LOST CIVIL WAR PRISON

A TIME TEAM AMERICA PRESENTATION TUESDAY, AUGUST 26 @ 6:00PM & 11:00PM In the fall of 1864 the Confederate Army marched Union prisoners into a hastily built compound called Camp Lawton in Jenkins County, Georgia. The population mushroomed to more than 10,000 in just six weeks. Then, as Sherman’s army approached, guards and prisoners alike were forced to flee. Abandoned, the camp...

THE LOST PUEBLO VILLAGE

A TIME TEAM AMERICA PRESENTATION TUESDAY, AUGUST 26 @ 10:00PM In Cortez, Colorado, the Team explores the Dillard site, a village that some 1500 years ago was home to people of the Basketmaker III era, a culture that advanced itself with technologies like farming, pottery, and the bow and arrow. The innovations of the Basketmaker III era led to the complex, beautiful Ancestral Pueblo cliff...

POV

BIG MEN MONDAY, AUGUST 25 @ 8:00PM Over five years, director Rachel Boynton and her cinematographer film the quest for oil in Ghana by Dallas-based Kosmos. The company develops the country’s first commercial oil field, yet its success is quickly compromised by political intrigue and accusations of corruption. As Ghanaians wait to reap the benefits of oil, the filmmakers discover violent...

SECRETS OF WESTMINSTER

SECRETS OF THE TOWER OF LONDON SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 28 @ 6:00PM & 10:00PM The Tower of London is England’s most formidable royal fortress, standing guard on the banks of the great River Thames. It is home to a thousand years of bloody history and is one of Britain’s most iconic landmarks. At almost every chapter in London’s history, ‘the Tower’ has had a starring role. Built...

MASTERPIECE MYSTERY!

BREATHLESS SUNDAY, AUGUST 24 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM When the brilliant Dr. Otto Powell takes over a surgery before his junior colleague, Dr. Richard Truscott, botches it, Truscott’s long-simmering resentment is compounded. But the encounter is lost on the powerful surgeon who whisks his striking new nurse Angela off to assist him, against her principles, on a highly illegal procedure:...