SWEETGRASS

TUESDAY, JULY 5 @ 8:00PM & 11:00PM

Sweetgrass presents a riveting and poetic portrait of the American West just as one of its traditional ways of life dies out. Shot amidst the grandeur of Montana’s Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness, the film follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into the breathtaking and often dangerous mountains for summer pasture. Magnificently photographed and unsparingly candid, Sweetgrass discovers a world of harsh beauty and arduous labor, where humans still work in rugged intimacy with nature.

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A STAR-SPANGLED PARTY

MONDAY, JULY 4 @ 6:00PM, 9:00PM ,11:00PM & 12:30AM

Americas favorite Independence Day tradition will feature amazing performances topped off by the greatest display of fireworks anywhere. Jimmy Smits hosts Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers, Josh Groban, Matthew Morrison (Glee), Jordin Sparks, Little Richard and the cast of Million Dollar Quartet, Kelli O Hara, and the National Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Maestro Jack Everly.

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POIROT

HALLOWE’EN PARTY

FRIDAY, JULY 8 @ 7:30PM & 12:30AM

“I saw a murder once…I did! I did!” boasts a clumsy, disliked girl at a Halloween party. For this, she is ridiculed and dismissed. But before the party’s end, she is dead, snuffed out in an apple-bobbing tub. Party guest Ariadne Oliver — never again to consume another apple — summons her old friend Hercule Poirot for help and the gallant sleuth is only too happy to oblige.

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What Are Dreams?

Wednesday, June 29 @ 7:00pm & 10:00pm

What are dreams and why do we have them? NOVA joins leading dream researchers as they embark on a variety of neurological and psychological experiments to investigate the world of sleep and dreams. Delving deep into the thoughts and brains of a variety of dreamers, scientists are asking important questions about the purpose of this mysterious realm we escape to at night. Do dreams allow us to get a good night’s sleep? Do they improve memory? Do they allow us to be more creative? Can they solve our problems or even help us survive the hazards of everyday life?

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MY PERESTROIKA

SATURDAY, JULY 2 @ 7:30PM

My Perestroika is an intimate look at the last generation of Soviet children. Five classmates go from living sheltered childhoods to experiencing the hopes of Gorbachev’s reforms and the confusion of the USSR’s dissolution, to searching for their places in today’s Moscow. With candor and humor, the punk rocker, single mother, entrepreneur and married teachers paint a picture of the challenges, dreams and disappointments of those raised behind the Iron Curtain. Through first-person testimony, vérité footage and vintage home movies, this beautifully crafted documentary reveals a Russia rarely seen on film.

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POIROT

THE CLOCKS

FRIDAY, JULY 1 @ 7:30PM & 12:30AM

A lovely young stenographer, Sheila Webb, is greeted at a job not by her client but by an eerie assembly of clocks all frozen at the precise same moment in time and, behind the couch where she sits waiting, a corpse. Horrified, she scrambles screaming into the street, straight into the arms of Naval Lieutenant Colin Race.

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MAHLER: LEGACY

THURSDAY, JUNE 30 @ 7:00PM & 10:00PM

In 1897, after months of intrigue and negotiation, during which Mahler converted to the Roman Catholic faith, he was installed as the Music Director of the Vienna Opera House. This was arguably the most prestigious job in the music world, at the end of the 19th century.
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BLACKBEARD’S LOST SHIP

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22 @ 6:00PM

Edward Teach, alias Blackbeard, was the most notorious pirate of his day. At the height of his rein, he commanded a fleet of four ships and a crew of 400 men. They were ruthless seafaring raiders who terrorizing vessels in American waters. In 1718, Blackbeard even blockaded the city of Charleston, crippling its economy. Eventually he was caught and beheaded by a posse from the Royal Navy. Now, 300 years later, a marine archaeology team believe they have found his sunken flagship, Queen Anne’s Revenge, off the North Carolina coast. The remains of the shipwreck are helping solve the most enduring mystery surrounding the infamous pirate captain – did he accidentally run his ship aground, or was it a deliberate plot to betray his crew and cheat them out of their share of the plunder?

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