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FINDING YOUR ROOTS

ANCHORMEN

TUESDAY, APRIL 15 @ 9:00PM

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. introduces trail-blazing journalists Jim Acosta and Van Jones to the ancestors who blazed a trail for them, meeting runaway slaves and immigrant settlers who took enormous chances so that their descendants might thrive.


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NOVA

BALTIMORE BRIDGE COLLAPSE

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM

Follow the investigation into the deadly container ship collision that closed the Port of Baltimore.

On March 26, 2024, the world collectively gasped as a massive container ship, the Dali, lost control and plowed into the landmark Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore. The busy four-lane bridge suffered a catastrophic collapse and crashed into the Patapsco River. How did a modern ship lose all power and propulsion? And why did the bridge fail so catastrophically?


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INDEPENDENT LENS

SKIN OF GLASS

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17 @ 8:00PM

A journey to reckon with Brazil’s harsh inequality begins when filmmaker Denise Zmekhol discovers her father’s architectural masterpiece in Sao Paulo – a 24-story tall modernist icon known as “Pele de Vidro” (Skin of Glass) – is inhabited by hundreds of unhoused people. But after getting to know these occupants, what started as a personal quest becomes something much bigger.


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THE CONGRESS

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14 @ 8:00PM & 12:00AM

The United States Congress has been one of the country’s most important and least understood institutions. Using historical photographs and newsreels, evocative live footage and interviews, Ken Burns chronicles the events that have shaped congress and, in turn, our country.


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ELTON JOHN

ELTON JOHN & BERNIE TAUPIN

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GERSHWIN PRIZE

FRIDAY, MAY 3 @ 11:00PM

Artists from across the musical spectrum will join the national library and U.S. leaders to honor the great songwriting duo of Elton John and Bernie Taupin, the 2024 recipients of the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. The lineup includes Joni Mitchell, Garth Brooks, Brandi Carlile, Annie Lennox, Metallica, Maren Morris, Billy Porter, Charlie Puth and Jacob Lusk of Gabriels.


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DANTE

INFERNO TO PARADISE

PART TWO: RESURRECTION

TUESDAY, MARCH 19 @ 6:00PM & 10:00PM

Explore Dante’s experience in exile, and his completion of the last two parts of the “Comedy,” shortly before his death in Ravennain 1321. Interweaving soaring scenes drawn from Purgatory and Paradise, the film goes on to explore the afterlife and literary and cultural fate of Dante’s masterpiece from the time of his death down to today. (2 Hours)


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