SWING: THE VELOCITY OF CELEBRATION (1937-1939)
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM
As the Great Depression deepens, jazz thrives. The saxophone emerges as an iconic instrument of the music and women musicians emerge on the jazz scene. Benny Goodman holds the first-ever jazz concert at Carnegie Hall.
Acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns tells the story of jazz – the quintessential American...
SEASON 2 ON MASTERPIECE
THURSDAY, APRIL 21 @ 7:00PM
EPISODE 4
An apparent suicide leads Sidney to perform an exorcism. Gary goes on trial. Leonard bets on a longshot. Margaret makes her move. Amanda confronts her lost love.
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WILD WAYS
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26 @ 11:00PM
Four-lane highways may be a necessity to our modern society, but they can be a death traps for millions of animals that try to cross them. Around the world, wildlife need to roam for breeding, foraging, and to carry out their traditional migrations–but they are often blocked by ranches, farms, roads, and other human-made obstacles. While national parks...
CHILDREN OF SYRIA
TUESDAY, APRIL 19 @ 11:00PM
The story of four children surviving in war-torn Aleppo, and their escape to a new life in Germany. The documentary follows a Syrian family that FRONTLINE first profiled back in 2014 over three years, from the siege of their city, to the kidnapping of their father, to the struggle of becoming refugees.
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THAT CHANGED AMERICA
THURSDAY, MARCH 7 @ 11:00PM
10 Towns that Changed America focuses on ten “experimental” towns that did not evolve organically over time, but instead were designed (or redesigned) from the ground up by visionary architects, corporations, and citizens, who sought to change the lives of residents using architecture, design, and urban planning. Some of these visionaries were...