9 TO 5: THE STORY OF A MOVEMENT

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1 @ 8:00PM & 11:30PM

When Dolly Parton sang “9 to 5,” she was doing more than just shining a light on the fate of American working women. Parton was singing the true story of a movement that started with 9to5, a group of Boston secretaries in the early 1970s. Their goals were simple—better pay, more advancement opportunities and an end to sexual harassment—but their unconventional approach attracted the press and shamed their bosses into change. Featuring interviews with 9to5’s founders, as well as actor and activist Jane Fonda, 9to5: The Story of a Movement is the previously untold story of the fight that inspired a hit and changed the American workplace. (90 Minutes)

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ON MASTERPIECE

THURSDAY, JUNE 2 @ 7:00PM

Follow the hardships and resilience of plantation slave July (Tamara Lawrance) in the last days of slavery in 19th-century Jamaica. Based on the novel by Andrea Levy.

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ON MASTERPIECE

EPISODE 4,  A TRICKI CASE

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23 @ 11:00PM

While Tristan gives Tricki-Woo the spa treatment, James deals with Helen’s champion bull. Siegfried makes a decision about Tristan.

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MUSICALS AND THE MOVIES

FRIDAY, JANUARY 7 @ 11:00PM

Since the first jazz concert in 1939, the genre has been a hallmark at the Hollywood Bowl. From then on, many music greats have graced its stage: Frank Sinatra, Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald, Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis among them. See what makes jazz nights at the Hollywood Bowl such an experience as you hear from the LA Phil’s Creative Chair for Jazz, Herbie Hancock.

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THE TRUE WELCOME (1929-1935)

THURSDAY, JANUARY 27 @ 10:00PM

Amid the Depression, the Lindy Hop begins to catch on at dance halls. The reminiscences of two of Harlem’s great dancers, Frankie Manning and Norma Miller, inform the episode. As swing dancing catches on, a new kind of big band jazz begins to emerge.

Acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns tells the story of jazz – the quintessential American art form. The 10-part series follows the growth and development of jazz music from its beginnings to the present.

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FORGOTTEN GENIUS

SATURDAY, JANUARY 30 @ 9:00PM

NOVA presents the remarkable life story of Percy Julian — not only one of the great African-American scientists of the 20th century, but an industrialist, self-made millionaire, humanitarian and civil rights pioneer.

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WINTER’S FORTRESS

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20 @ 11:00PM

In the second and final part of NATURE’s miniseries “The Alps,” experience the hostile and bitter cold ecosystems of the Alps, shaped by snow blizzards and avalanches.

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I RISE

TUESDAY, JANUARY 26 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM

In the fourth episode of PBS American Portrait, go inside the lives of people working to create an antiracist American future. They film themselves doing the hard work, confronting the obstacles and achieving the small victories that could add up to real change in the movement for racial justice.

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AGAINST ALL ODDS

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16 @ 9:00PM

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. introduces media personality Andy Cohen and radio journalist Nina Totenberg to ancestors who were determined to survive.

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