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PBS Hawai‘i Presents offers independent documentaries, dramas, music showcases and special event programming about Hawai‘i, by Hawai‘i producers.

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Journey Home to the USS Arizona. Photo By Julie Thurston Photography

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Journey Home to the USS Arizona

Tuesday, November 26th, 2019

  One of the few crew members from the USS Arizona who survived the Pearl Harbor attack, Raymond Haerry Sr., passed away at the age of 94 on September 27, 2016. This documentary follows Haerry’s family as they travel from New Jersey to O‘ahu to place his ashes aboard the sunken battleship.   Preview   […]

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Remember Pearl Harbor

Tuesday, November 26th, 2019

  Narrated by vactor Tom Selleck, this film chronicles the personal stories of veterans and citizens who witnessed the attack by the Japanese on the American Pacific Fleet on December 7, 1941, launching the United States into World War II. Using archival footage and photos and graphics, the documentary shows in detail the bombings on […]

PBS HAWAI‘I PRESENTS - Lifeline: Pearl Harbor's Unknown Hero

PBS HAWAI‘I PRESENTS
Lifeline: Pearl Harbor’s Unknown Hero

Tuesday, November 26th, 2019

  Narrated by actor Gary Sinise, PBS HAWAI‘I PRESENTS Lifeline: Pearl Harbor’s Unknown Hero tells the story of how Joe George became an unlikely hero, and how he was recognized with a Bronze Medal more than 70 years later. “Even though Pearl Harbor was attacked 77 years ago, this is a story people have never […]

PBS HAWAII PRESENTS: Living Your Dying - Rev. Mitsuo “Mits” Aoki, a pioneer of Hawaii’s hospice movement.

PBS HAWAI‘I PRESENTS
Living Your Dying

Wednesday, November 13th, 2019

  Rev. Mitsuo “Mits” Aoki, a pioneer of Hawai‘i’s hospice movement and founder of the University of Hawaii School of Religion, passed away in August 2010. This film from 2003 highlights his own transformative near-death experience; his therapeutic work with terminally-ill cancer patients; the death of his wife Evelyn; and thoughts about his own mortality. […]

PBS HAWAI‘I PRESENTS - Papa Mau: The Wayfinder

PBS HAWAI‘I PRESENTS
Papa Mau: The Wayfinder

Tuesday, November 5th, 2019

  Shortly after Hōkūle‘a was built in the 1970s, a search began for someone who could teach the art of navigation without modern instruments – native knowledge that had been all but lost. Master navigator Mau Piailug of Micronesia agreed to share what he knew. He played a critical role in Hōkūle‘a’s maiden voyage to […]