WETA Passport Picks for April

Spring is in full swing, and so are WETA Passport and the free PBS App! Get lost in gripping, mysterious drama with Whitstable Pearl and The Mountain Detective. Explore America's unique culture, society and history with new, eye-opening episodes from American Masters and Independent Lens. For even more highly-informative viewing, join expert scientists and scholars for amazing adventures and incredible investigations with Nature and NOVA. Rain or shine, you can always count on WETA Passport and the free PBS app to deliver the stories that keep you entertained, inspired and informed!

Follow single mother Pearl as she pursues her dream to start a private detective agency, which she runs from her family restaurant in the coastal English town of Whitstable. Drawn by her caring nature, locals flock to her with all kinds of cases. But when a friend dies suspiciously, Pearl finds herself in conflict with a gruff new cop in town, DCI Mike McGuire.

Binge-watch Season 1 now with WETA Passport!

Former policeman Alex Hugo leaves Marseilles in search of a new life, but ends up confronting violence in the mountains of the Hautes-Alpes. From Walter Presents, in French with English subtitles.

Watch Seasons 1 and 2 now, and binge-watch Season 3 on April 25 with WETA Passport!

Take an intimate look into the life of Liza Minnelli, best known for her Oscar-winning role in Cabaret, with LIZA: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story, and explore the work of cartoonist and free speech advocate Art Spiegelman and the impact of his Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel Maus with Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse.

Watch A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story now and watch Disaster is My Muse on April 15 with WETA Passport and on the free PBS app!

From the pioneering women behind the “Free Library Movement” to today's librarians who service the public despite working in a contentious age of closures and book bans, meet those who created a civic institution where everything is free and the doors are open to all with Free for All: Inside the Public Library. WE WANT THE FUNK! is a syncopated voyage through the history of funk music. Featuring James Brown's dynamism, the extraterrestrial funk of George Clinton's Parliament Funkadelic, transformed girl group Labelle, and Fela Kuti's Afrobeat, the story traces funk's sweeping cultural impact and influence.

Watch WE WANT THE FUNK! on April 8 and Free for All: Inside the Public Library on April 29 with WETA Passport and on the free PBS app!

In the heart of Africa’s Great Rift Valley lies Katavi, a little-known National Park spanning more than three thousand square miles of western Tanzania. Here, Nature’s filmmakers capture a once-in-a-lifetime event – a severe drought followed by heavy rains that tests the survival skills of all those that call Katavi home in Katavi: Africa’s Fallen Paradise.

Watch Episode 1 now, and catch new episodes on April 9 and 16 with WETA Passport and on the free PBS app!

What military technologies did the American colonies use in their fight for freedom, and how did they help propel them to one of history’s most unlikely victories? Archaeologists and historians uncover the real stories of innovation, skill, and strategy that determined the outcome of important battles in Revolutionary War Weapons. In Critical Condition: Health In Black America, trace the roots of systemic racism in our medical system and the biological impacts of discrimination on the body to understand why Black Americans experience such disproportionately poor health outcomes.

Watch Revolutionary War Weapons on April 9 and Critical Condition: Health In Black America on April 30 with WETA Passport and on the free PBS app!