Grow Together Spring Fundraiser
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Spring 2024 Grow Together Fundraiser
During PBS North Carolina’s Grow Together campaign, we share special programs that entertain, educate and inspire. Tune in between February 24 and March 10 for legendary performances, engaging documentaries and the latest tips for strengthening your body, mind and spirit.
Explore our full Grow Together programming on our TV Schedules page.
Premiering Films & Specials
Bee Gees: In Our Own Time
Explore the story of one of the best-selling music acts of all time, told in their own words by Barry and Robin Gibb, from modest beginnings to worldwide success in the 1970s. The Bee Gees award-winning career spanned five decades with over 200 million albums sold. Includes interviews, videos, TV appearances and live performances.
Watch Preview | Bee Gees: In Our Own Time
America: The Land We Live In
Take a modern-day adventure to rediscover America’s hidden treasures and forgotten national wonders and rich history through the lens of a 19th-century travelogue called Picturesque America. Follow the clues in the epic tales to uncover the “then and now” of each 150-year-old location, while also discovering the culture, history, and beauty in each place.
Watch Preview | America: The Land We Live In
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The Highwaymen: Live at Nassau Coliseum
Join Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson — "the Mt. Rushmore of country music" — for this live concert recorded in 1990. The Highwaymen perform classics like "Big River," “Folsom Prison Blues,” "Me and Bobby McGee" and "Always On My Mind." Recorded at the famous arena in Hempstead, Long Island.
Watch Saturday, 2/24, 9 PM on PBS NC. Streaming now on the PBS App only with Passport.
Watch Now with Passport | The Highwaymen: Live at Nassau Coliseum
The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is Our Song
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the roots of African American religion beginning with the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the extraordinary ways enslaved Africans preserved and adapted their faith practices from the brutality of slavery to emancipation.
Watch Sunday, 2/25, 8 PM on PBS NC. Streaming now on the PBS App only with Passport.
Watch Now with Passport | The Black Church Episode 1
Slavery by Another Name
Slavery by Another Name is a 90-minute documentary that challenges one of Americans’ most cherished assumptions: the belief that slavery in this country ended with the Emancipation Proclamation. The film tells how even as chattel slavery came to an end in the South in 1865, thousands of African Americans were pulled back into forced labor with shocking force and brutality.
Watch Tuesday, 2/27, 8 PM on PBS NC. Streaming now on the PBS App.
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Nature: American Horses
American horses are icons. Mustang. Appaloosa. Morgan. Quarter Horse. Follow the history of the uniquely American horse breeds that helped shape our nation and meet the people who are continuing in the long tradition of caring for them.
Watch Wednesday, 2/28, 7 PM on PBS NC. Streaming now on the PBS App only with Passport.
Watch Now with Passport | Nature: American Horses
Suze Orman's Ultimate Retirement Guide
Join the acclaimed personal financial expert for essential advice on planning for and thriving in retirement. With empathy, straight talk and humor, Suze provides information about key steps for anyone trying to achieve their “ultimate retirement.”
Watch Friday, 3/1, 9 PM on PBS NC. Streaming now on the PBS App only with Passport.
Watch Now with Passport | Suze Orman's Ultimate Retirement Guide
Gospel
From the blues to hip hop, African Americans have been the driving force of sonic innovation for over a century. Musical styles come and go, but there's one sound that has been a constant source of strength, courage and wisdom from the pulpit to the choir lofts on any given Sunday. Gospel, the latest history series from Henry Louis Gates, Jr., digs deep into the origin story of Black spirituality
Watch Sunday, 3/10, 6 PM on PBS NC. Streaming now on the PBS App.
Watch Preview | Gospel
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