PBS NewsHour

April 21, 2019 - PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode

On this edition for Sunday, April 21, more than 200 people were killed in Sri Lanka in a coordinated terrorist attack by suicide bombers in churches and hotels. Also, the creator of the “Cathy” comic strip chronicles the ups and downs of the next chapter in life, and a filmmaker uses home movies to tell the hidden stories of American cities. Hari Sreenivasan anchors from New York

Filmmaker unearths historical treasures in home movies

8m 17s

Rick Prelinger produces a film series called “Lost Landscapes," montages that present city life across 100 years. These portraits tell hidden histories of American cities through the most personal of lenses: home movies. So far, he’s presented films about San Francisco, Detroit, Oakland, Los Angeles, and New York. NewsHour Weekend Special Correspondent Joanne Elgart Jennings reports.

Previews + Extras

  • 'Cathy' comic strip creator looks to the next chapter: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    'Cathy' comic strip creator looks to the next chapter

    S2019 E128 - 6m 44s

    Cathy Guisewite is the creator of the "Cathy" comic strip, which ran for 34 years before her 2010 retirement. Guisewite's new book of humorous essays, "Fifty Things That Aren't My Fault," chronicles the next chapter of her life, and all the pressures and anxieties of being a mother to a daughter now in her twenties, and caring for her aging parents. NewsHour Weekend’s Megan Thompson has more.

  • The impact of Chernobyl's nuclear disaster 33 years later: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    The impact of Chernobyl's nuclear disaster 33 years later

    S2019 E128 - 4m 28s

    It will be 33 years this week that the former Soviet Union experienced a devastating nuclear disaster in what is now a part of Chernobyl, Ukraine, killing 29 people and causing permanent evacuations for miles. For more on the aftermath of the accident, Hari Sreenivasan is joined by Adam Higginbotham, author of “Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster.”

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