AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 @ 11:00PM
One hundred years after the passage of the 19th Amendment, The Vote tells the dramatic culmination story of the hard-fought campaign waged by American women for the right to vote.
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GRANTCHESTER
ON MASTERPIECE
SEASON 5, EPISODE 4
SUNDAY, JULY 5 @ 10:00PM
A streaker is found dead, sparking an unusual case for Will and Geordie that draws them into the world of experimental psychotherapy and hallucinogens.
ROYAL MYTHS & SECRETS
LUCY WORSLEY’S ROYAL MYTHS & SECRETS
MARIE ANTOINETTE, THE DOOMED QUEEN
SUNDAY, APRIL 9 @ 10:00PM
Find out why Marie Antoinette is often blamed for causing the French Revolution by saying “let them eat cake” to her starving subjects. Lucy Worsley uncovers the myths and secrets that led the doomed queen to the guillotine.
A CAPITOL FOURTH 2020
SATURDAY, JULY 4 @ 6:00PM & 7:30PM & 11:00PM
Join us July 4 at 8/7c on PBS for a special 40th anniversary presentation of A Capitol Fourth, featuring Patti LaBelle, John Fogerty, Renée Fleming, Trace Adkins, Andy Grammer, Yolanda Adams, Brantley Gilbert, Lauren Alaina, The Temptations, Chrissy Metz, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Kelli O’Hara, Mandy Gonzalez, Maestro Jack Everly conducting the NSO and co-hosted by John Stamos and Vanessa Williams!
RECONSTRUCTION
AMERICA AFTER THE CIVIL WAR
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5 @ 6:00PM
Experience the aftermath of the Civil War — a bewildering, exhilarating and terrifying time. For African Americans, despite their hard-won freedom, support for their social, economic and political gains did not last.
GREAT PERFORMANCES
ELLIS ISLAND: THE DREAM OF AMERICA
WITH PACIFIC SYMPHONY
FRIDAY, JULY 3 @ 10:00PM
THIRTEEN’s Great Performances and Pacific Symphony, led by music director Carl St.Clair, pay tribute to America’s history with a performance of composer Peter Boyer’s “Ellis Island: The Dream of America,” a Grammy-nominated contemporary classical work celebrating the historic American immigrant experience.
THE STATUE OF LIBERTY
FRIDAY, JULY 3 @ 10:00PM
For more than 100 years, the Statue of Liberty has been a symbol of hope and refuge for generations of immigrants. In this lyrical, compelling and provocative portrait of the statue, Ken Burns explores both the history of America’s premier symbol and the meaning of liberty itself. Featuring rare archival photographs, paintings and drawings, readings from actual diaries, letters and newspapers of the day, the fascinating story of this universally admired monument is told.
THIS OLD HOUSE
WESTERLY | A RANCH OUT WESTERLY
THURSDAY, JULY 2 @ 9:00PM
Kevin O’Connor reviews the progress of the Westerly house. Tom Silva and Jeff Sweenor work on the main staircase at Jeff’s shop and then they bring it to the house to install. At the Idea House, Kevin looks at new clapboard siding technology. Richard Trethewey tours a factory to see how a furnace is built and then watches one being installed at the project house.
NOVA
AUSTRALIA’S FIRST 4 BILLION YEARS
MONSTERS
WEDNESDAY, JULY 1 @ 10:00PM
“Monsters” begins Down Under at the dawn of the Age of Dinosaurs. Host Richard Smith comes face-to-face with the previously unknown reptilian rulers of prehistoric Australia. NOVA resurrects the giants that stalked the Great Southern Land and discovers that some of these animals were among the largest ever to have walked the Earth. Others were some of the most dangerous. In the dry desert heart, scientists unearth an ancient inland ocean full of sea monsters.
SPY IN THE WILD
A NATURE MINISERIES
FRIENDSHIP
WEDNESDAY, JULY 1 @ 6:00PM & 10:00PM
Spy Creatures and their new wild friends rely on each other to look out for predators. A Spy Meerkat babysits meerkat pups while a Spy Cobra pretends to attack the mob. Spy Crocs witness a convenient partnership between real crocodiles and birds.