Partial List of Audio Described Shows on PBS

Broadcast Listing

NOTE:  We are unable to provide an accurate listing of PBS described shows because PBS does not publish such a listing, AND the schedule varies by your location.  We suggest that tvlistings.zap2it.com may be a helpful resource for finding described shows on PBS in your area.  Look for the "DVS" notation in the show details.

The following list was originally compiled on October 1, 2015, and updated periodically since then.  Some of the programs may no longer be airing, and we are certainly missing many.  Please contribute what you can via the Webmaster link at the bottom of this page.

Streaming Listing

PBS Audio Described Titles Available On-Demand via PBS.org Web Player
(Best Effort Compilation, Updated Mar 1, 2022)

Note: Entries with the expired designation may become available again in the future.  Entries with the Passport sign-in required designation are only available to members with said benefit—please consult this PBS support article to learn more about PBS Passport.

Programs with Audio Description through a secondary audio track

When you click through to PBS for any of the described programs below, click the earphone link in the PBS player and select English AD.  Screen-reader users activate the "Audio Track" menu-button and check the "English AD Descriptions" radio-menu-item.  In addition to the PBS.org web player linked to below, PBS has a list of other players which supports multiple audio tracks, including the PBS app on Apple TV, iOS, and Roku.  Please consult the "PBS Player Support for Multiple Audio Tracks" for other supported PBS players.

• All Creatures Great and Small
  • S2 Ep1 Episode 1 (Passport sign-in required)
  • S2 Ep2 Episode 2 (Passport sign-in required)
  • S2 Ep3 Episode 3 (Passport sign-in required)
  • S2 Ep4 Episode 4 (Passport sign-in required)
  • S2 Ep5 Episode 5 (Passport sign-in required)
  • S2 Ep6 Episode 6 (Passport sign-in required)
  • S2 Ep7 Episode 7
• American Experience
  • S20 Ep7 Roberto Clemente
  • S21 Ep2 The Polio Crusade (Passport sign-in required)
  • S24 Ep7 Jesse Owens (Passport sign-in required)
  • S33 Ep5 Billy Graham (Passport sign-in required)
  • S33 Ep6 Sandra Day O'Connor: The First (Passport sign-in required)
  • S34 Ep1 Riveted: The History of Jeans
  • S34 Ep2 The American Diplomat
• American Masters
  • S35 Ep6 Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir (Passport sign-in required)
  • S35 Ep7 Ballerina Boys (Passport sign-in required)
  • S35 Ep8 Buddy Guy: The Blues Chase The Blues Away (Passport sign-in required)
  • S35 Ep9 Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go For It (Passport sign-in required)
  • Lights, Camera, Acción [Special]
  • S35 Ep10 Becoming Helen Keller (Passport sign-in required)
  • S36 Ep1 Ailey (Passport sign-in required)
  • S36 Ep2 Marian Anderson: The Whole World in Her Hands
• Around the World in 80 Days
  • Ep1 Episode 1 (Passport sign-in required)
  • Ep2 Episode 2 (Passport sign-in required)
  • Ep3 Episode 3 (Passport sign-in required)
  • Ep4 Episode 4 (Passport sign-in required)
  • Ep5 Episode 5 (Passport sign-in required)
  • Ep6 Episode 6 (Passport sign-in required)
  • Ep7 Episode 7 (Passport sign-in required)
  • Ep8 Episode 8
• Baptiste
  • S2 Ep1 Episode 1 (Passport sign-in required)
  • S2 Ep2 Episode 2 (Passport sign-in required)
  • S2 Ep3 Episode 3 (Passport sign-in required)
  • S2 Ep4 Episode 4 (Passport sign-in required)
  • S2 Ep5 Episode 5 (Passport sign-in required)
  • S2 Ep6 Episode 6 (Passport sign-in required)
• Country Music (Passport sign-in required)
  • Note: Other Ken Burns films *used* to have separate videos for AD, e.g., The Roosevelts and The Vietnam War, but it seems that those corresponding videos were not made available on Passport.
  • Ep1 "The Rub" (Beginnings-1933)
  • Ep2 "Hard Times" (1933-1945)
  • Ep3 "The Hillbilly Shakespeare" (1945-1953)
  • Ep4 "I Can't Stop Loving You" (1953-1963)
  • Ep5 "The Sons and Daughters of America" (1964-1968)
  • Ep6 "Will the Circle Be Unbroken?" (1968-1972)
  • Ep7 "Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way?" (1973-1983)
  • Ep8 "Don't Get Above Your Raisin'" (1984-1996)
• Grantchester
  • S6 Ep1 Episode 1 (Passport sign-in required)
  • S6 Ep2 Episode 2 (Passport sign-in required)
  • S6 Ep3 Episode 3 (Passport sign-in required)
  • S6 Ep4 Episode 4 (Passport sign-in required)
  • S6 Ep5 Episode 5 (Passport sign-in required)
  • S6 Ep6 Episode 6 (Passport sign-in required)
  • S6 Ep7 Episode 7 (Passport sign-in required)
  • S6 Ep8 Episode 8 (Passport sign-in required)
• Guilt
  • Ep1 Episode 1 (Passport sign-in required)
  • Ep2 Episode 2 (Passport sign-in required)
  • Ep3 Episode 3 (Passport sign-in required)
  • Ep4 Episode 4 (Passport sign-in required)
• Independent Lens
  • S22 Ep22 The Donut King (expired)
  • S22 Ep23 Two Gods (expired)
  • S22 Ep24 The People vs. Agent Orange (expired)
  • S23 Ep1 Cured (expired)
  • S23 Ep3 Storm Lake (Passport sign-in required)
  • S23 Ep4 Duty Free (Passport sign-in required)
  • S23 Ep5 Home From School: The Children Of Carlisle (Passport sign-in required)
  • S23 Ep6 A Reckoning in Boston (expired)
  • S23 Ep8 Owned: A Tale of Two Americas
  • S23 Ep9 Bulletproof
  • S23 Ep10 Apart
  • Blind Love collection (Passport sign-in required)
    • Episode 1
    • Episode 2
    • Episode 3
    • Episode 4
    • Episode 5
    • Episode 6
    • Episode 7
• Nature
  • S39 Ep13 The Bat Man of Mexico (Passport sign-in required)
  • S40 Ep1 My Garden of a Thousand Bees
  • S40 Ep2 Season of the Osprey (Passport sign-in required)
  • S40 Ep3 The Elephant and the Termite (Passport sign-in required)
  • S40 Ep4 First Steps | Born in the Rockies (Passport sign-in required)
  • S40 Ep5 Growing Up | Born in the Rockies (Passport sign-in required)
  • S40 Ep6 Oceans | Animals with Cameras (Passport sign-in required)
  • S40 Ep7 Australia | Animals with Cameras (Passport sign-in required)
  • S40 Ep8 Penguins: Meet the Family
  • S40 Ep9 The Ocean's Greatest Feast
  • S40 Ep10 American Horses
• NOVA
  • S48 Ep2 Looking for Life on Mars
  • S48 Ep3 Picture a Scientist (Passport sign-in required)
  • S48 Ep4 Reef Rescue (Passport sign-in required)
  • S48 Ep6 Hindenburg: The New Evidence (Passport sign-in required)
  • S48 Ep7 Great Electric Airplane Race (Passport sign-in required)
  • S48 Ep9 Ship That Changed the World (Passport sign-in required)
  • S48 Ep10 Bat Superpowers (Passport sign-in required)
  • S48 Ep11 The Cannabis Question
  • S48 Ep12 Particles Unknown (Passport sign-in required)
  • S48 Ep13 Arctic Drift (Passport sign-in required)
  • S48 Ep14 Edible Insects (Passport sign-in required)
  • S48 Ep15 NOVA Universe Revealed: Age of Stars (Passport sign-in required)
  • S48 Ep16 NOVA Universe Revealed: Milky Way (Passport sign-in required)
  • S48 Ep17 NOVA Universe Revealed: Alien Worlds (Passport sign-in required)
  • S48 Ep18 NOVA Universe Revealed: Black Holes (Passport sign-in required)
  • S48 Ep20 Butterfly Blueprints (Passport sign-in required)
  • S48 Ep21 Alaskan Dinosaurs (Passport sign-in required)
  • S48 Ep22 Ancient Maya Metropolis (Passport sign-in required)
  • S49 Ep1 Arctic Sinkholes
  • S49 Ep2 Secrets in the Scat
  • S49 Ep3 Great Mammoth Mystery
  • S49 Ep4 Augmented
  • S49 Ep101 Predicting My MS
• POV
  • S34 Ep1 The Neutral Ground (expired)
  • S34 Ep2 Landfall (Passport sign-in required)
  • S34 Ep3 Stateless (Passport sign-in required)
  • S34 Ep4 Mayor (Passport sign-in required)
  • S34 Ep5 Pier Kids (Passport sign-in required)
  • S34 Ep6 The Song of the Butterflies (Passport sign-in required)
  • S34 Ep401 POV Shorts: Where I'm From (Passport sign-in required)
  • S34 Ep8 La Casa de Mama Icha (Passport sign-in required)
  • S34 Ep9 Things We Dare Not Do (expired)
  • S34 Ep10 North By Current (Passport sign-in required)
  • S34 Ep402 POV Shorts: Dreaming Life
  • S34 Ep403 POV Shorts: Familial Healing
  • S34 Ep404 POV Shorts: On Caregiving and Grace
  • S34 Ep405 POV Shorts: Becoming Myself
  • S34 Ep11 Unapologetic
  • S34 Ep406 POV Shorts: Le Frère (Passport sign-in required)
  • S34 Ep12 Not Going Quietly

Programs with Audio Description as separate video

• American Masters
  • S35 Ep5 Oliver Sacks: His Own Life (Passport sign-in required)
  • Renegades Pilot: Kitty O'Neil [Special]
  • S35 Ep10 Becoming Helen Keller (Extended Audio Description Version) (Passport sign-in required)
  • Helen Keller the suffragist [Clip]
  • Helen Keller studied socialism [Clip]
  • Keller's use of oral communication [Clip]
• Medal Quest
  • S2 Ep1 Ice Warriors: USA Sled Hockey
• NOVA: Featured Episodes With Audio Description collection (6 episodes)
  • S48 Ep1 Secrets in our DNA (Passport sign-in required)
  • S47 Ep17 Beyond the Elements: Reactions
  • S47 Ep18 Beyond the Elements: Indestructible
  • S47 Ep19 Beyond the Elements: Life
  • S48 Ep2 Looking for Life on Mars
  • S48 Ep3 Picture a Scientist (Passport sign-in required)
• Past, Present, Future
  • Ep1 If We Were a Love Song
  • Ep2 DANCERS (Slightly Out of Shape)
  • Ep3 One + One Make Three
• The First Twenty
  • Ep1 Michael Mwenso Honors George Floyd
  • Ep2 Afterwards
  • Ep3 Ma's House
  • Ep4 20 Years of Asian American Playwriting
• WQED DIGITAL DOCS
  • Love What You Do: Shy's Story

See our full described TV shows listing.