Great Performances

PLACIDO DOMINGO: MY FAVORITE ROLES FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 @7:00pm & 12:00AM The great Spanish tenor Placido Domingo looks back on his illustrious career – one which has been bountifully preserved on film and video. The celebrated tenor as he looks back and reflects with heartfelt candor on his choicest roles from opera houses around the world in this comprehensive performance...

UNUSUAL BUILDINGS & OTHER STUFF

A PROGRAM ABOUT UNUSUAL BUILDINGS & OTHER ROADSIDE STUFF SATURDAY,  JUNE 18 @ 8:00PM Celebrate some of America’s most interesting and goofy buildings, places like Long Island’s duck-shaped Big Duck and the National Fresh Water Fishing National Hall of Fame (in the shape of a five-story-tall fish) in Heyward, Wisconsin. In Mitchell, South Dakota, the unusual Corn Palace, decorated in...

FRONTLINE

THE WOUNDED PLATOON TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 @ 7:0PM & 10:00PM In The Wounded Platoon, FRONTLINE investigates a single Fort Carson platoon of infantrymen — the 3rd Platoon, Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry — and finds, after a long journey, a group of young men changed by war and battling a range of psychiatric disorders that many blame for their violent and...

THE STORM THAT SWEPT MEXICO

THE STORM THAT SWEPT MEXICO MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 @ 8:00PM & 11:00PM The Storm That Swept Mexico tells the gripping story of the Mexican Revolution of 1910, the first major political and social revolution of the 20th century. The revolution not only changed the course of Mexican history, transforming economic and political power within the nation, but also profoundly impacted the...

MASTERPIECE MYSTERY!

INSPECTOR LEWIS WILD JUSTICE SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM Rabbis, nuns, mullahs, and Buddhists peacefully commingle with their friar hosts at an interfaith conference at St. Gerard’s college. But when an American female bishop is found dead, poisoned by a glass of the college’s own chianti, Lewis (Kevin Whately) and Hathaway (Laurence Fox) suspect that the...