NOVA

MAKING STUFF WILDER WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17 @ 10:00PM What happens when scientists open up nature’s toolbox? In “Making Stuff Wilder,” David Pogue explores bold new innovations inspired by the Earth’s greatest inventor, life itself. From robotic “mules” and “cheetahs” for the military, to fabrics born out of fish slime, host David Pogue travels the...

THE AFRICAN AMERICANS

MANY RIVERS TO CROSS THE BLACK ATLANTIC (1500-1800) TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22 @ 9:00PM Noted Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. recounts the full trajectory of African-American history in his groundbreaking new six-part series The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. premiering tonight. Written and presented by Professor Gates, the six-hour series explores the...

FRONTLINE

HUNTING THE NIGHTMARE BACTERIA TUESDAY, MARCH 22 @ 11:00PM In Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria, Hoffman examines the alarming rise of superbugs that our modern antibiotics can’t stop—from Addie Rerecich’s case to that of David Ricci, who brings a nasty infection home from India, and to a rare look inside an uncontrollable outbreak at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center—the...

ANTIQUES ROADSHOW

BISMARCK HOUR 3 MONDAY, MARCH 31 @ 6:00PM ANTIQUES ROADSHOW is in Bismarck, North Dakota, where host Mark L. Walberg and appraiser Ted Trotta head to the State Historical Society of North Dakota to look at Plains Indian ledger drawings.  FIND OUT MORE...

INDEPENDENT LENS

THE WAITING ROOM/LET ME DOWN EASY MONDAY, OCTOBER 21 @ 8:00PM The Waiting Room intimately follows several people who pass through the emergency room of Highland Hospital in East Oakland, CA. Shot over several months and with a poignant mix of humor and drama, the film presents a composite portrait of a public institution struggling to care for a persistent and growing stream of patients living...