PBS Hawaiʻi Presents features independent documentaries, dramas, music showcases and special event programs about Hawaiʻi, by Hawaiʻi producers.

Air Date: Thu, Oct 1, 2026 8:30 PM
In 1998, a locally-made film exposed what Native Hawaiians had written, talked and sung about for a century: the true story of how and why Hawai‘i became part of the United States.
Air Date: Thu, Sep 24, 2026 9:00 PM

A 1995 film by Tom Coffman that chronicles the islands’ history. The documentary features Kumu John Keola Lake sharing stories and chants; Herb Kāne, renowned artist and co-founder of the Polynesian Voyaging Society; and scholar and author Rubellite Kawena Johnson.

Air Date: Thu, Sep 17, 2026 10:00 PM

Follow Isaac Hoʻopiʻi in the years after he rescued victims from the Pentagon in the 9/11 attacks.

Air Date: Thu, Sep 17, 2026 8:30 PM

Hawaiʻi mirrored Western culture after annexation but a renaissance revived language, mele and hula.

Air Date: Sat, Sep 12, 2026 9:00 PM

About six months after 9/11, Hawai‘i TV journalist-turned-independent producer Emme Tomimbang Burns learned that two teenaged daughters of a fallen Bronx, New York firefighter, Ray Meisenheimer, were planning to perform a dance in honor of their father at a 9/11 remembrance event in their Long Island community.

Air Date: Thu, Sep 10, 2026 8:30 PM

Western contact began a chain of events that forever changed the Hawaiian Islands.

Air Date: Sat, Sep 5, 2026 8:00 PM

Narrated by Raiatea Helm, this PBS Hawai‘i documentary uncovers Hawaiʻi’s deep, global impact on modern music despite the political struggles they faced at home.

Air Date: Thu, Sep 3, 2026 8:30 PM

Chants tell the story of Polynesian explorers discovering and settling the Hawaiian Islands.

Air Date: Thu, Aug 27, 2026 8:30 PM

Two women return to the atoll where they grew up and find the atoll and themselves forever changed.

Air Date: Thu, Aug 20, 2026 8:30 PM

Hawaiʻi-based emergency room physician Darragh O’Carroll travels to Australia to investigate the dramatic effects of climate change on plant, animal and human life in the land down under.

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