PRIMATES
FAMILY MATTERS
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7 @ 9:00PM
Family is everything for primates. They have the most complex social lives of any animal group on the planet. Meet devoted monkeys’ uncles, playmate apes and tender troops.
Category Archives: Program Highlights
RISE OF THE NAZIS
POLITICS
EPISODE 1
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10 @ 10:00PM
Learn the chain of events that propels Hitler from the fringes to the heart of the government. After leading a failed coup in 1923, he turns the Nazis into a legitimate, mainstream party and plots to overthrow Germany’s political elite.
FINDING YOUR ROOTS
WAR STORIES
THURSDAY, AUGUST 31 @ 11:00PM
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the roots of actor Julianne Moore, comedian Bill Hader, and painter Kehinde Wiley, revealing how their ancestors’ military service left an indelible mark both on their families and on their country.
POV SHORTS
LEGACY
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9 @ 11:00PM
Legacy: Three stories looking at time encapsulated. The Love Bugs: Over 60 years, Lois and Charlie O’Brien, renowned entomologists, traveled to more than 67 countries, amassing the world’s largest private collection of insects. Now is the Time: When internationally renowned Haida carver Robert Davidson was only 22 years old, he carved the first new totem pole on British Columbia’s Haida Gwaii in almost a century.
ROADKILL
ON MASTERPIECE
EPISODE 2
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM
Promoted to justice minister, Peter deals with a prison riot, an angry daughter, and alarming contacts from a stranger. Meanwhile, an unknown threat looms abroad.
GREAT PERFORMANCES
ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6 @ 10:00PM
Revel in this 1960s-era comedy featuring a Tony-winning performance by James Corden. Adapted from a 1743 farce, Corden plays a musician-turned-bodyguard trying to keep his two mobster clients apart, a tricky predicament resulting in comic mayhem. (2 Hrs 30 Min)
GREAT PERFORMANCES
ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6 @ 7:00PM & 11:30PM
Revel in this 1960s-era comedy featuring a Tony-winning performance by James Corden. Adapted from a 1743 farce, Corden plays a musician-turned-bodyguard trying to keep his two mobster clients apart, a tricky predicament resulting in comic mayhem. (2 Hrs 30 Min)
SECRETS OF THE DEAD
ABANDONING THE TITANIC
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8 @ 11:00PM
Join a team of investigators as they search for the identity of the captain of a “mystery ship” that turned away from the “unsinkable” Titanic in its darkest hour, abandoning thousands of lives to the icy waters and their deaths.
NOVA
COLOSSEUM
ROMAN DEATH TRAP
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8 @ 8:00PM
Archaeologists and engineers are teaming up to recreate a 25-foot lifting machine and trap door system capable of releasing a wolf into the Colosseum’s arena for the first time in 1,500 years. Do they have what it takes to replicate the innovation and ingenuity of the Romans?
NATURE
PRIMATES
SECRETS OF SURVIVAL
WEDNESDAY, JULY 31 @ 9:00PM
Monkey see, monkey do. From baboons facing down leopards, to lemurs exploiting a jungle pharmacy or rhesus macaques charming their way to an easy life, discover the survival strategies used by primates, often in the most unexpected places.