FRONTLINE

MONEY, POWER AND WALL STREET TUESDAY, APRIL 24 @ 7:00PM & 10:00PM   Since 2008, Wall Street and Washington have fought against the tide of the fiercest financial crisis since the Great Depression. Now, FRONTLINE’s veteran financial and political producers Martin Smith (College Inc., The Madoff Affair) and Michael Kirk (Inside the Meltdown, The Warning), team up to present the inside...

MASTERPIECE CLASSIC

BIRDSONG SUNDAY, APRIL 22 @ 7:00PM & 11:30PM Lieutenant Stephen Wraysford is stationed in the trenches of the western front in France in 1916. But Stephen’s mind is elsewhere, reliving his relationship with Isabelle Azaire, the married woman he met and fell in love with in Amiens during the summer of 1910. Stephen is ordered to oversee the men digging a tunnel under no-man’s-land...

SCHEDULE 4/19-4/25

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ART IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

BOUNDARIES FRIDAY, APRIL 20 @ 7:00PM & 12:00 AM “Boundaries” from Season 6 of “Art in the Twenty-First Century” (2012), features artists David Altmejd, Tabaimo, assume vivid astro focus, and Lynda Benglis. Who and what limits our freedom of expression? In what ways do cultural differences affect our understanding of art and other forms of communication? How do an...

INDEPENDENT LENS

REVENGE OF THE ELECTRIC CAR THURSDAY, APRIL 19 @ 8:00PM & 11:00PM In 2006, as many as 5,000 modern electric cars were destroyed by the major car companies that built them. That automotive massacre was documented in Chris Paine’s documentary Who Killed the Electric Car? Today, the electric car is back with a vengeance. In Revenge of the Electric Car, Paine is back, taking his crew...