The documentary film chronicles the studio’s creation, including track breakdowns of Hendrix classics, and featuring interviews with original staff members and musical collaborators.

Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision airs Saturday, September 27 at 10:30 p.m. on WXXI-TV and streams live on the WXXI app.

Rising from the rubble of a bankrupt Greenwich Village nightclub, Electric Lady Studios became a state-of-the-art recording facility inspired by Jimi Hendrix’s vision — the first artist-owned commercial recording studio. The film includes track breakdowns of Hendrix classics such as “Freedom,” “Angel,” and “Dolly Dagger,” along with interviews of original Electric Lady staff members and musical collaborators. 

Photo: Jimi Hendrix playing an electric guitar to a concert crowd.
Credit: American Public Television.

Discover how Rita Moreno defied her humble upbringing and racism to become one of a select group of Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Award winners with new interviews, clips of her iconic roles and scenes of the star on set today.

Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go For It airs Friday, September 26 at 4 p.m. on WXXI-TV and streams live on the WXXI app.

This documentary explores the star’s rich, 70-year long career using vérité footage of Moreno today, archival footage of her roles and appearances, reenactments of her childhood, and animation and interviews with Moreno, those close to her and performers she influenced. It also delves into the lesser-known struggles Moreno faced on her path to stardom, including pernicious Hollywood sexism and sexual abuse, a toxic relationship with Marlon Brando and an attempted suicide a year before she won her Oscar. Film interviewees include Gloria Estefan, Morgan Freeman, Mitzi Gaynor, Whoopi Goldberg, and more.

Photo: Portrait of film and Broadway actor Rita Moreno as she puts on makeup in the mirror.
Credit: PBS.

A new “innovation district” tests local democracy in a divided Brooklyn community.

POV “Emergent City” airs Monday, August 18 at 10 p.m. on WXXI-TV and streams live on the WXXI app.

Residents of Sunset Park, Brooklyn face rising rents, a legacy of environmental racism and the loss of the industrial jobs that once sustained their community. When a global developer purchases a massive industrial complex on the waterfront and lays plans for an “innovation district,” a battle erupts over the future of the neighborhood and of New York City itself. Co-produced with ITVS

The beloved annual concert performed by Vienna Philharmonic takes place in Schönbrunn Palace Park and is conducted for the first time by Maestro Tugan Sokhiev.

Great Performances: Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2025 airs Friday August 29 at 9 p.m. on WXXI-TV and streams live on the WXXI app.

The beloved annual concert performed by Vienna Philharmonic takes place in Schönbrunn Palace Park and is conducted for the first time by Maestro Tugan Sokhiev. Renowned opera singer Piotr Beczała joins as the vocal soloist, performing three famed arias from Bizet’s “Carmen,” Puccini’s “Turandot,” and Kálmán’s operetta “Gräfin Mariza.” Additionally, the Vienna Boys Choir will perform at the concert for the first time. Past years’ conductors include Zubin Mehta (2005 & 2015), Franz Welser-Möst (2010), Gustavo Dudamel (2012, 2019), Daniel Harding (2021), Yannick Nézet-Séguin (2023), Andris Nelsons (2022, 2024), and more. The Summer Night Concert is transmitted in more than 80 countries worldwide. 

Chicago performs their greatest hits with special guests.

Chicago and Friends: Live at 55 airs Friday, August 15 at 10 p.m. on WXXI-TV and streams live on the WXXI app.

Join the Rock and Roll Hall-of-Famers as they perform their greatest hits with special guests Steve Vai, Chris Daughtry, Robert Randolph, Robin Thicke, VoicePlay, Judith Hill, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram and more. Filmed in Atlantic City with over 18 4k cameras, the band plays songs from their double-Platinum debut album Chicago Transit Authority, in honor of its 55th anniversary.

Enjoy a sneak peek at the upcoming six-part documentary series from Ken Burns that explores the country’s founding struggle.

PBS Previews: The American Revolution: A Film by Ken Burns airs Saturday, August 16 at 10:30 p.m. on WXXI-TV.and streams live on the WXXI app.

This special gives an inside look at the new series, The American Revolution, directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt. Tune in as the team uncovers how thirteen British colonies on the Atlantic Coast rose in rebellion, won their independence and established a new form of government that radically reshaped the continent and inspired centuries of democratic movements around the globe.

Watch the trailer for the six-part series that premieres November 16 on WXXI-TV.

Photo: The American Revolution key art.
Credit: PBS.