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 comments.

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PBS Documentaries Story of October 8, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

Revealing The Racial Divide in Nebraska | Full Documentary

A usual day on PBS Documentaries brings in around 129,000 views, and this week held almost exactly to that line. What changed was the film doing the pulling.

It is My Omaha, posted in full under the title "Revealing The Racial Divide in Nebraska." Director Nick Beaulieu goes back to his hometown as protests and political unrest shake it, and he sets out to document the racial justice movement while trying to stay close to his conservative father. The chapters move from North Omaha organizer Leo Louis and the city's churches to talks between father and son, his father's diagnosis and treatment, and a meeting with the director of A Time for Burning, the 1960s documentary about an Omaha congregation and race. Beaulieu has been in the comment section himself, offering to answer questions, and his producer Doug Block stopped by too. Many viewers single out the father's openness on camera, and a few from North Omaha say they know Leo.

The rest of the week was wide-ranging: MnM, a POV short by Twiggy Pucci Garçon about two chosen sisters in drag ballroom; Kyle Offutt asking what happens if public land goes private; and Shomi Patwary, the Bengali American filmmaker who came up beside Pharrell and Clipse in Virginia. Meanwhile, "Why are black Americans moving to Mexico?" kept climbing toward a million views.

About a million views came in over the seven days, and some 4,000 new subscribers. Among the documentary and journalism channels near its size, only American Experience gathered more views, while SBS Dateline is running well above its usual pace.

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