INDEPENDENT LENS

HELL AND BACK AGAIN THURSDAY, MAY 31 @ 8:00PM & 11:00PM In 2009, U.S. Marines launch a major helicopter assault on a Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan. Within hours of being dropped deep behind enemy lines, 25-year-old Sergeant Nathan Harris’s unit (U.S. Marines Echo Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment) is attacked from all sides. Cut off and surrounded, the Marines fight...

NATIONAL MEMORIAL DAY CONCERT

SUNDAY, MAY 27 @ 6:00PM & 7:00PM AND 10:00PM & 11:30PM   On the eve of Memorial Day, a star-studded line-up will grace the stage for one of PBS’ highest-rated programs. The multi award-winning television event has truly become an American tradition, honoring the military service and sacrifice of all our men and women in uniform, their families at home and those who have made the...

INDEPENDENT LENS

LEFT BY THE SHIP THURSDAY, MAY24 @ 8:00 & 11:00PM   In the 1970s and 1980s, the world was touched by the stories of Amerasian children, the offspring of U.S. military personnel stationed in Asia and the Pacific in the aftermath of World War II, and during the Korean and Vietnam wars. Many of these children were born to impoverished prostitutes who worked on the outskirts of the American...

NATURE

SALMON: RUNNING THE GAUNTLET WEDNESDAY, JULY 2 @ 10:00PM The Columbia River Basin once teemed with young salmon heading toward the ocean and mature salmon returning to their home rivers and streams to spawn. Now, many salmon species of the Pacific Northwest are extinct, and thirteen, including the iconic sockeye salmon, are currently endangered. When European Americans arrived in the area 150...

CIVILIZATION

THE WEST AND THE REST WITH NIALL FERUGUSON TUESDAY, MAY 29 @ 6:00PM & 9:00PM   For the past five centuries, Western civilizations have prevailed around the world. More people have been influenced by Western food, clothing, medicine, government and religion worldwide than by any other civilization. How did that happen? What led the West to be so influential and powerful? And how long...