WASHINGTON WEEK

WITH GWEN IFILL FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21 @ 9:00PM THIS WEEK: UKRAINE ERUPTS, MINIMUM WAGE, 2014 ELECTION SPENDING & RACES TO WATCH Violent protests between police in Ukraine and anti-government demonstrators escalated on Thursday after a truce between the president and opposition leaders fell apart. The debate over raising the minimum wage turned into a political firestorm this week after the...

GREAT PERFORMANCES

STING: THE LAST SHIP FRIDAY, AUGUST 8 @ 11:00PM Sting and his band and Jimmy Nail perform “Shipyard” from his album and upcoming musical, The Last Ship, live at the Public Theater in New York City. The song introduces various characters in the shipbuilding community. In this excerpt from the performances, Sting sings the part of a shop steward. “Ah, me name is Tommy Thompson, I’m shop...

NOVA

MYSTERY OF EASTER ISLAND WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10 @ 10:00PM A remote, bleak speck of rock in the middle of the Pacific, Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, has mystified the world ever since the first Europeans arrived in 1722. How and why did the ancient islanders build and move nearly 900 giant statues or moai, weighing up to 86 tons? And how did they transform a presumed paradise into a treeless...

NATURE

HONEY BADGERS: MASTERS OF MAYHEM WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16 @ 9:00PM “Honey badger is bad ass.” Those words and corresponding video became a YouTube sensation with 51 million hits. This relentless little creature is one of the most fearless animals in the world, renowned for its ability to confront grown lions, castrate charging buffalo, and shrug off the toxic defenses of stinging bees,...

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

THE RISE AND FALL OF PENN STATION TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18 @ 10:00PM In 1910, the Pennsylvania Railroad successfully accomplished the enormous engineering feat of building tunnels under New York City’s Hudson and East Rivers, connecting the railroad to New York and New England, knitting together the entire eastern half of the United States. The tunnels terminated in what was one of the...