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INDEPENDENT LENS

LITTLE WHITE LIE MONDAY, JANUARY 18 @ 8:00PM Filmmaker Lacey Schwartz grew up in a typical upper middle class Jewish household in Woodstock, NY, with loving parents and a strong sense of her identity, despite occasional remarks from those around her who wondered how a white girl could have such dark skin. As a child she believed her family’s explanation — that her appearance was inherited...

NATURE

ATTENBOROUGH’S LIFE STORIES OUR FRAGILE PLANET SUNDAY, MARCH 22 @ 10:00PM Episode three: Attenborough’s Life Stories: Our Fragile Planet Attenborough reflects on the dramatic impact that we have had on the natural world during his lifetime. Attenborough shares his memories of the scientists and the breakthroughs that helped shape his own career in translating these discoveries into...

WASHINGTON WEEK

WITH GWEN IFILL FRIDAY, MARCH 20 @ 9:00PM This Week: Netanyahu’s Re-Election, Nuclear Talks with Iran, GOP’s Budget Battles and Big Money in 2016. Benjamin Netanyahu’s surprisingly decisive re-election victory has put an added strain on U.S. relations with Israel. The Prime Minister’s campaign rhetoric ruling out a Palestinian state and his opposition to President...

RISE OF THE BLACK PHARAOHS

THURSDAY, MARCH 19 @ 10:00PM Around 800 BC, Kush, a little-known subject state of Egypt, rose up and conquered Egypt, enthroned its own Pharaohs and ruled for nearly 100 years. This unlikely chapter of history has been buried by the Egyptians and was belittled by early archaeologists, who refused to believe that dark-skinned Africans could have risen so high. FIND OUT MORE...