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Finding Your Roots

The acclaimed series with Professor Gates explores the mysteries, surprises and revelations hidden in the family trees of popular figures.

Roadmap to Happiness with Gretchen Rubin

Best-selling author, podcast host and happiness guru provides insights and strategies to help create happier lives.

Washington in the 2000s

Washington in the 2000s revisits the major events, people and developments as the new millennium ushers in a period that changes the city forever.

July 29, 2019 | Season Six of "Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr." Premieres Fall 2019 and Airs Through Fall 2020 on PBS, Beginning October 8
May 20, 2019 | WETA Enters Partnership to Represent and Distribute BBC World News Programming on PBS
April 11, 2019 | Washington in the 2000s Premieres May 14 at 8:00pm on WETA TV 26 & HD

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"PBS NewsHour" Names Judy Woodruff Solo Anchor, Expands Bench of Correspondents with Hire of Amna Nawaz and Nick Schifrin

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Africa Trek

America After Charleston

America at a Crossroads

America at a Crossroads: America's Muslims

America at a Crossroads: Campus Battleground

America at a Crossroads: Dissonance & Harmony: Arabic Music Goes West

America at a Crossroads: Europe's 9/11

America at a Crossroads: Faith Without Fear

America at a Crossroads: Gangs of Iraq

America at a Crossroads: JIHAD: The Men and Ideas Behind Al Qaeda

America at a Crossroads: Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience

America at a Crossroads: Security versus Liberty: The Other War

America at a Crossroads: STAND UP: Muslim American Comics Come of Age

America at a Crossroads: Struggle for the Soul of Islam: Inside Indonesia

America at a Crossroads: The Brotherhood

America at a Crossroads: The Case for War: In Defense of Freedom

America at a Crossroads: The Mosque in Morgantown

America at a Crossroads: The Trial of Saddam Hussein

America at a Crossroads: Warriors

AMERICA IN PRIMETIME

Anatomy of a Pandemic

ANTIQUES ROADSHOW - Washington, D.C. Episodes

Arlington National Cemetery

Arlington: Heroes, History and Hamburgers

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Benjamin Latrobe: America's First Architect

Bill Cosby: The Mark Twain Prize

Billy Crystal: The Tenth Annual Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize

Billy Joel: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize

Breakfast in Washington

A Broadway Celebration: In Performance at the White House

Burgers in Washington

Burt Bacharach & Hal David: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song In Performance at the White House

Bygone DC

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Carol Burnett: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize

A Celebration of Peace Through Music

Check, Please! DC

Classical WETA 90.9

Classical WETA 90.9 FM To Broadcast Concerts From The Library of Congress Radio Series

Country Music: In Performance at the White House

Cultivating Life

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David C. Purvis Named WETA CFO

Discovering Alexandria: The 20th Century

Discovering Washington: Through the Lens

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Ellen DeGeneres: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize

Empire of the Eye: The Magic of Illusion

Everyday Food

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Finding Your Roots

FIRST FREEDOM: The Fight for Religious Liberty

Forgiveness: A Time to Love and a Time to Hate

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George Carlin: The 2008 Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize

The Gospel Tradition: In Performance at the White House

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Homefront: World War II in Washington

Honored to Serve

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In Performance at the White House - Celebrating the Music of Stevie Wonder: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize

In Performance at the White House: A Celebration of Music from the Civil Rights Movement

In Performance at the White House: Dance Theatre of Harlem

In Performance at the White House: Fiesta Latina

In Performance at the White House: Red, White and Blues

In Performance at the White House: The Congressional Picnic

In Performance at the White House: Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz

In Principle

In Search of Myths and Heroes

Inside Washington

Iris Drayton-Spann Named WETA Vice President of Human Resources and Organizational Development

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Jason Daisey Named Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President of WETA

Jason R. Daisey Named Chief Financial Officer for WETA, the Flagship Public Broadcasting Station in the Nation’s Capital

The Jewish Americans

John Chester to Retire from Classical WETA 90.9 FM

John F. Wilson Named Vice President, Project Management for WETA, The Flagship Public Broadcasting Station in the Nation’s Capital

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The Kennedy Center Presents: The 2005 Mark Twain Prize (Steve Martin)

The Kennedy Center Presents: The 2006 Mark Twain Prize (Neil Simon)

KOREA: The Never-Ending War

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Lafayette: The Lost Hero

Latino Americans

The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song: 2007 Paul Simon

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Make No Little Plans: Daniel Burnham & The American City

Martyrs, Mayhem & Martial Law: Life in Civil War Alexandria

Medal of Honor

More Unusual Attractions - The WETA Guide

The Motown Sound: In Performance at the White House

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The National Christmas Tree Lighting 2010

Neighborhood Eats

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Paul McCartney: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song In Performance at the White House

Paul Mellon: In His Own Words

PBS Announces "Ken Burns Presents The Gene: An Intimate History," New Collaboration with Siddhartha Mukherjee, M.D., Three-Hour Documentary to Premiere Spring 2020 on PBS

PBS Announces "Reconstruction: America After the Civil War," a New Documentary from Henry Louis Gates, Jr., to Air Spring 2019 on PBS

The Peoples President: Man, Myth and the Media

Philanthropist David M. Rubenstein Establishes Fund at WETA, Flagship Public Broadcaster in the Nation’s Capital

Pizza in Washington

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Reading Rockets: Becoming Bilingual

Reading Rockets: Empowering Parents

Reading Rockets: Launching Young Readers

Reading Rockets: Reading and the Brain

Rethinking High School with Soledad O'Brien

Rick Schneider Named Next WETA Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer (7/24/13)

The Road to 9-11

Roadmap to Happiness with Gretchen Rubin

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Sara Just Named "PBS NewsHour" Executive Producer

Sara's Weeknight Meals

Season Five of “Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.” Premieres Winter 2019 on PBS, Beginning January 8

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Through Deaf Eyes

Tina Fey: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize

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Vermeer, Beyond Time

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The War of 1812

Washington in the '60s

Washington in the '70s

Washington in the '80s

Washington in the '90s

Washington in the 2000s

Washington Week

WETA All Access -- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

WETA All Access -- Union Station

WETA All Access -- Washington National Cathedral

WETA and MacNeil/Lehrer Productions Announce Planned Transfer of "PBS NewsHour" to WETA

WETA Arts

The WETA Guide to Christmas

The WETA Guide to Fine Dining

The WETA Guide to Montgomery County

WETA Hometown Heroes, 2008

WETA Launches Innovative Digital and Content Development Initiatives for Public Media

WETA Names Nonprofit Marketing Executive Jeff Regen New Vice President of Development

WETA Names Tom Chiodo New Senior Executive Director for National Program Development

WETA Neighborhoods

WETA Television Introduces New Channel

WETA UK

Will Ferrell Celebrated in The Mark Twain Prize Airing Nationally on PBS

Women of Soul: In Performance at the White House

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