Join the living legend for a musical journey through the people and places that shaped her career.

“Dolly Parton: Here I Am” airs Saturday, August 8th at 8pm on WXXI-TV and streaming live on the WXXI and PBS apps.

Join the living legend for a moving, musical journey through the people and places that shaped her iconic career. Featuring career-spanning archival footage, the film reveals the spirit, soul and hard work of an inspiring artist.

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 ELVIS ’56 opens a time capsule to reveal the legendary performer at the very beginning of his meteoric career.

“Elvis ’56” airs Sunday, August 9th at 1pm on WXXI-TV and streaming live on the WXXI and PBS apps.

In 1956, Elvis Presley was a 21-year-old new singing sensation and both he and his rockabilly sound were unknown outside of the South. Narrated by Levon Helm (The Band). It captures the sights and sounds of that pivotal year using exclusive tour photographs, kinescopes of Presley’s controversial appearances on TV, newsreel clips, and radio interviews. Footage of performances captures the young, explosively talented Presley on the brink of his soon-to-be superstardom. Just one year later, he achieved widespread fame, selling a billion records worldwide and becoming the highest-paid star in Hollywood.

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Anita Rani explores the Brontë sisters (Anne, Charlotte and Emily) and the impact they’ve had on millions of readers.

“Brontes & Me: Sisters of Disruption” airs Sunday, August 2nd at 7pm on WXXI-TV and streaming live on the WXXI and PBS apps.

She recalls her first encounter with them at school and her experience of growing up with the stunning landscape of Haworth and the moors on her doorstep. Fellow Brontë fans and literary experts to discuss how and why these sisters became ground-breaking “literary disruptors.”

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A tender journey and exploration into the past, present and future, and delivers nuance and understanding about the long vicious cycle of mass incarceration over the last 50 years.

POV “For Venida, For Kalief” airs Monday, July 27 at 10 p.m. on WXXI-TV and streaming live on the WXXI and PBS apps.

“For Venida, For Kalief” debuts the poetry of Venida Brodnax Browder, mother of Kalief Browder- an African-American teenager who inspired incarceration reform in the United States.It culminates in the contemporary movement to transform Rikers Island – one of the world’s most notorious jails – into a renewable energy center. This film intertwines spirituality and advocacy, while crafting a cinematic experience that re-imagines the “criminal justice” documentary as a poetic collage.

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 Space Explorers takes an intimate look at life aboard the International Space Station and the future of space exploration.

Space Explorers: Moonrise on the ISS airs Tuesday, July 21 at 10 p.m. on WXXI-TV and streaming live on the WXXI and PBS apps.

The film looks ahead to the Artemis program, which will send humans back to the Moon for the first time in 50 years. It follows seven astronauts living and working on the ISS — an outpost serving as a proving ground for future lunar and deep-space missions

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