MASTERPIECE CLASSIC

MR. SELFRIDGE SEASON 2, EPISODE 8 SUNDAY, MARCH 22 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM Tempers flare as Harry and Loxley face off, Miss Mardle gives Mr. Grove a tongue-lashing, Victor and Henri clash, Kitty tells Frank to shape up, and Delphine finds her influence wavering. Meanwhile, an American journalist searches for the happy side of Selfridges, the store promotes “the comforts of home,” Agnes gets...

AMERICAN MASTERS

PLIMPTON! STARRING GEORGE PLIMPTON AS HIMSELF FRIDAY,  JUNE 17 @ 7:00PM & 12:00AM In 1982 The Paris Review was the first magazine to publish a short story by Jay McInerney. “It’s Six A.M. Do You Know Where You Are?” shared the fiction pages with works by Michael Cunningham, Lamar Herrin, Norman Mailer, Barbara Milton and Craig Nova. In this film outtake from Plimpton! Starring George...

WASHINGTON WEEK

WITH GWEN IFILL FRIDAY, MAY 16 @ 9:00PM THIS WEEK: VA HOSPITAL PROBE, IMMIGRATION REFORM, MIDTERM POLITICS, AND 2016 RACE FOR THE WHITE HOUSE Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki said he is “mad as hell” over allegations that veterans did not receive timely medical care at Veterans Administration hospitals around the country. The retired four-star general testified on Capitol Hill...

NATURE

LEAVE IT TO BEAVERS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28  @ 9:00PM Busy beavers work tirelessly to build dams of stone, logs and mud – and are born equipped and ready for the job. Beavers are capable of felling hundreds of trees if damming a river is necessary. Once a safe haven of deep water has been secured, dedicated beavers set up lodges to raise and protect their families. Browse the gallery of...

NOVA

ESCAPE FROM NAZI ALCATRAZ WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22 @ 10:00PM Colditz Castle, a notorious prisoner of war camp in Nazi Germany, was supposed to be escape-proof. But in the dark days at the end of World War II, a group of British officers dreamt up the ultimate escape plan: in a secret attic workshop, they constructed a two-man glider out of bed sheets and floorboards. Their plan was to fly to freedom...