BATTLE FOR THE ELEPHANTS

SATURDAY, JUNE 15 @ 11:00PM Battle for the Elephants explores the brutal slaughter of African elephants for their tusks, fueled largely by China’s demand for ivory. The film tells the ultimate wildlife story — how the Earth’s most charismatic and majestic land animal today faces market forces driving the value of its tusks to levels once reserved for precious metals. Journalists Bryan...

MAKERS

WOMEN WHO MAKE AMERICA SUNDAY, MARCH 3 @ 6:00PM  & 11:00PM MAKERS: Women Who Make America tells the remarkable story of the most sweeping social revolution in American history, as women have asserted their rights to a full and fair share of political power, economic opportunity, and personal autonomy. It’s a revolution that has unfolded in public and private, in courts and Congress, in...

MAKERS

WOMEN WHO MAKE AMERICA TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26 @ 6:00PM & 12:00AM MAKERS: Women Who Make America tells the remarkable story of the most sweeping social revolution in American history, as women have asserted their rights to a full and fair share of political power, economic opportunity, and personal autonomy. It’s a revolution that has unfolded in public and private, in courts and Congress,...

INDEPENDENT LENS

AI WEIWEI: NEVER SORRY MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25 @ 11:00PM China’s most internationally well-known artist is also its most famous dissident. Ai Weiwei uses his conceptual art to challenge the government. Chinese authorities have responded by beating him up, bulldozing his newly built studio, holding him in secret detention for 81 days, and trying to mute his enormous presence in social media. Find...

MASTERPIECE CONTEMPORARY

PAGE EIGHT SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 24 @ 7:00PM What happens when spies grow older in a post-9/11 world? Sixty-something MI-5 agent Johnny Worricker has amassed an impressive art collection, an amicable collection of ex-wives, and a droll, unflappable relationship with the work he enjoys alongside his boss and best friend, MI5 chief Benedict Baron. But when Benedict brings to light damning evidence of...