Henry Louis Gates, Jr. traces the family trees of Francis Collins, Shirley Ann Jackson and Harold Varmus, three pioneering scientists who’ve made dramatic contributions to our understanding of the world while knowing little about their own ancestry.

Discover the surprising story of how one of music’s biggest icons helped to establish the USS Arizona memorial in Pearl Harbor.

Ernie Pyle: Life in the Trenches tells the story of WWII correspondent Pyle, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist who reached millions each week with tales celebrating “ordinary” Americans doing extraordinary things.

Join Henry Louis Gates Jr., Doris Kearns Goodwin, Tom Hanks, George Lucas, Wynton Marsalis, Yo-Yo Ma, Meryl Streep, Sam Waterston and others for a tribute to acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns. The program includes an exclusive look at the upcoming series THE VIETNAM WAR.

The legacy left behind by Hawaiian royalty.

This is the first feature-length documentary to explore the Black Panther Party, its significance to the broader American culture, its cultural and political awakening for black people and the painful lessons wrought when a movement derails.

A frail, asthmatic young Theodore Roosevelt transforms himself into a vigorous champion of the strenuous life, loses one great love and finds another, leads men into battle and then rises like a rocket to become the youngest president in American history at age 42.

The legacy of the 100th Infantry Battalion, nicknamed “One-Puka-Puka,” continues to this day. The battalion, formed during World War II, was initially made up largely of Nisei (second-generation) Japanese Americans from Hawai‘i. After WWII, the battalion was mobilized during the Korean, Vietnam and Iraq wars.

This episode of HIKI NŌ is hosted by Waialua High and Intermediate School on the north shore of Oahu.

PBS Hawai‘i is dedicating its primetime schedule Dec. 5-7 to documentaries and television specials related to Pearl Harbor and World War II. The lineup begins Tuesday, Dec. 5 at 7:30 pm with an encore of Long Story Short with Leslie Wilcox featuring Daniel Martinez, Chief Historian at the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument at Pearl Harbor.