COMET ENCOUNTER

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20 @ 11:00PM Comets have fascinated, even terrified us for thousands of years. For scientists though, comets are a great opportunity. This year, 2013, a particularly massive chunk of ice and rock is coming our way, an object that will fascinate billions and should create the space show of the century. Right now Comet ISON, somewhere between one and 10 kilometers in diameter,...

NOVA

AT THE EDGE OF SPACE WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18  @ 7:00PM & 12:00AM Between the blue sky above and the infinite blackness beyond lies a frontier that scientists have only just begun to investigate. In “At the Edge of Space,” NOVA takes viewers on a spectacular exploration of the Earth-space boundary that’s home to some of nature’s most puzzling and alluring phenomena: the...

THE AFRICAN AMERICANS

MANY RIVERS TO CROSS RISE! (1940-1968) TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19 @ 9:00PM Rise! examines the long road to civil rights, when the deep contradictions in American society finally became unsustainable. Beginning in World War II, African Americans who helped fight fascism abroad came home to face the same old racial violence. But this time, mass media — from print to radio and TV — broadcast that...

LINCOLN@GETTYSBURG

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 @ 10:00AM In 1863 Abraham Lincoln proved himself a master of a new frontier—not on the battlefields of the Civil War, but in his high-tech command center: the War Department Telegraph Office, America’s first Situation Room. The Internet of the 19th century, the telegraph, gave Lincoln new powers to reshape leadership and wield personal control across distant...

INDEPENDENT LENS

INDIAN RELAY SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6 @ 11:00pm Indian Relay documents an unheralded aspect of modern-day Native American life and what it takes to win one of the more exciting forms of horse racing. From the bitter cold of winter to the heat of summer, the film follows teams from three different tribes as they compete across a grueling season. Find out more...