AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

THE TRIALS OF J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER MONDAY, MAY 23 @ 7:00PM & 10:00PM J. Robert Oppenheimer was brilliant, arrogant, proud, charismatic — and a national hero. Under his leadership during World War II, the United States succeeded in becoming the first nation to harness the power of nuclear energy to create the ultimate weapon of mass destruction — the atomic bomb. But after the bomb...

SECRETS OF THE DEAD

THE SILVER PHARAOH WEDNESDAY, JULY 3 @ 8:00PM Tanis, Egypt, circa 1939. On the brink of World War II, an excavation team led by French archaeologist Pierre Montet unearthed an intact royal burial chamber containing treasures that rival the riches found in Tutankhamun’s tomb almost two decades before. But while the Tut discovery created an international sensation, the opening of the tomb in...

SCHEDULE MAY 19 – MAY 25

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NOVA

BUILDING PHARAOH’S SHIP WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9  @ 8:00PM A magnificent trading vessel embarks on a royal expedition to a mysterious, treasure-laden land called Punt. Is this journey, intricately depicted on the wall of one of Egypt’s most impressive temples, mere myth—or was it a reality? NOVA travels to the legendary temple, built some 3,500 years ago for the celebrated female...

FRONTLINE

THE METH EPIDEMIC TUESDAY, MAY 15 @ 8:00PM & 11:00PM Speed. Meth. Glass. On the street, methamphetamine has many names. What started as a fad among West Coast motorcycle gangs in the 1970s has spread across the United States, and despite lawmakers’ calls for action, the drug is now more potent, and more destructive, than at any time in the past decade. In “The Meth...