WOMEN, WAR & PEACE

PEACE UNVEILED TUESDAY. OCTOBER 25 @ 8:00PM & 11:00PM When the U.S. troop surge was announced in late 2009, women in Afghanistan knew that the ground was being laid for peace talks with the Taliban. Peace Unveiled follows three women who immediately began to organize to make sure that women’s rights don’t get traded away in the deal. One is a savvy parliamentarian who participated in...

HISTORY DETECTIVES

HISTORY DETECTIVES MONDAY, OCTOBER 24 @ 8:00PM & 11:00PM The Case: Our contributor found an unusual 1950’s comic book at an auction, titled Negro Romance. This was the Golden Age of comic books, when Americans voraciously consumed stories about superheroes, determined detectives and thrilling romances – yet very few featured African American characters. Did black artists...

MASTERPIECE MYSTERY!

CASE HISTORIES EPISODE 2 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM While jogging along a beach, Edinburgh private investigator Jackson Brodie spots a lifeless woman in the water surrounded by pink cards. Brodie thrashes through the waves towards her as childhood memories of his own sister’s water tragedy overtake him. As he turns the woman over, her distinctly Eastern Orthodox earrings...

SCHEDULE 10/20 -10/26

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PBS ARTS FROM SEATTLE

AMERICAN MASTERS PEARL JAM TWENTY SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22 @ 7:00PM &12:00AM American Masters continues its 25th anniversary season with Pearl Jam Twenty, premiering nationally Academy Award®-winning director and music journalist Cameron Crowe creates a definitive portrait of the seminal band carved from over 1,200 hours of rarely and never-before-seen footage, plus over 24 hours of recent...