Television

Wednesday, May 20 at 7 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. The compelling story of how San Francisco secured its fabled water supply, the Hetch Hetchy reservoir in Yosemite National Park.

Wednesday, August 5 at 8 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. NHK asked people to film their lives during the pandemic. They include health care workers on the front lines, an Italian opera singer, a small-town official in France's hardest-hit area, and a Manhattan bagel shop owner. In this collection of videos, we witness people trying to do their part, by protecting their loved ones, reaching out to their communities and forging a "new normal" as they learn to live with the novel coronavirus. As the world faces its greatest crisis in generations, their stories overlap with ours, offering examples of human compassion, resilience, and hope.

Monday, October 12 at 9 pm on KRCB TV in the North Bay. Through their music and work in communities and schools, First Nation indigenous hip-hop artists in Canada lead an effort to right long standing social injustices, heal personal traumas, and preserve their cultures.

Monday, October 14 at 9 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. Trying to satisfy everyone, Zischl strikes a deal with Goldhammer and incurs the wrath of Karli Spitz.

 

 

 

Sunday, January 5 at 8 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. Wendell Castle: A Portrait captures the life of the master furniture artist, designer, sculptor, and educator. Through Castle’s own words and interviews with family, friends, and colleagues, viewers will learn about his early years as an artist, his creative process, and the vision for his work.

Sunday, January 19 at 7 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. Features four tales about how the Channel Islands were settled by people of European descent. One account includes Tim Vail, a fourth-generation rancher on Santa Rosa Island who shares a personal history of his family’s involvement there while lamenting the end of their cattle operation after a century. Also chronicled are the maritime dangers posed by the Channel Islands and its waters holding the wrecks of more than 500 vessels. Catalina, the most widely known of the Channel Islands and the only one still privately owned, was developed by William Wrigley, Jr. who purchased the island sight unseen in 1919. Its glory years of movie stars, the Chicago Cubs, and big band dancing, as well as its struggles to stay relevant today are chronicled by Wrigley’s great-grand-daughter Alison Rusack.

Wednesday, January 29 at 7 pm on KRCB TV in the North Bay. Learn the definitive true story behind one of the best-loved families in TV drama and see how Corfu shaped the personalities and ambitions of each Durrell. It's an outlandish story of expeditions, fame, heartbreak, and a zoo. Hosted by Keeley Hawes.

Sunday, November 28 at 6:30 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. Viewers will discover how the food choices they make each day – and, most importantly, when they make them – can impact their health, energy, waistline, attitude, and the way they age.

Thursday, May 6 at 8 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. According to a popular study, 95% of adolescents own a cell phone and 45% are online almost constantly. When Cellphones Come to School, a new timely, informative, and provocative one-hour documentary from high school teacher Anne Tran, shows what happens when cell phones end up in classrooms and the impact on learning that results. Featuring interviews with a diverse range of students, teachers, and experts, it highlights both positive and negative outcomes and points the way toward creating a better understanding of the national debate around the role cellphones might and do play in classroom education settings.

Tuesday, May 11 at 9 pm on KRCB TV in the North Bay. Hear the extraordinary story of bravery and hope after Cyclone Idai strikes Mozambique. The world races to help rescue and support survivors from flooding.

Tuesday, May 4 at 9 pm on KRCB TV in the North Bay. Spurred on by the death of her husband, Diane Rehm crosses the country to take an in-depth look at medical aid in dying. She speaks to people on all sides of the issue, uncovering the pros and cons, and the facts and the myths surrounding this controversial practice that is now legal in nine states and the District of Columbia.

Wednesday, July 29 at 8 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. Wilder Than Wild: Fire, Forests, and the Future reveals how fire suppression and climate change have exposed our forests and wildland-urban landscapes to large, high severity wildfires, while greenhouse gases released from these fires contribute to global warming. In this one-hour documentary, filmmaker Kevin White takes us on a journey from the Rim Fire of 2013 to the wine country wildfires of 2017 and beyond. Along the way, we learn how the proactive use of prescribed fire can reduce reliance on reactive fire suppression, we see a California tribe renew their tradition of cultural fire, and we meet stakeholder groups working with scientists and resource managers to build consensus on how to restore and manage the lands we love and depend on.

Late summer is grape harvest season in Sonoma County, an extremely important time for Sonoma County’s billion dollar wine industry. Unfortunately, now, because of climate change, harvest coincides with California’s annual fire season.

 

That puts harvest workers, like Anabel Garcia, on the front lines. They have to endure long, hard days working in hazardous conditions and breathing smoky air. “You can feel it in your throat,” says Garcia. “And it’s harder to breathe.”

 

Although farm and agricultural workers, like Garcia, are protected by California’s strong labor laws, some don’t feel that enough is being done to protect these workers.

 

“If we value the wine, we should value the people who do the work to produce this wine,” says Max Bell Alper, Executive Director of North Bay Jobs With Justice.

 

Produced by Adam Grossberg and Chelsea Wood

 

Teen Alex Cho is an avid East Bay birder, photographer and artist who says birdwatching is contagious. His parents Brenda and Richard concur, as they have joined son Alex on many outings. Bay Area Bountiful joins them for a winter birding adventure at Fremont's Coyote Hills Regional Park on a beautiful cold morning. Alex keeps close track of his sightings with the popular iBird app. He also uses photographs and sketches to record what he sees: an abundance of wildlife which is present and active at this fascinating time of year.

 

Special thanks:

 

SF Bay Bird Observatory

 

L.A. Birders

 

Produced by Rick Bacigalupi

Some may think winter is a quiet time for nature in the Bay Area. SF Bay Bird Observatory biologist and lifelong birder Alvaro Jaramillo has news for them: during wintertime in our region the bird population explodes! He points out many resident and migrating species of sparrow along the trail to Cowell Ranch Beach, and comments on ocean birds when he reaches the shoreline. Raptors are also active at this time of year and a few fly by before the end of this walk just south of Half Moon Bay. Alvaro takes a moment to converse directly with the birds!

 

For more information:

Special thanks:
https://www.labirders.org

 

Produced by Rick Bacigalupi

Monday, January 21 at 9 pm on KRCB TV in the North Bay. Looks back at the life, leadership, and legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The program follows King’s career from his hiring at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church and leadership of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, through his death on April 4th, 1968 in Memphis. The documentary includes interviews with people who participated in well-known events of the Civil Rights Movement: the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Freedom Rides, the Birmingham Children’s March, Selma, and the Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike.

Saturday, February 9 at 8 pm on KRCB TV in the North Bay. For over thirty years, American children grew up watching Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood on PBS. Mr. Rogers offered a calm and stable presence, tackling life's weightiest issues in a simple, direct way. Won't You Be My Neighbor? reflects on Fred Rogers’ legacy of kindness, and the profound and lasting effect his innovative approach to television had on millions of children.

One of the year's most acclaimed films, Won't You Be My Neighbor? expertly weaves in precious archival clips, rare personal footage, and interviews with friends, family, and Fred Rogers himself, to paint an intimate portrait of a man beloved by millions, whose example of empathy, love, and patience is as necessary as ever.

Tuesday, August 13 at 9 pm on KRCB TV in the North Bay. For all of us, some moments were so huge that they're still relevant decades later. Same for music fans. The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show. Dylan going electric. And of course, there was Woodstock. Even now Woodstock still has meaning. Its mix of music, culture, and idealism resonates across the years. It gave youth a voice. It changed the music business and energized activists. From stadium shows to the #MeToo movement, it still echoes 50 years later.

Wednesday, April 22 at 8 pm on KRCB, PBS member station. A month into war and with Warsaw destroyed, Harry is desperate for news while Kasia joins the Polish resistance.

Monday, August 13 at 9 pm on KRCB TV in the North Bay. Over the course of five decades, Kenneth W. Rendell amassed the largest and most comprehensive private collection of original World War II memorabilia in the world. Narrated by Dan Aykroyd, World War II: Saving The Reality opens the doors to this private museum located outside Boston.