Wednesdays, Feb. 19 and Feb. 26, 2025 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app + Encores Sunday, Feb. 23 and March 2 at 10 p.m. on KPBS 2 In the decade leading up to 1945, it’s estimated that the Nazis stole ...

It is precisely because the Mosul Museum director Zaid Ghazi Saadallah seems so composed during “Returning to Babylon” that his pain seems all the more acute, his anger just barely repressed.

There are only two accepted representations of William Shakespeare that are considered “official” – but could a portrait that has been hanging over a family’s mantelpiece for the last 50 years be the ...

Fifty years after the tragic shooting of President John F. Kennedy, Secrets of the Dead chronicles minute-by-minute the assassination as it was revealed in the CBS newsroom from the moment the ...

A forensic artist reconstructs the face of a woman buried as a vampire in 17-century Poland. Forensic artist Oscar Nilsson has worked alongside Swedish police forces for decades, modelling the faces ...

A search for the remains of Black Union soldiers murdered toward the end of the Civil War. Originally a supply depot for Union forces in Kentucky, Camp Nelson became the site where 10,000 Black ...

Secrets of the Dead: The Woman in the Iron Coffin follows forensic archaeologist Scott Warnasch and a team of historians and scientists as they investigate this woman’s story and the time in which she ...