PBS America TV Guide — Wednesday, 15 July 2026

Maiya May explores heat in Portland, Oregon, and Medellín, Colombia, a city that is leading the revolution against sweltering city temperatures before visiting the hottest city in the US, Phoenix, Arizona

Ramesse II, one of the greatest pharaohs to rule Egypt, whose thriving and magnificent capital city seems to have vanished from history over time

Part one of a two-part documentary in which social historians examine surviving film footage of Britain in the early years of the 20th century. The first episode features footage of Queen Victoria's state funeral in 1901 and a bicycle parade celebrating the coronation of the new king. The programme also examines life for people employed in the mining and cotton industries, as well as how an increase in leisure time led to the the popularity of seaside resorts soaring, with Blackpool leading the way

Part one of two. Hiroshima to Kazakhstan - how nuclear powers turned remote lands and marginalised peoples into laboratories of the atomic age, hiding the deadly reality of fallout while perfecting more powerful bombs. It sold the arms race as protection and progress

The Allies make slow progress through Europe during the summer of 1944, finding themselves bogged down in the Normandy countryside. In the Pacific, American forces on the island of Saipan fight their costliest battle to date, but the mood is buoyed by the eventual Nazi retreat and the liberation of Paris on August 25, ending four years of occupation

Ramesse II, one of the greatest pharaohs to rule Egypt, whose thriving and magnificent capital city seems to have vanished from history over time