October 20-26, 2025
NATURE - WALRUS: LIFE ON THIN ICE
From the concrete jungle of New York City to the tropical jungles in Costa Rica, witness never-before-seen animal behavior in a new season of television’s premiere natural history series Nature. In the Season 44 premiere, you'll head to the Arctic seas between Alaska and Russia, home to about 250,000 walruses.
October 13-19, 2025
AMERICAN MASTERS - MARLEE MATLIN: NOT ALONE ANYMORE
This documentary takes a closer look at Marlee Matlin’s life as a groundbreaking performer, whose meteoric and tumultuous rise to fame started in 1987 when she became the first Deaf actor to win an Academy Award for her role in Children of a Lesser God. At the age of twenty-one, Matlin was thrust into the national spotlight, becoming for many Americans the first Deaf person they saw on TV and overnight becoming the de-facto representative of the Deaf community.
October 6-12, 2025
From the LPB Vault: Uncle Earl - Louisiana's Colorful Governor
As part of LPB’s yearlong 50th Anniversary celebration, we’re opening our archives to feature Uncle Earl, an LPB original documentary on Earl K. Long, one of Louisiana’s most colorful and controversial governors—and the only sitting governor ever committed to a mental institution, not once, but twice. With rare archival footage and interviews from family, colleagues, and historians, this LPB production captures a colorful and complex chapter of Louisiana’s political history. Don’t miss this special vault broadcast, celebrating five decades of LPB storytelling.
