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FRONTLINE

LAW & DISORDER WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25 @ 7:00PM 10:00PM Behind the enduring images of heroic rescues undertaken by the New Orleans Police Department in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, there is another story of law enforcement in crisis, even out of control. Law & Disorder, a year-long, ongoing collaboration among FRONTLINE, ProPublica and the New Orleans Times-Picayune, investigates...

NOVA

THE FOUR-WINGED DINOSAUR TUESDAY, AUGUST 24 @ 6:00PM In 2002, the discovery of a beautiful and bizarre fossil astonished scientists and reignited the debate over the origin of flight. With four wings and superbly preserved feathers, the 130 million-year-old creature was like nothing paleontologists had ever seen before. In this program, NOVA travels to the Chinese stone quarry where the fossil...

Citizen Architect

Samuel Mockbee and the Spirit of the Rural Studio MONDAY, AUGUST 23 @ 8:00PM & 11:00PM Citizen Architect: Samuel Mockbee and the Spirit of the Rural Studio is a documentary film on the late architect Samuel Mockbee and the radical educational design/build program known as the Rural Studio. Hale County, Alabama is home to some of the most impoverished communities in the United States of...

NATURE

Rhinoceros SUNDAY, AUGUST 22 @ 6:00PM & 10:00PM Among the most ancient of animals, rhinoceroses thrived for millions of years before meeting their most deadly enemy: humans. During the past century, the rhinos of Africa and Asia have been pushed out of their habitats and hunted nearly to extinction for their horns, which are believed — erroneously — to possess healing properties. Now,...