CHATAUQUA

AN AMERICAN NARRATIVE MONDAY, JANUARY 30 @ 8:00PM & 11:00PM The Chautauqua Institution is a rich community of ideas, where the arts, education, and religion all blend together to enrich the mind and the spirit. For nine weeks every summer, the Chautauqua Institution is a place where thought and culture converge in an open public platform for discussion and debate. There is no other place...

SCHEDULE JANUARY 27 – FEBRUARY 2

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NOVA

MAKING STUFF SMALLER WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26 @ 7:00PM & 10:00PM How small can we go? Could we one day have robots taking “fantastic voyages” in our bodies to kill rogue cells? The triumphs of tiny are seen all around us in the Information Age: transistors, microchips, laptops, cell phones. Now, David Pogue takes NOVA viewers to an even smaller world in “Making Stuff:...

Pioneers of Television

WESTERNS THURSDAY, JANUARY 27 @7:00PM & 10:00PM For years, sprawling Westerns had been popular in the cinema, making rugged, plain-speaking actors such as John Wayne and Clint Eastwood huge stars. During the Golden Age of Television — the early 1940s through 1961 — and into the 1970s, Westerns were produced for the small screen with success. In 1959 alone more than 30 different Westerns...

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

PANAMA CANAL TUESDAY, APRIL 3 @ 7:30PM & 10:30PM On August 15th, 1914, the Panama Canal opened, connecting the world’s two largest oceans and signaling America’s emergence as a global superpower. American ingenuity and innovation had succeeded where, just a few years earlier, the French had failed disastrously. But the U.S. paid a price for victory. Find out more...