NOVA

THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY OF THE BUTTERFLIES WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18 @ 7:00PM Orange-and-black wings fill the sky as NOVA charts one of nature’s most remarkable phenomena: the epic migration of monarch butterflies across North America. To capture a butterfly’s point of view, NOVA’s filmmakers used a helicopter, ultralight, and hot-air balloon for aerial views along the transcontinental...

NAZI MEGA WEAPONS

SUPER TANKS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30 @ 8:00PM With historic footage, recreations of milestone moments and interviews with history, engineering, and military strategy experts, Nazi Mega Weapons recounts the strategic triumphs and wartime blunders of the Third Reich. Hitler’s megalomaniacal impulses led him to demand the construction of the largest tank the world had ever seen – a mobile fortress...

RUBEN SALAZAR

MAN IN THE MIDDLE A VOCES SPECIAL PRESENTATION FRIDAY, MAY 4 @ 11:00PM Ruben Salazar: Man in the Middle, a documentary by Phillip Rodriguez, examines the life and mysterious death of pioneering journalist Ruben Salazar. At the heart of the story is Salazar’s transformation from a mainstream, establishment reporter to primary chronicler and supporter of the radical Chicano movement of the late...

INDEPENDENT LENS

REVENGE OF THE ELECTRIC CAR MONDAY, APRIL 28 @ 8:00PM In 2006, as many as 5,000 modern electric cars were destroyed by the major car companies that built them. That automotive massacre was documented in Chris Paine’s documentary Who Killed the Electric Car? Today, the electric car is back with a vengeance. In Revenge of the Electric Car, Paine is back, taking his crew behind the closed...

MASTERPIECE CLASSIC

MR. SELFRIDGE SEASON 2 EPISODE 5 SUNDAY, APRIL 27 @ 10:00PM Business carries on at Selfridges, where German-made goods are being replaced with English products. Harry organizes a patriotic concert to benefit the troops, featuring a popular music hall tenor (portrayed by Alfie Boe) who gets Lady Mae (his former stage partner) to join him. Miss Mardle’s new lodger, a Belgian violinist, also...