PBS Documentaries

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November 9, 2026 5.2x the video's usual pace Why Yemeni Coffee Shops Are Suddenly Everywhere ☕️ The video ran that day at 20,636 views a day, 5.2 times its usual pace (3,969).

This week on the channel +419K views this week

Kashia's coastal homecoming anchors PBS Documentaries' week

Coming Home follows land return, cultural renewal and a journey to ancestral artifacts in Russia.

Channel: PBS Documentaries · Story of November 7, 2026

This week on the channel +1M views this week

My Omaha: Nick Beaulieu, his conservative father and a divided hometown

The Independent Lens film went up in full on October 5 and passed 135,000 views in three days, with its director answering questions in the…

Channel: PBS Documentaries · Story of October 8, 2026

The video drawing the most views now

The Native Lands Oklahoma’s Dams Left Underwater | Full Documentary

Video published

November 10, 2026

Video views so far

6,004

Video views, pace per day

9,138

Views in its first 11 hours

6,004

YouTube: Position on Trari and in the category

The ranking by views counts only channels whose weekly number is available.

The channel's share of the category

0.6% of all views the category's channels gained this week

Subscriber growth this week

0.7% on this channel, 0.0% on the category's middle channel

YouTube: The channel's latest videos

The last 15 videos uploaded to the channel, with today's numbers. Click a video to play it here.

Video	Uploaded	Length	Views	Per day	First day	Likes	Comments
The Native Lands Oklahoma’s Dams Left Underwater | Full Doc…	November 10, 2026	56:08	6,004	9,138	6,004 (11 hours)	100	5
Can Art Class Solve the Reading Crisis? 📓	November 9, 2026	2:37 short	3,251	2,859	3,251 (34 hours)	395	18
The Neuroscience Behind the Fist Bump 👊	November 6, 2026	1:47 short	6,697	853	2,821	769	22
Designing Olivia Rodrigo’s Heart Guitar 💖🎸	November 4, 2026	1:57 short	5,830	45	3,504	337	5
After 170 Years, This California Tribe Returns Home | Full …	November 3, 2026	1:25:02	102,761	8,398	18,475	2,643	120
Did Big Tech Invent Cancel Culture? 🚫	November 2, 2026	1:35 short	2,770	10	2,191 (36 hours)	167	19
Why Yemeni Coffee Shops Are Suddenly Everywhere ☕️	October 30, 2026	2:05 short	52,887	2,628	6,574	3,905	173
The Black Community Fighting to Keep Its Ancestral Land	October 29, 2026	4:38	28,808	201	9,982	1,057	58
Pharrell, The Clipse, & the Gentrification of "Grindin'" 🔊	October 28, 2026	1:55 short	4,629	16	2,392	479	35
👀 Flock Cameras Are Watching. Should You Worry?	October 27, 2026	1:47 short	10,851	34	5,207	838	38
How Does an Undocumented Boxer Chase a World Title?	October 26, 2026	21:03	163,629	2,545	37,259 (31 hours)	2,203	190
What You Should Know About Hoodoo	October 23, 2026	1:02 short	8,201	492	2,124	704	15
Why Mexico’s Government Sees Feminist Activists as a Threat?	October 22, 2026	15:29	41,678	38	14,357	1,083	92
A Father and Son Debate White Privilege	October 21, 2026	1:24 short	5,169	10	2,735	253	45
What do you know about Gullah Geechee Culture?	October 20, 2026	1:15 short	40,249	3,268	4,288	4,279	81

Audience engagement

likes per 1,000 views

39.7 in the category: 19.7

comments per 1,000 views

1.9 in the category: 1.7

a video's usual first day on this channel

5,273 views

short vs long

10 short (up to 3 minutes), 5 long
average views per short video: 14,053
average views per long video: 68,576

YouTube: Most watched videos (not Shorts)

Video	Uploaded	Length	Views
Bob Ross Remixed | Happy Little Clouds | PBS Digital Studios	July 26, 2012	3:27	18,729,527
Mister Rogers Remixed | Garden of Your Mind | PBS Digital S…	June 7, 2012	3:14	15,061,408
Julia Child Remixed | Keep On Cooking | PBS Digital Studios	August 14, 2012	3:51	3,421,017
The Real History of Africa They Never Taught You | Full Doc…	May 4, 2026	53:11	3,015,679
Reading Rainbow Remixed | In Your Imagination | PBS Digital…	December 3, 2012	3:44	2,671,017

YouTube: Most watched Shorts

Video	Uploaded	Length	Views
Hoodoo and Voodoo: What’s the Difference?	May 24, 2023	0:59	343,984
What happens if public land goes private?	October 7, 2026	2:09	126,683
A fundamental Krump move	February 22, 2024	0:58	99,961
Is This The Next Burning Man?	September 2, 2026	2:16	66,658
These Children Could Talk to Dead People, but It Was a Prank	October 20, 2022	1:00	55,797

YouTube: What happened on the channel in the last 30 days

The days when the channel's numbers left the ordinary.

1. November 9, 2026Video surgingWhy Yemeni Coffee Shops Are Suddenly Everywhere ☕️ The video ran that day at 20,636 views a day, 5.2 times its usual pace (3,969).
2. October 22, 2026Views jumpThe whole channel ran that day at 245,342 views a day, 2.6 times a normal day (92,765).