PBS: Watch TV & Documentaries for PC - Free Download: Windows 10/11 Edition

★ ★ ★ PBS Overview

What is PBS? PBS Video is a streaming TV app that offers thousands of full-length episodes, live TV from local PBS stations, award-winning documentaries, and iconic series from PBS and member stations. The app allows users to watch TV and stream their favorite PBS shows anytime, anywhere.

Software Features and Description

1. Watch series, catch up on your favorite TV shows, and discover new episodes from Masterpiece, Ken Burns, NOVA, Nature, PBS NewsHour, Frontline, Antiques Roadshow, Finding Your Roots, American Experience, American Masters, Independent Lens, POV, Great Performances, Call the Midwife and so much more.

2. Unlike conventional streaming apps, PBS Video lets you access local TV live! Watch all your favorites, from documentaries to indie films, TV shows to musicals.

3. PBS Video features thousands of full-length episodes, the latest news, live TV from your local PBS station, award-winning documentaries, and iconic series from PBS and member stations.

4. Watch series you love and discover brand new shows, live or on demand, with PBS’s streaming TV app.

5. - Drama: All Creatures Great and Small, Miss Scarlet and the Duke, Poldark, Vienna Blood, Grantchester, Sanditon, World on Fire, Baptiste, Call the Midwife, Jamestown, and more.

6. - Award-Winning Films & Documentaries: Discover new perspectives with Ken Burns, Independent Lens, POV, Reel South, and the PBS Short Film Festival.

7. - Arts & Performances: Great Performances, Live from Lincoln Center, Austin City Limits, Now Hear This, Sound Field, and more.

8. - History: Antiques Roadshow, American Experience, American Masters, Origin of Everything, and Finding Your Roots, and more.

9. Add popular documentary films, TV shows, performances and more to your watchlist for easy viewing later.

10. Watch TV at your convenience by downloading the PBS Video App to your mobile device, tablet, computer, or TV.

11. - News & Public Affairs: Programs from PBS NewsHour, Frontline, Amanpour and Company, Firing Line, and Washington Week.

12. Liked PBS? here are 5 Entertainment apps like TV Stream: Watch & Cast TV゜HD; Vidfish - Watch China HD Drama; 왓챠 - WATCHA; fuboTV: Watch Live Sports & TV; Google TV: Watch Movies & TV;

Download and install PBS: Watch TV & Documentaries on your computer

GET Compatible PC App

App	Download	Rating	Maker
PBS	Get App ↲	219,895 4.89	PBS

Or follow the guide below to use on PC:

Select Windows version:

Windows 10
Windows 11

Install PBS: Watch TV & Documentaries app on your Windows in 4 steps below:

Download an Android emulator for PC:
Get either Bluestacks or the Nox App >> . We recommend Bluestacks because you can easily find solutions online if you run into problems while using it. Download Bluestacks PC software Here >> .

Install the emulator:
On your computer, goto the Downloads folder » click to install Bluestacks.exe or Nox.exe » Accept the License Agreements » Follow the on-screen prompts to complete installation.

Using PBS on PC [Windows 10/ 11]:

Open the Emulator app you installed » goto its search bar and search "PBS"
The search will reveal the PBS: Watch TV & Documentaries app icon. Open, then click "Install".
Once PBS is downloaded inside the emulator, locate/click the "All apps" icon to access a page containing all your installed applications including PBS.
Now enjoy PBS on PC.

Download a Compatible APK for PC

Download	Developer	Rating	Current version
Get APK for PC →	PBS	4.89	5.15.0

Get PBS on Apple macOS

Download	Developer	Reviews	Rating
Get Free on Mac	PBS	219895	4.89

Download on Android: Download Android

PBS: Watch TV & Documentaries functions

- Stream local and live TV

- Watch TV shows on demand

- Stream a variety of content, including specially curated playlists, short films, interviews, and extras

- Watch TV series across multiple genres, including drama, foreign dramas, news and public affairs, award-winning films and documentaries, history, arts and performances, and science and nature

- Access an expanded library of acclaimed PBS programming

- Save episodes of favorite TV shows to a custom watchlist

- Watch TV anywhere by downloading the PBS Video App to mobile devices, tablets, computers, or TV

- Stream more with PBS Passport, an added benefit of station membership that offers extended and exclusive access to 1,500+ episodes of favorite shows, past and current seasons of popular shows, early releases, and special collections like Ken Burns films.

- Learn more about PBS Video, PBS Passport, and PBS Support on their respective websites.

✔ Pros:

- Provides access to PBS content for paid members

- Offers a variety of PBS shows and programs

- Has a recognizable and trusted brand name

☹ Cons:

- App is less flexible than desired

- Forgets user preferences, such as brightness settings

- Requires paid membership to access content

- Chromecast support is unreliable

- Navigation and rewinding features are difficult to use

- Forces users to watch ads even with paid membership

Top Pcmac Reviews

Greedy Premium Broadcasting Service

By TeX King (Pcmac user)

The app doesn't seem to let me watching TV from my cable subscription. It requires membership with requires a payment. This is rather greedy. Many other app, like CNN and CNBC, let me watch TV programs using my cable subscription. Even if we Ignore cable subscription, the "Public Broadcasting Service" is supposed to serve those who do not have money to pay for TV service. With the requirement of paid membership, the this app does not serve those who do not have money. This is not public service. The name of this app is now meaning "Premium Broadcasting Service." At times I was thinking of donating money to this app, but I held back because I realized that my donation serves only those who are rich enough to pay for this app membership. The donation will never benefit those poor kids. I am happy to donate to help the poor. But, what's the point to donate to help the rich?
Great content, dismal streaming

By Spsulli (Pcmac user)

It’s this app, it’s an American classic. Unfortunately if you want to stream it this app is infuriating. The chromecast support is terrible, it fails to cast 50% of the time, never remembers where you left off and god forbid you want to rewind EVER. Once streaming you have no control over the video as it always reads as 00:00. The most insulting part is that even when you donate to this app as a passport member you are still forced to watch an ad every time you stream. (The most insulting part being that the ad ALWAYS loads even when the episode fails. So you watch a whole ad just for it to finish and just stream the this app logo.) Best solution I have found so far is disconnecting from chromecast go to the episode and spot you want on your phone, then reconnect, still only works about 70% of the time but still better.
Good app when it works

By grandmadebi3 (Pcmac user)

This is a good app when it’s working. It is less flexible than I would like. If I forget to turn the brightness up before I start a video, then do so, I am booted out of the video and made to watch an ad before I can get back in. Why am I watching ads when I am a paid member of this app? Now this evening, after repeated efforts, the only thing it will show me is ads. An ad plays, then stops with the last frame of the ad filling my screen. Any effort I make to move on from there results in more ads, which always stall at the end.
Love PBS, ‘Glad to be able to stream, ‘Hate this app

By D. Poole (Pcmac user)

If you attempt a short rewind to get something you missed,, knowing how far back you’ve gone involves reading two tiny timestamps on screen, stopping at the desired point, resuming play, then waiting a variable and lengthy number of seconds for the navigation bar, program name, and overall length to clear and the screen to brighten. Unless you go way back, by the time that has happened, you’ve often missed what you wanted to repeat. Those who designed and now maintain this app apparently have never themselves even tried to use it. It’s sad, this app, given the availability of non-this app streaming apps that navigate easily and that this app users pay a Passport “donation” to gain access.