there’s little place for concealment. But, if dinosaurs had permanent or semi-permanent resting areas, then I would think these areas made ideal domains for flea larvae. So, it’s possible that a few flea larvae actually developed under the skin of dinosaurs, just as some do today on mammals.

And back then, fleas could have also possibly mechanically transmitted viruses to dinosaurs just as present day fleas do the myxomatosis virus of rabbits. I’m just guessing though.

It’s hard to determine if I could or not, but I told her yes because she already thinks I’m Super Mom. :p

ETA: this is the series she’s been watching on PBS.
https://youtu.be/i5cXQj80PxM

CG, it’s funny you used fleas as an example. I posted on another thread that I switched vets because my dog’s previous vet was terrible. How do you do a check up, and then have the dog leave without being checked for fleas? He had them before and after that visit because not only were they tearing him up, those little mofos were tearing my ass up too. I finally got a vet that got rid of them.

So I watched this last night, Phrozen. I’m at work now, so I’ll post my thoughts on it this evening. I’m really not surprised, honestly.

I’m not a PBS watcher, but I’ll watch videos that I think match the standard I’m teaching. I’m a 7th grade social studies teacher. I have shown PBS documentaries to my students because they’re very informative. There really isn’t such a thing as a “Jim Crow North” though. Jim Crow is Jim Crow. Jim Crow isn’t just a southern thing. Jim Crow is anything south of the Canadian border. Today, it’s just a more advanced version of it. This is the kind of thread where we can learn from each other.

I saw the Holocaust was brought up too. 6 million people murdered — that’s just what was recorded. The actual numbers were much higher than that.

Cool. Looking forward to it. But will you be able to do that without bringing Donald Trump into the mix? Lol
I never looked at it that way. Makes sense.

lol
Hilarious!

No, I was just going to say how sad it is. Ya know, there were millions of dollars lost during the Jim Crow era due to turning business away from paying customers. The last time I checked, the whole purpose of going into business is to make a profit so you can make a living.

Pretty much every documentary series that they show, I watch. Frontline, POV, American Experience, Ken Burns, Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., etc.. I am a huge fan of PBS and my local PBS station KQED. I know it’s not a documentary, but Finding Your Roots & Stories From the Stage are two of my favorites as documentary type programming. I enjoy all their programming for the most part.

My mama was in charge of programs for the Western Pennsylvania Genealogical Society, and had Dr. Gates in for a program waaaay back in his career. Super nice guy!

I’m watching this right now. It’s really interesting. Sad to watch but interesting.
https://youtu.be/ARLTyyEKpjE?si=YX7aDqZAisiIUCiI

It may have been on before but I’ve been watching Once Upon A Time In Northern Ireland. It’s good but holy cats is it gut wrenching. We have no idea the hell they went through for so long.

What’s that on? Is it on Prime/Netflix or anything like that?

https://youtu.be/Af3XVQMmBGQ?si=_dZ_4c-0LdScTRat

Not PBS but still a good documentary.

I don’t like the newer Frontline episodes (hyper focused on news events that I already know too much about) but the older ones (maybe 2015 back) are great. Occasionally I will come across some 90s episodes on YT and they’re still amazing.

I was up watching this. It’s like 3 years old, but still really good. It’s not a PBS documentary, but it’s still a really interesting watch. So, I thought this would be the perfect thread for it.
https://youtu.be/YAqcQ_Ycro4?si=t8OJHRiQ93SEfDXz

I always liked Frontline and American Experience. My two favorite PBS docs are from mid-90s, the "Eyes on the Prize" series about the civil rights movement and "Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern" about the filmmakers parents and farm debt.

I have not watched anything on PBS for years..... But when I did, I watched British comedy: "Are You Being Served" and "Keeping Up Appearances". I also occasionally watched "Yan Can Cook", Rick Steves "European Travels" and "Wild America".

For the record, I watch about <5 hrs of TV a week. I don not have on-line streaming subscriptions.

I have not watched anything on PBS for years..... But when I did, I watched British comedy: "Are You Being Served" and "Keeping Up Appearances". I also occasionally watched "Yan Can Cook", Rick Steves "European Travels" and "Wild America".

For the record, I watch about <5 hrs of TV a week. I don not have on-line streaming subscriptions.