Below is a list of some of the best arts documentaries and shorts by Nebraska Public Media and PBS. All of these shows are available to watch right now without a membership - for FREE. Just click the titles and press play. And, you can find many of them in the FREE PBS Video app for your Roku, Apple TV, Samsung Smart TV, Fire TV Stick, phone or tablet. Enjoy!
Nebraska Public Media original productions are noted with an asterisk (*).
Nebraska Public Media Originals - Nebraska Arts & Artists
*2000 Souls (Nebraska Stories)
*A Conversation With Maestro Wilkins (Nebraska Stories)
*A Legacy on Canvas (Nebraska Stories)
*A New Life for Old Paintings (Nebraska Stories)
*A Rising Star (Nebraska Stories)
*A Sculpted Life
*A Serendipitous Circus (Nebraska Stories)
*Art & Literature at the Castle (Nebraska Stories)
*Art Farm (Nebraska Stories)
*Art, The Piano Man (Nebraska Stories)
*Before the Battle (Nebraska Stories)
*Big Heads in a Garden (Nebraska Stories)
*Building a Dream (Nebraska Stories)
*Carhenge for Sale (Nebraska Stories)
*Casting Call: Casting Call To Curtain Call
*Catching a Second Wind (Nebraska Stories)
*Clay & Bronze Blues (Nebraska Stories)
*Dancing With Robots (Nebraska Stories)
*Deconstructing Art (Nebraska Stories)
*Drawn to Fashion (Nebraska Stories)
*Emery Blagdon And His Healing Machine
*Emily Bass & The Near Miracle's "Glory Hallelujah" (Nebraska Stories)
*Enchanted Arboretum (Nebraska Stories)
*Extraordinary Vessels (Nebraska Stories)
*Fear and the Magic Flute (Nebraska Stories)
*Figaro Across Nebraska (Nebraska Stories)
*Figaro Figaro!
*Final Cut: Filmmakers Showcase
*Folkloric Dancers (Nebraska Stories)
*Healing Art (Nebraska Stories)
*Hear Nebraska Presents Mesonjixx (Nebraska Stories)
*Hear Nebraska presents: Jocelyn (Nebraska Stories)
*Hear Nebraska's Music Man (Nebraska Stories)
*Herb Mignery, Cowboy Artist (Nebraska Stories)
*House of Art (Nebraska Stories)
*In the Key of Glass (Nebraska Stories)
*In the Listening Room with Andrea von Kampen (Nebraska Stories)
*Inside the Cornhusker Marching Band (Nebraska Stories)
*Jazz Reunion (Nebraska Stories)
*Kickstarting a Comeback (Nebraska Stories)
*Making It Better (Nebraska Stories)
*Making Paint Move (Nebraska Stories)
*Matt Sesow's Paint Therapy (Nebraska Stories)
*Merrymakers (Nebraska Stories)
*Music From the Ashes (Nebraska Stories)
*Musical Seedlings (Nebraska Stories)
*Nebraska Arts Awards (Nebraska Stories)
*Nebraska's Capitol Masterpiece
*New Ears for Ancient Music (Nebraska Stories)
*Painting in Red (Nebraska Stories)
*Pathfinder Chorus (Nebraska Stories)
*Play Me, I'm Yours (Nebraska Stories)
*Plein Air Poet (Nebraska Stories)
*Portrait of a Photographer (Nebraska Stories)
*Pottery Walk (Nebraska Stories)
*Ragtime Caberet
*Remembered Voices
*Runway Magic (Nebraska Stories)
*Satisfying Surprises (Nebraska Stories)
*Saving Emery's Masterpiece (Nebraska Stories)
*Saving Your Treasures
*Shakespeare & the Wild West (Nebraska Stories)
*Small Town Glee (Nebraska Stories)
*Solomon Butcher: Frontier Photographer
*Sports Artist Armando Villarreal (Nebraska Stories)
*Spreading Hayseed (Nebraska Stories)
*State of Poetry (Nebraska Stories)
*Talk to Me (Nebraska Stories)
*The Artist's Wife (Nebraska Stories)
*The Big Sounds of Bobby Layne (Nebraska Stories)
*The Blue Barn: All Grown Up (Nebraska Stories)
*The Cards You Are Dealt (Nebraska Stories)
*The Carver (Nebraska Stories)
*The Chief Goes to Washington (Nebraska Stories)
*The Joke's on Norfolk (Nebraska Stories)
*The Land Will Outlive Us All
*The Legends of Leavenworth Street (Nebraska Stories)
*The Medicine of Art (Nebraska Stories)
*The Paper Artist (Nebraska Stories)
*The Point is Poetry (Nebraska Stories)
*The Sound of Things (Nebraska Stories)
*The Well-Dressed Museum (Nebraska Stories)
*Time and the River (Nebraska Stories)
*Where Time Slows Down (Nebraska Stories)
*Winston, Kid Composer (Nebraska Stories)
*Yours, Willa Cather
Architecture
Machine Project Field Guide to L.A. Architecture
Steel Modern
That Far Corner: Frank Lloyd Wright in Los Angeles
Third L.A. with Architectural Critic Christopher Hawthorne
Crafts/Artisans
Artesanos/Artisans
Craft and Military Service
Craft as Community Activity
Forge and Fire
Heath Ceramics: The Making of a California Classic
History and Truth
Industry and the Creative Economy
Masters of Modern Design
Music and Handmade Instruments
Origins of American Craft
Quilts
Salon of Beauty and Scar Printing
The Art of Basketweaving
Destinations
America Deserta
Asian American Art in the Central Valley
Berlin
California
Chicago
Desert X
East is Eden
Johannesburg
Los Angeles
Mexico City
MOCA – Beyond The Museum Walls
MOCA – MOCAtv Episode 3
MOCA – The Art of Our Time
San Francisco Bay Area
The Art Assignment
Vancouver
Variedades: Olvera Street
Virtual Domains
Environment Art
100 Mules Walking The Los Angeles Aqueduct
50th Flashback: Earthworks #4
AgH2O: Silver and Water
Ecology
Landscape
Metralleta de Oro and Ultraviolet
Nature
No Trespassing: A Survey of Environmental Art
Events
Black History Month Special – African American Artists in SoCal
Celebration – Craft and Winter Holiday Traditions
Holiday – Craft Traditions
Exploring Themes
Balance
Boundaries
Consumption
Fantasy
Fiction
Humor
Identity
Investigation
Legacy
Loss & Desire
Memory
Memory
Paradox
Place
Play
Power
Process
Romance
Secrets
Spirituality
Stories
Structures
Systems
Time
Transformation
Latin America
Borderlands – Art Along the U.S. Mexico Border
Borders
Crossroads – Intersections of Craft, Culture, and Technology
Día de Los Muertos / Day of the Dead
Family of Craft Artists
La Raza and the Chicano Movement
Neighbors – Mexico and the United States Through Craft
Threads – Needle Arts
Without Borders / Sin Fronteras
Performances
And the Winner Is …
Boot Camp
Fallujah – Art, Healing, and PTSD
Hopscotch – An Opera for the 21st Century
Invisible Cities
Isadora Duncan’s Mastery in Modern Dance
The Casting Call
Profiles in Art
Artist and Mother
Bukowski Reads Bukowski
Charles Lummis – Reimagining the American West
Electric Earth: The Art of Doug Aitken
Jeffrey Deitch’s Los Angeles
Monomania L.A.
Visionaries
William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible
Social Justice & Community
Afrofuturism
Art and Protest
Artists as Agents of Change
Compassion – Reconciliation and Tolerance
Identity – Exploring Issues of Gender, Race, Culture and Place
Messages Expressed Through Craft
Protest – Artists and Global Conflicts
Social Practice Arts
Teachers – Sharing Crafting Passion to Students
WEDU Arts Plus