AMERICA REVEALED

ELECTRIC NATION MONDAY,APRIL 30 @ 8:00PM & 11:00PM Our modern electric power grid has been called the biggest and most complex machine in the world – delivering electricity over 200,000 miles of high tension transmission lines. In this third episode of America Revealed, host Yul Kwon travels around the country to understand its intricacies, its vulnerabilities, and the remarkable ingenuity...

SCHEDULE 4/26 – 5/2

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MASTERPIECE CLASSIC

BIRDSONG – EPISODE 2 SUNDAY, APRIL 29 @ 7:00PM & 11:30PM Stephen, in a convalescent hospital in Abbeville, turns down the offer of a desk job in London when he finds that his unit will be moving up to Amiens in preparation for the Somme offensive. He returns to the front and prepares to find Isabelle. Find out more...

ART IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

HISTORY FRIDAY, APRIL 27 @ 7:00PM & 12:00AM   How do artists mine the past to explore the present? Why do some historical events shape the way we think today, and why have some been forgotten? In what ways do artists use their own histories to examine the human condition? In this episode, artists play with historical events, explore and expose commonly held assumptions about historic...

INDEPENDENT LENS

FACING THE STORM: STORY OF THE AMERICAN BISON SATURDAY, APRIL 28 @ 8:00PM Tens of millions of bison once roamed North America. For 10,000 years, Native Americans on the Great Plains had a sacred relationship with the animal, relying on it for food, clothing, and shelter. But with the arrival of European Americans and their Manifest Destiny, ready to conquer the West and all of its resources,...