THE STORY OF INDIA

Episode 3: Spice Routes & Silk Roads MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30 @ 8:00pm & 11:00pm The next episode in the story of India takes us to the early centuries CE, the time of the Roman Empire in the west, and to “the happiest time in the history of the world” as the historian Edward Gibbon put it. In this period, located at the “center of world” India became a great player in...

Seabiscuit

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 @ 7:00pm & 10:00PM On New Year’s Eve, 1938, columnist Walter Winchell published his annual list of the year’s top ten newsmakers. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was among those mentioned. So was British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. The tenth spot, however, went to a horse. Seabiscuit was dung-colored and boxy, with stumpy...

SECRETS OF THE DEAD

MUMBAI MASSACRE THURSDAY, MARCH 21 @ 10:00pm Mumbai, November 26, 2008. What began as a typical day in a bustling, cosmopolitan city turned into a horror-filled 60 hours of orchestrated chaos when terrorists infiltrated the city and rampaged through the train station, cafes, a Jewish center and two of India’s most famous five- star hotels. As police struggled to coordinate a response and...

Schedule November 26 – December 2

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NOVA

What are Dreams? November 24 @ 6:00pm & 9:00pm What are dreams and why do we have them? NOVA joins leading dream researchers as they embark on a variety of neurological and psychological experiments to investigate the world of sleep and dreams. Delving deep into the thoughts and brains of a variety of dreamers, scientists are asking important questions about the purpose of this mysterious...