ADVANCE May 2026

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11 AM 11:30 AM NOON 12:30 PM 1 PM 1:30 PM 2 PM 2:30 PM 3 PM 3:30 PM 4 PM 4:30 PM

GZero World With Ian

Balancing Act

Whatever Dreams

Stories From the Stage

POV: Black Snow

BBC World News Washington Week

FRI 1

Amanpour and Company

POV Shorts DW News

POV: Emergent City

Secrets of the Dead: Ben Franklin’s Bones Bloomberg Wall Street Week

To the Contrary

SAT 2

POV Shorts

Islam’s Greatest Stories of Love

Great Lakes Now Series

America’s Heartland

Climate California Whitney Reynolds Compass Points To the Contrary

The Open Mind

ICT Newscast

Balancing Act

POV: Black Snow

SUN 3

Start Up

On Story

The Open Mind

Play Like a Lion: The Legacy of Maestro Ali Akbar

BBC World News BBC World News BBC World News BBC World News BBC World News Washington Week BBC World News BBC World News BBC World News BBC World News BBC World News Washington Week BBC World News BBC World News BBC World News BBC World News BBC World News BBC World News BBC World News BBC World News BBC World News BBC World News Washington Week

MON 4

Amanpour and Company

Gandhi’s Awakening

Gandhi’s Gift

DW News

TUE 5

Amanpour and Company

Asia Insight America’s First Guru

Guru Nanak: The Founder of Sikhism DW News

Energy Switch

American Experience: The Movement and the “Madman”

POV: Wisdom Gone Wild

WED 6

Amanpour and Company

DW News

Story in the Pub. Square GZero World With Ian

POV: Tokyo Uber Blues

THU 7

Amanpour and Company

Horizons

Behind the Strings

Your Serve or Mine

DW News

Balancing Act

First Peoples First Stories

Stories From the Stage

America ReFramed: Blurring the Color Line

FRI 8

Amanpour and Company

Tending Clouds

DW News

Photographic Justice: The Corky Lee Story

Independent Lens: Home Court Bloomberg Wall Street Week

To the Contrary

SAT 9

Snapshots of Confinement

Who She Is China: Frame by Frame

Great Lakes Now Series

America’s Heartland

Climate California Whitney Reynolds Compass Points To the Contrary

The Open Mind

ICT Newscast

Balancing Act

America ReFramed: Blurring the Color Line

SUN 10

Start Up

On Story

The Open Mind

POV: How to Have an American Baby

MON 11

Amanpour and Company

American Delivery

DW News

Independent Lens: Who Is Michael Jang? Sominsai: The End of a 1000-Year-Old Festival

The Story of China With Michael Wood: Ancestors/Silk Roads and China Ships

TUE 12

Amanpour and Company

Asia Insight

DW News

Energy Switch

Story of China: Golden Age/The Ming

WED 13

Amanpour and Company

DW News

Story in the Pub. Square GZero World With Ian

Skin digenous

Skin digenous

The Story of China With Michael Wood: The Last Empire/The Age of Revolution

THU 14

Amanpour and Company

Horizons

DW News

Balancing Act

First Peoples First Stories

Stories From the Stage

America ReFramed: Geographies of Kinship

Ghost Mountain

FRI 15

Amanpour and Company

DW News

Independent Lens: Natchez

POV: Against the Tide

POV: Who’s Afraid of Nathan Law?

To the Contrary

SAT 16

Montiers

Great Lakes Now Series

America’s Heartland

Climate California Whitney Reynolds Compass Points To the Contrary

Bloomberg Wall Street Week

The Open Mind

ICT Newscast

Balancing Act

America ReFramed: Geographies of Kinship

SUN 17

Start Up

On Story

The Open Mind

Independent Lens: And So It Begins

MON 18

Amanpour and Company

Finding Her Beat

DW News

Finding Your Roots: Larger Than Life Finding Your Roots: Stranger Than Fiction POV: Liquor Store Dreams

TUE 19

Amanpour and Company

Asia Insight

The Buddha

DW News

Energy Switch

Independent Lens: Beyond Utopia

WED 20

Amanpour and Company

DW News

Story in the Pub. Square GZero World With Ian

POV: Children of the Mist

THU 21

Amanpour and Company

Horizons

DW News

Balancing Act

Stories From the Stage The Last Ring Home

Ah Quon Mcelrath: The Struggle Never Ends! 1st to Fight: Pacific War Marines

FRI 22

Amanpour and Company

Montiers

Price of Paradise

DW News

Independent Lens: Make Peace or Die: Honor the Fallen

SAT 23

The True Cost of Defense

Armed With Language

Waal River Crossing: 1944

Great Lakes Now Series

America’s Heartland

Climate California Whitney Reynolds Compass Points To the Contrary

Bloomberg Wall Street Week Dad’s Secret War: France 1944 NOVA: Angkor: Hidden Jungle Empire Finding Your Roots: Far From Home Finding Your Roots: Dreamers One and All

The Open Mind

ICT Newscast

Balancing Act

SUN 24

Start Up

On Story

Price of Paradise

The Open Mind

They Volunteered for This: Merrill’s Marauders Frontline: Maui’s Deadly Firestorm

Timeless Patriotism: Guam and World War II

MON 25

Amanpour and Company

DW News

Frontline: Battle for Tibet

TUE 26

Amanpour and Company

Asia Insight

DW News

Energy Switch

Big Pacific: Mysterious Big Pacific: Voracious

Big Pacific: Violent Big Pacific: Passionate

WED 27

Amanpour and Company

DW News

Story in the Pub. Square GZero World With Ian

THU 28

Amanpour and Company

Horizons

DW News

Balancing Act

Amer. Mast.: Ten Times

Stories From the Stage

POV: Between Goodbyes American Experience: Victory in the Pacific

FRI 29

Amanpour and Company

POV Shorts DW News

Independent Lens: Third Act

Amer. Mast.: Ten Times

American Experience: Seabiscuit Bloomberg Wall Street Week

To the Contrary

SAT 30

Great Lakes Now Series

America’s Heartland

Climate California

The Open Mind

ICT Newscast

Balancing Act

POV: Between Goodbyes

SUN 31

Start Up

On Story

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