RISE OF THE BOLSONAROS

FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 @ 5:00PM Since his landslide victory in 2018, Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has rarely been out of the headlines, with his controversial views on gender, indigenous rights and the Amazon. Yet, despite the increasingly vocal demands for his impeachment, Bolsonaro continues to have millions of supporters. This is the story of a remarkable rise from obscurity to the...

THOMAS JEFFERSON

LIFE/LIBERTY: OUR SACRED HONOR FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 @ 7:00PM @ 11:00PM Jefferson also made himself into a true renaissance man – a scholar, a philosopher, a diplomat, an aesthete, and an architect. As a young man, he was transformed by the fire of the Enlightenment into America’s most articulate voice for human liberty. FIND OUT MORE...

VELVET

COUNTDOWN THURSDAY, JANUARY 30 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM The big day has come, and Cristina must approve the new dress Ana made overnight. Alberto receives a mysterious letter. FIND OUT MORE...

ICONIC AMERICA

OUR SYMBOLS AND STORIES THE STATUE OF LIBERTY TEUSDAY, JANUARY 28 @ 8:00PM & 12:00AM Reveal the evolving meaning of this symbol for a “nation of immigrants,” and how it embodies our values and our conflicts, from abolition and women’s suffrage to the treatment of refugees. FIND OUT MORE...

GREAT MIGRATIONS

GREAT MIGRATIONS A PEOPLE ON THE MOVE EXODUS SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 @ 9:00PM Episode one of Great Migrations explores the first wave of the Great Migration (1910-1940), a collective leap into the unknown as more than a million Black Americans fled the Jim Crow South for the promised lands of the North. In the face of some of the country’s worst racist violence, these migrants established...