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Credit: Courtesy of McGee Media/Ark Media Photo Caption: Host Henry Louis Gates, Jr. with writer George R. R. Martin while taping Finding Your Roots.

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Finding Your Roots, Season 5

Grandparents and Other Strangers: Host Henry Louis Gates, Jr. helps actor Andy Samberg and author George R. R. Martin answer some family mysteries when DNA detective work uncovers new branches of their family trees. The DNA analysis upends family history and reveals new relatives.

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Park Street Station, underground (1897) | Courtesy of City of Boston Archives

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The Race Underground

Learn how America's first subway, in Boston, overcame a litany of engineering challenges, the greed-driven interests of businessmen and the great fears of its citizenry to create a rapid transit system soon replicated throughout the country.

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Credit: Courtesy of FRONTLINE (PBS) Photo Caption: In "Kids Caught in the Crackdown," FRONTLINE and The Associated Press expose the traumatic stories of migrant children detained under Trump's immigration policies. This photograph shows children held at the Homestead Shelter in Homestead, Florida.

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Kids Caught in the Crackdown

In an investigation with the Associated Press into the widespread consequences — and business — of the mass confinement of migrant children, Frontline exposes the traumatic stories of migrant children detained under President Trump’s immigration policies.

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Craig McLachlan stars as the maverick country town doctor Lucien Blake in "The Doctor Blake Mysteries" | Photo Credit: BBC

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Doctor Blake Mysteries

Australian Second World War veteran Doctor Lucien Blake returns home to Ballarat after 30 years to take over the local medical practice and solve crimes.

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Impeachment Hearings: WETA TV 26/HD will be airing live coverage of the House of Representatives' public impeachment hearings from PBS NewsHour starting at 10:00am on Wednesday, November 13, and 9:00am on Friday, November 15, and re-airing on both Wednesday (8:00pm) and Friday (8:30pm). Learn more →

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Check, Please! DC

This WETA TV 26 production offers an unfiltered look at the local restaurant scene via a panel of citizen reviewers sharing their favorite eateries and dining experiences.

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Our UK channel offers the best of British television — both classic and contemporary — 24 hours a day!

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Bygone DC

WETA TV 26 remembers the unique places and people of Washington's past. Through archival footage and original interviews, discover the locales that defined the city.

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