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PBS America Welcome to PBS America, the UK channel from America's PBS PBS America is a British television channel from America's Public Broadcasting Service.

Showcasing award-winning American history, science, current affairs, plus arts and culture shows alongside the works of living legend Ken Burns, the output is all hand-picked by a British team. PBS America is free to air on Freeview 83, Sky 534, Virgin Media 243, Freesat 155 and now Amazon.

30/11/2025

One to Watch: Ancient Egypt: Life and Death in the Valley of the Kings
Starts Monday 1st December, 9:50pm

Ancient Egypt captivates us like few other vanished worlds. But what was it like to live there as an ordinary person, 3,500 years ago? In this two-part programme, Egyptologist Dr. Joann Fletcher goes in search of people like us – not the great Pharaohs but the everyday folk who built and populated this incredible civilisation.

29/11/2025

One to Watch: The Story of Egypt | Starts Monday 1st December, 8:30pm

In this four-part series, Egyptologist Prof. Joann Fletcher travels back in time nearly 20,000 years to chart the rise and fall of one of the world’s greatest lost civilisations: Ancient Egypt. Beginning her journey by visiting the site of the first settlements along the River Nile, Fletcher explores some of the world’s earliest surviving art, writing and stone structures to discover how, in just a few centuries, Egyptians progressed from primitive farmers to pyramid builders.

Don't Miss: Lost Cities of Rome | UK PremiereTonight, 8:50pm Rome created the largest empire in the ancient world. It’s ...
28/11/2025

Don't Miss: Lost Cities of Rome | UK Premiere
Tonight, 8:50pm

Rome created the largest empire in the ancient world. It’s armies, organisation and building innovation created a vast territory linked by roads. The Roman Empire covered all of the Mediterranean, much of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. Many of these cities lie in ruins today, others buried and many others are forgotten particularly those on the extremes of empire, where land and territory was often contested or changed hands; discover these cities in this programme.

Don't Miss - Witness to A Massacre: Nanjing 1937 Starts Wednesday 26th November, 6.20pmThis series investigates the hero...
26/11/2025

Don't Miss - Witness to A Massacre: Nanjing 1937
Starts Wednesday 26th November, 6.20pm

This series investigates the heroic acts of a small group of foreigners who witnessed one of the twentieth century’s forgotten massacres. In December 1937, the Imperial Japanese Army invaded and occupied the capital city of the Republic of China. The Chinese government, and most of the army had already fled the city and it was largely defenceless. But this did nothing to deter the Japanese and a bloodbath followed. It is estimated that up to 300,000 people died in the first few weeks of the occupation alone and 20,000 women were violated.

26/11/2025

One to Watch: Lost Cities of Rome | UK Premiere
Friday 28th November, 8:50pm

Rome created the largest empire in the ancient world. It’s armies, organisation and building innovation created a vast territory linked by roads. The Roman Empire covered all of the Mediterranean, much of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. Many of these cities lie in ruins today, others buried and many others are forgotten particularly those on the extremes of empire, where land and territory was often contested or changed hands; discover these cities in this programme.

Don't Miss: Wrecks That Changed The World | Starts Tonight, 7.20pmThe world's oceans hide three million shipwrecks. Each...
24/11/2025

Don't Miss: Wrecks That Changed The World | Starts Tonight, 7.20pm

The world's oceans hide three million shipwrecks. Each one is a time capsule - a moment frozen at the point of sinking; a moment lives changed forever. Mallinson Sadler Productions, the makers of National Geographic's acclaimed ‘Drain the Oceans’, delivers a deep-sea mystery series that takes viewers on a thrilling journey to the bottom of the sea. Join real-life shipwreck hunters as they uncover the gripping stories behind the most fascinating wrecks in our oceans.

24/11/2025

One to Watch: Witness to A Massacre: Nanjing 1937
Starts Wednesday 26th November, 6.20pm

This series investigates the heroic acts of a small group of foreigners who witnessed one of the twentieth century’s forgotten massacres. In December 1937, the Imperial Japanese Army invaded and occupied the capital city of the Republic of China. The Chinese government, and most of the army had already fled the city and it was largely defenceless. But this did nothing to deter the Japanese and a bloodbath followed. It is estimated that up to 300,000 people died in the first few weeks of the occupation alone and 20,000 women were violated.

22/11/2025

One to Watch: Wrecks That Changed The World
Starts Monday 24th November, 7.20pm

The world's oceans hide three million shipwrecks. Each one is a time capsule - a moment frozen at the point of sinking; a moment lives changed forever. Mallinson Sadler Productions, the makers of National Geographic's acclaimed ‘Drain the Oceans’, delivers a deep-sea mystery series that takes viewers on a thrilling journey to the bottom of the sea. Join real-life shipwreck hunters as they uncover the gripping stories behind the most fascinating wrecks in our oceans.

Don't Miss: The Exiles: Secretly Deported | Starts Tonight, 6.20pmThe Exiles is a two-part series that tells the story o...
20/11/2025

Don't Miss: The Exiles: Secretly Deported | Starts Tonight, 6.20pm

The Exiles is a two-part series that tells the story of love and loss during an era of racially motivated deportations from the UK and Australia. At the end of the Second World War, on opposite sides of the world, Asian men were forcibly deported from their adopted homes, tearing them away from wives and children and thrusting them into an uncertain future.

One to Watch: Jungle War | Starts Tonight, 8.40pm The series begins in the Second World War, in jungles of the Pacific. ...
18/11/2025

One to Watch: Jungle War | Starts Tonight, 8.40pm

The series begins in the Second World War, in jungles of the Pacific. As Japan shocks the world with the speed of its advance, the Allies scramble to halt what seems to be an unstoppable force.

18/11/2025

One to Watch - The Exiles: Secretly Deported
Starts Thursday 20 November, 6:20pm

The Exiles is a two-part series that tells the story of love and loss during an era of racially motivated deportations from the UK and Australia. At the end of the Second World War, on opposite sides of the world, Asian men were forcibly deported from their adopted homes, tearing them away from wives and children and thrusting them into an uncertain future.

16/11/2025

One to Watch: Jungle Wars | Starts Tuesday 18 November, 8:40pm

The series begins in the Second World War, in jungles of the Pacific. As Japan shocks the world with the speed of its advance, the Allies scramble to halt what seems to be an unstoppable force.

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PBS America is the British TV channel from America's public service broadcaster, PBS, on Freeview 91, Sky channel 174, Virgin Media 273, Freesat 155, My5 and Amazon Channels. Showcasing award-winning American history, science, current affairs, plus arts and culture shows alongside the works of living legend Ken Burns, output is all hand-picked by a British team.