PUMAS
LEGENDS OF THE ICE MOUNTAINS
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3 @ 6:00PM & 10:00PM
Travel to the ice mountains of Chile to discover the secrets of the puma, the area’s biggest and most elusive predator. Discover how this mountain lion survives and follow the dramatic fate of a puma mother and her cubs. Narrated by Uma Thurman.
THE MISSING LYNX
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3 @ 8:00PM & 12:00AM
Across Iberia, food chains and ecosystems are being restored allowing endangered animals, including the rarest cat in the world, to flourish.
CHINA’S COVID SECRETS
TUESDAY, JANUARY 25 @ 8:00PM & 12:30AM
The untold story of the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic and how China responded. Chinese scientists and doctors, international disease experts and health officials reveal missed opportunities to suppress the outbreak and lessons for the world.
NO IRISH NEED APPLY
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2 @ 9:00PM
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the roots of actor Jane Lynch and comedian Jim Gaffigan, revealing the Irish American experience through their families.
9 TO 5: THE STORY OF A MOVEMENT
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1 @ 8:00PM & 11:30PM
When Dolly Parton sang “9 to 5,” she was doing more than just shining a light on the fate of American working women. Parton was singing the true story of a movement that started with 9to5, a group of Boston secretaries in the early 1970s. Their goals were simple—better pay, more advancement opportunities and an end to sexual harassment—but their unconventional approach attracted the press and shamed their bosses into change. Featuring interviews with 9to5’s founders, as well as actor and activist Jane Fonda, 9to5: The Story of a Movement is the previously untold story of the fight that inspired a hit and changed the American workplace. (90 Minutes)
ON MASTERPIECE
THURSDAY, JUNE 2 @ 7:00PM
Follow the hardships and resilience of plantation slave July (Tamara Lawrance) in the last days of slavery in 19th-century Jamaica. Based on the novel by Andrea Levy.
ON MASTERPIECE
EPISODE 4, A TRICKI CASE
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23 @ 11:00PM
While Tristan gives Tricki-Woo the spa treatment, James deals with Helen’s champion bull. Siegfried makes a decision about Tristan.
MUSICALS AND THE MOVIES
FRIDAY, JANUARY 7 @ 11:00PM
Since the first jazz concert in 1939, the genre has been a hallmark at the Hollywood Bowl. From then on, many music greats have graced its stage: Frank Sinatra, Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald, Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis among them. See what makes jazz nights at the Hollywood Bowl such an experience as you hear from the LA Phil’s Creative Chair for Jazz, Herbie Hancock.
THE TRUE WELCOME (1929-1935)
THURSDAY, JANUARY 27 @ 10:00PM
Amid the Depression, the Lindy Hop begins to catch on at dance halls. The reminiscences of two of Harlem’s great dancers, Frankie Manning and Norma Miller, inform the episode. As swing dancing catches on, a new kind of big band jazz begins to emerge.
Acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns tells the story of jazz – the quintessential American art form. The 10-part series follows the growth and development of jazz music from its beginnings to the present.
FORGOTTEN GENIUS
SATURDAY, JANUARY 30 @ 9:00PM
NOVA presents the remarkable life story of Percy Julian — not only one of the great African-American scientists of the 20th century, but an industrialist, self-made millionaire, humanitarian and civil rights pioneer.