WASHINGTON WEEK

WITH GWEN IFILL FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27 @ 9:00PM This Week on Washington Week | Measuring the Mood of America: Concerns About Terror Attacks, Distrust of Elected Leaders In the aftermath of the Paris attacks, President Obama tried to reassure nervous Americans this week that there is no credible intelligence about a terrorist plot against the U.S. New polls show a majority of Americans are fearful...

ALICES RESTAURANT

50TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26 @ 6:00PM For decades, folk music fans have tuned in to their radios for an annual Thanksgiving ritual: listening to Arlo Guthrie‘s “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree.” The 18-minute song is an epic piece of storytelling and now, 50 years on, it’s being commemorated in a nationwide concert tour and Thanksgiving PBS television special. Arlo...

NOVA

EINSTEIN’S BIG IDEA WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25 @ 11:00PM Over 100 years ago, Albert Einstein grappled with the implications of his revolutionary special theory of relativity and came to a startling conclusion: mass and energy are one, related by the formula E = mc2. In “Einstein’s Big Idea,” NOVA dramatizes the remarkable story behind this equation. E = mc2 was just one of...

NOVA

INSIDE EINSTEIN’S MIND SATURDAY, JUNE 1 @ 11:00PM On November 25th, 1915, Einstein published his greatest work: general relativity. The theory transformed our understanding of nature’s laws and the entire history of the cosmos, reaching back to the origin of time itself. Now, in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Einstein’s achievement, NOVA tells the inside story of Einstein’s...

SECRETS OF THE DEAD

JAMESTOWN’S DARK WINTER WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31 @ 8:00PM & 12:00AM Jamestown, Virginia. The site of the first permanent English colony the Americas settled in 1607 and the home of the archaeological site “Historic Jamestowne” today. It has long been speculated that the harsh conditions faced by the colonists during the winter of 1609, often referred to as the “starving time,”...