JFK

TUESDAY, AUGUST 9 @ 10:00PM

Forever enshrined in myth by an assassin’s bullet, Kennedy’s presidency long defied objective appraisal. Recent assessments have revealed an administration long on promise and vigor, and somewhat lacking in tangible accomplishment. His proposals for a tax cut and civil rights legislation, however, promised significant gains in the months before his assassination. While maturation, as evidenced in the handling of the Cuban missile crisis, was apparent, the potential legacy of the New Frontier will forever be left to speculation.

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20 @ 11:00PM

Comets have fascinated, even terrified us for thousands of years. For scientists though, comets are a great opportunity. This year, 2013, a particularly massive chunk of ice and rock is coming our way, an object that will fascinate billions and should create the space show of the century. Right now Comet ISON, somewhere between one and 10 kilometers in diameter, is just beyond the orbit of Jupiter. As it races past us toward the sun it should develop a tail that will light up the skies brighter than a full moon.

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AT THE EDGE OF SPACE

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18  @ 7:00PM & 12:00AM

Between the blue sky above and the infinite blackness beyond lies a frontier that scientists have only just begun to investigate. In “At the Edge of Space,” NOVA takes viewers on a spectacular exploration of the Earth-space boundary that’s home to some of nature’s most puzzling and alluring phenomena: the shimmering aurora, streaking meteors, and fleeting flashes that shoot upwards from thunderclouds, known as sprites.

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MANY RIVERS TO CROSS

RISE! (1940-1968)

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19 @ 9:00PM

Rise! examines the long road to civil rights, when the deep contradictions in American society finally became unsustainable. Beginning in World War II, African Americans who helped fight fascism abroad came home to face the same old racial violence. But this time, mass media — from print to radio and TV — broadcast that injustice to the world, planting seeds of resistance. And the success of black entrepreneurs and entertainers fueled African-American hopes and dreams.

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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 @ 10:00AM

In 1863 Abraham Lincoln proved himself a master of a new frontier—not on the battlefields of the Civil War, but in his high-tech command center: the War Department Telegraph Office, America’s first Situation Room. The Internet of the 19th century, the telegraph, gave Lincoln new powers to reshape leadership and wield personal control across distant battlefields.

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INDIAN RELAY

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6 @ 11:00pm

Indian Relay documents an unheralded aspect of modern-day Native American life and what it takes to win one of the more exciting forms of horse racing. From the bitter cold of winter to the heat of summer, the film follows teams from three different tribes as they compete across a grueling season.

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SECRETS OF SCOTLAND YARD

THURSDAY, JUNE 9 @ 10:00PM

Secrets of Scotland Yard breaks through the façade of the most famous police headquarters in the world: the very name Scotland Yard is synonymous with all that’s best in the detection of crime.

Scotland Yard is the headquarters of one of the oldest police forces in the world – London’s Metropolitan Police Service – known to Londoners as ‘the Met’. Today, 33,000 Scotland Yard police officers safeguard one of the largest cities in Europe, patrolling nearly ten thousand miles of street, more than 200 miles of waterway, six hundred square miles of airspace, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

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THE PARADISE

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 17 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM

The Paradise Concludes

A big day approaches for Moray, and The Paradise’s staff anticipates the spectacular event with excitement and for some, dread. Trouble brews, suspicion grows, and the missing barber resurfaces. Katherine makes her move, and moral dilemmas paralyze a beholden Moray and a selfless Denise, for whom everything is at stake.

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WITH GWEN IFILL

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15 @ 9:00PM

Yesterday, President Obama unveiled a plan to fix a provision of the Affordable Care Act that will allow policy holders whose current insurance plans were canceled to get one-year extensions even if they don’t conform to all the new health care laws. He also admitted that the administration “fumbled” last month’s roll-out of the healthcare exchange program. On Wednesday the administration announced that only 106,000 people enrolled on the state and federal insurance exchanges since they opened on October 1.

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