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Travel back to the 1930s, when dust storms ravaged the parched and overplowed southern plains, turning bountiful wheat fields into desert. Disease, hardship and death followed, yet people stayed, refusing to give up on their land and way of life.

PBS Intl. is bringing a squad of sports-themed documentaries to MipTV to tie in with the Olympic Games that'll run this summer in Paris.

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Rachel Carson Sunday, March 24, 20245:30-7:00 p.m. on WOUBMary-Louise Parker Is Voice of Rachel CarsonWhen Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was published in 1962, the book

Meet the unsung heroes of the movement and relive the fiery, dramatic and unrelenting campaign that led to passage of the 19th Amendment, granting American women the vote and ushering in the largest expansion of voting rights in U.S. history.

American Experience The Man Who Tried to Feed the World  New Documentary About Norman Borlaug, the Nobel Prize Winner Whose  “Green Revolution” Transformed the World The Man Who Tried

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE The Mine WarsSunday, July 31, 20226:00-8:00 p.m. on WOUBThe Bitter Battle Fought By a “People Made of Steel”At the dawn of the 20th century, coal was the fuel that powe

Explore the story of Florida's Everglades, America's greatest wetland. A tale of greed, hubris and destruction, the film chronicles the repeated efforts to conquer what was once seen as a useless wasteland and the passionate efforts to preserve it.