LOOK INTO YOUR FUTURE
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24 @ 8:00PM & 12:00AM
Follow four millennials and their parents as they travel through time wearing an MIT-produced “aging empathy suit” and working with professional make-up artists to navigate the realizations, conversations and mindset required to age successfully.
DEATH IS OUR BUSINESS
LOVE, LIFE & THE VIRUS
TUESDAY, MARCH 23 @ 11:00PM
A co-production between FRONTLINE, Firelight Media and WORLD Channel, Death Is Our Business examines in intimate and moving detail how Black funeral homes in New Orleans have had to adapt to the devastating impact of COVID-19 in their community. While revealing the racial disparities of the virus’ toll, award-winning filmmaker Jacqueline Olive shines a light on how the coronavirus has rocked the Black community’s cherished cultural practices in New Orleans — a city that is no stranger to loss and grief.
FLANNERY
TUESDAY, MARCH 23 @ 6:00PM & 10:00PM
Explore the life of Flannery O’Connor whose provocative fiction was unlike anything published before. Featuring never-before-seen archival footage, newly discovered journals and interviews with Mary Karr, Tommy Lee Jones, Hilton Als and more.
CODED BIAS
MONDAY, MARCH 22 @ 8:00PM
When MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini discovers most facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces or women with accuracy, she joins the fight to expose the threats to civil liberties posed by an increasingly data-driven, automated world. (90 Minutes)
AT THE MET
RENEE FLEMING IN CONCERT
FRIDAY, MARCH 19 @ 7:00PM
Experience the beloved American soprano perform arias by Puccini and Massenet to selections by Handel and Korngold from the intimate music salon of Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C.
TOMMY’S IN THE KITCHEN
THURSDAY, MARCH 18 @ 9:00PM
Much work has to be done in the kitchen before the project wraps. Kevin O’Connor and Tom Silva tackle the last stretch of molding. The old outhouse-turned-pantry gets a secret door that matches the kitchen cabinets. The countertops, backsplash and tiles are installed. A custom made wood mantel goes around the new gas fireplace.
OUR GAME
THURSDAY, MARCH 18 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM
In New York City, in the 1840s, people need a diversion from the “railroad pace” at which they work and live. They find it in a game of questionable origins. Inning One, Our Game, looks at the origins of baseball in the 1840s and takes the story up to 1900. Burns refutes the myth that Abner Doubleday invented baseball in Cooperstown and traces its roots instead to the earliest days of the nation.
MY COUNTRY NO MORE
MONDAY, MARCH 15 @ 11:00PM
Between 2011 and 2016, oil drilling in rural North Dakota reached its peak, setting off a modern-day gold rush in the quiet, tight-knit farm town of Trenton, North Dakota, population less than 1,000. With billions of dollars to be gained in an industry-friendly state with a “reasonable regulation” climate, small towns like Trenton became overwhelmed by an influx of workers, and countless acres of farmland were repurposed for industrial development.
COLD WEATHER LANDSCAPE
THURSDAY, MARCH 11 @ 9:00PM
Kevin O’Connor finds Jenn Nawada and her landscape crew transplanting a few trees from the current yard to the Seaside Victorian Cottage. In the kitchen, Tom Silva works with Riley Partridge to install a unique range hood. Back outside, the sod has arrived from a local farm. The crew begins to unroll it. Tom helps Riley install a hatch door in the back of the house to access the basement.
A MASTERPIECE BY MIDNIGHT (1961-PRESENT)
THURSDAY, MARCH 11 @ 10PM
In the 1960s, jazz becomes divided into “schools”—Dixieland, swing, bop, hard bop, cool, modal, free, avant-garde. The question of what is jazz and what isn’t rages, dividing audiences, dividing musicians, dividing generations.