Milwaukee PBS Digital
Segments from our award-winning broadcast programs, 10thirtysix, Adelante, Black Nouveau and The Arts Page. We will also feature never before heard or seen digital-first segments and specials! Tune in and be informed, entertained and updated about all things Milwaukee!
Episodes
248 episodes
The Making of Milwaukee: The Next Chapter
The Making of Milwaukee: The Next Chapter celebrates the tenth anniversary of the history-making television series. It begins where the series ended. The new segment updates some of what has happened in Milwaukee since 2006. It looks at busines...
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Season 4
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Episode 18
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29:39
The Making of Milwaukee - Chapter 17: Almost Yesterday
Chapter 17: Almost YesterdayParades, Festivals, Ethnic Pride. New Ethnic Groups. De-industrialization Hammers Milwaukee. The City Reinvented.
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Season 4
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Episode 17
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16:56
The Making of Milwaukee - Chapter 16: City Under Siege
Chapter 16: City Under SiegeNew Civic Structures and Urban “Renewal”. Poverty, Prejudice, Housing Discrimination. The Riot of 1967.
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Season 4
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Episode 16
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22:16
The Making of Milwaukee - Chapter 15: The Exploding Metropolis
Chapter 15. The Exploding MetropolisAfter the War: a Baby Boom, a Housing Boom, an Economic Boom. Socialism Returns to City Hall. Suburbs and Annexations. The Milwaukee Braves.
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Season 4
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Episode 15
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16:18
The Making of Milwaukee - Chapter 14: Hard Times and War Time
Chapter 14: Hard Times and War TimeThe Great Depression. The Rise of Labor. Prohibition Ends. World War II Claims a Mayor. Milwaukee’s Industrial Might Goes to War.
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Season 4
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Episode 14
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24:03
The Making of Milwaukee - Chapter 13: The Roaring Twenties
Chapter 13: The Roaring TwentiesAmerica Turns Inward. Manufacturing Soars. African-Americans and Latino Premeros Make Milwaukee Home. Automobiles, Electric Lights, Radios and Movies.
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Season 4
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Episode 13
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17:48
The Making of Milwaukee - Chapter 12: The War to End Wars
Chapter 12: The War to End WarsMaking the World Safe for Democracy, 1917. Anti-German Fever in Milwaukee. Socialists under Siege. Prohibition Closes the Breweries.
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Season 4
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Episode 12
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11:44
The Making of Milwaukee - Chapter 11: Socialists at Work
Chapter 11: Socialists at Work“Municipal Enterprise”. Honest Government and Civic Virtue. Creating Milwaukee’s Park System.
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Season 4
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Episode 11
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10:55
The Making of Milwaukee - Chapter 10: Trouble in Town
Chapter 10: Trouble in TownDirty Air and Water. Dirty Milwaukee Politics. Socialists and Labor Rise Up for Clean Government.
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Season 4
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Episode 10
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14:39
The Making of Milwaukee - Chapter 9: Greater Milwaukee
Chapter 9: Greater MilwaukeeArchitectural Adventures: Mansions, Theaters, Offices, a Million-Dollar City Hall in 1895. Suburbs Rise from South Milwaukee to Whitefish Bay. A “Big Small Town”.
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Season 4
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Episode 9
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14:08
The Making of Milwaukee - Chapter 8: Machine Shop of the World
Chapter 8: Machine Shop of the WorldMilwaukee, the Manufacturing Powerhouse. Enterprising Inventors, Mechanics, and Machinists. Workers Seek the Eight Hour Day. Rioting and Bloodshed in 1886.
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Season 4
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Episode 8
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18:00
The Making of Milwaukee - Chapter 7: City of Immigrants
Chapter 7: City of ImmigrantsEthnic Europe Discovers Milwaukee. A Polish Fishing Village and Milwaukee's Basilica. Irish, Italians, Greeks, Jews & Eastern Europeans Spice the Ethnic Stew.
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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21:02
The Making of Milwaukee - Chapter 6: City of Industries
Chapter 6: City of IndustriesTanneries, Breweries, Slaughterhouses. Steam Engines, Machine Shops, Iron Rails. Plankinton, Pfister, Pabst, Miller, Allis. Milwaukee Grows Economic Muscle.
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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18:45
The Making of Milwaukee - Chapter 5: Neighbors and Strangers
Chapter 5: Neighbors and StrangersMilwaukee becomes a Melting Pot; Irish, English, African-Americans. Ethnic Tensions, Abolitionist Fervor, and a Tragic Shipwreck. The Civil War.
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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15:27
The Making of Milwaukee - Chapter 4: Here Come the Germans
Chapter 4: Here Come the GermansWaves of German Immigrants. Beer, Brats, Gemutlichkeit. Milwaukee, “the German Athens of America”.
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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11:26
The Making of Milwaukee - Chapter 3: King Wheat
Chapter 3: King WheatWheat Sows the Seeds of a Growing City. Railroads and Brash Byron Kilbourn.
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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13:17
The Making of Milwaukee - Chapter 2: New Frontiers
Chapter 2: New FrontiersLake Michigan brings Settlers. Agricultural Plenty. Milwaukee’s Three Founders Struggle for Supremacy. Milwaukee becomes a City, 1846.
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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17:53
The Making of Milwaukee - Chapter 1 - Natives and Traders
Native Americans, Fertile Land, Pristine Waters. French Explorers and Trader Soloman Juneau. Exile of the Potawatomi.
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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15:26
Making of Milwaukee - Introduction
The Making of Milwaukee is a five hour, high definition video series that explores the intriguing people who came to live beside Lake Michigan: their politics, their triumphs, and tragedies, their work, and play. From civic saints to scoundrels...
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Season 4
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Rhythm Cafe | VOL47 - Through a Gallery Window | Shawn Alan Hurd
Shawn Alan Hurd is a guitarist, harmonicist, folk singer songwriter, storyteller. His musical style lend itself to Folk and Americana. Sound inspired by roots folk and blues. His music looks through the lens of a character and the story that...
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Season 3
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Episode 17
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6:04
Rhythm Cafe | Meet the Artist | Shawn Alan Hurd
Shawn Alan Hurd is a guitarist, harmonicist, folk singer songwriter, storyteller. His musical style lend itself to Folk and Americana. Sound inspired by roots folk and blues. His music looks through the lens of a character and the story that...
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Season 3
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Episode 16
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3:30
Rhythm Cafe | VOL46 - Billboard | Holy Pinto
Holy Pinto’s original song Billboard is a deeply reflective track about the inescapable nature of self—wherever we go, we take our thoughts, emotions, and burdens with us. Whether you’re in Milwaukee, Antarctica, or anywhere in between...
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Season 3
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Episode 15
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4:44
Rhythm Cafe | VOL45 - Milwaukee | Holy Pinto
"Milwaukee" captures the feeling of drifting into a place and, before you know it, realizing you’ve put down roots. When I first came here, I wasn’t sure I was moving—I just kept coming back. And one night, after a week of going out, after a Fa...
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Season 3
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Episode 14
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4:18
Rhythm Cafe | Meet the Artist | Holy Pinto
Holy Pinto, is an indie songwriter and is originally from Canterbury, England, now resides in Milwaukee. Holy Pinto is the musical project of Aymen Saleh. Influences come from indie pop-alternative, punk and pop music.<...
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Season 3
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Episode 13
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3:12
Rhythm Cafe MKE | VOL44 - If The Sun | Eric Erickson
"If the Sun" is a poignant song about love, loss, and remembrance. Inspired by the simple yet powerful idea, "If the sun comes up this morning, I still love you," the song captures the emotional depth of honoring someone who’s no longer part of...
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Season 3
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Episode 12
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