MISSION: To inform and inspire with real stories from around the world.

WORLD, with its passion for elevating storytelling, offers hope and promise by presenting new ideas, voices and solutions outside of the mainstream. From award-winning documentaries on America ReFramed, Doc World and Local, USA to insightful tellers on Stories from the Stage, you can experience the personal stories behind the headlines. Devoted to telling stories that humanize complex issues, WORLD shares the best of public media in news, documentaries, and fact-based informational programming that helps us understand conflicts, movements and cultures that may be distinct from your own.

While airing news and documentaries from PBS, WORLD's focus is on its original content, offering a national platform to makers examining issues too often ignored by mainstream media. WORLD’s emerging and master filmmakers spotlight a variety of voices, telling stories not heard elsewhere.

Since 2012, WORLD has developed four award-winning original series: America ReFramed for long-form documentaries about a transforming America; Doc World for international documentaries that explore urgent global challenges; Local, USA for local issues and forgotten histories of national importance; and Stories from the Stage, featuring ordinary people share extraordinary experiences. WORLD also showcases films and programs from filmmakers, public media stations and partners that highlight critical issues like education, healthcare, the environment and politics.

WORLD has won two Peabody Awards, an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award, an International Documentary Association Award, a National News and Documentary Emmy Award, multiple Webby Awards, and many others, including a NABJ Salute to Excellence Award, RTDNA Kaleidoscope Award, a Media for a Just Society Award, two NLGJA Excellence in Journalism Awards, two Gracie Awards, three National Native Media awards and an Asian American Journalists Award.

Carried by 203 partner stations in markets representing 78.63% of US TV households, WORLD can also be experienced on social and video platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and TikTok, YouTube and the PBS app.