ON MASTERPIECE
ONLY IN AMSTERDAM
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM
In Episode 2, “Only in Amsterdam,” a Muslim worker at an addiction clinic is found dead. Evidence connects her to a library where she researched religious erotica—an interest she shared with a Catholic nun. Meanwhile, Piet helps Lucienne deal with a romantic break-up.
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HAYDN: THE KING OF STRINGS
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM
Explore the work of famed composer Joseph Haydn’s career with host Scott Yoo and featured guest artists as he discovers how Haydn borrowed folk music from Scotland, Hungary and Austria to create his famous “Emperor Quartet.”
IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 @ 11:00PM
See the creative processes of artists John Akomfrah, Phyllida Barlow, Anish Kapoor, and Christian Marclay in “London”—the first of three new episodes from Season 10 of the Peabody Award-winning “Art in the Twenty-First Century” series.
WESTERLY | SEASIDE TRANSFORMATION
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 @ 9:00PM
The old ranch is transformed into a Dutch Colonial thanks to Jeff Sweenor’s team. Kevin O’Connor and Tom Silva take the tour with the homeowners and Jeff. Norm Abram presents the pine coffee table he made with local reclaimed wood. Outside, Jenn Nawada sees the last of the hydroseeding and gives Tom the garden tour. Everyone meets at the refurbished flagpole to raise the flags.
THE GHOST FRONT
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM
THE WAR, a seven-part documentary series directed and produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, explores the history and horror of the Second World War from an American perspective by following the fortunes of so-called ordinary men and women who become caught up in one of the greatest cataclysms in human history.
ISLANDS OF WONDER
MADAGASCAR
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 @ 9:00PM
Journey to three of the most exotic, mysterious and remote islands on the planet: Madagascar, Borneo and Hawaii. Isolated from the rest of the world, they harbor remarkable wildlife and pioneering human communities found nowhere else on Earth.
SECRET MIND OF SLIME
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM
Who says you need brains to be smart? Extremely primitive life-forms called slime molds can navigate mazes, choose between foods, and create efficient networks—no brain required. New research on these organisms, which are neither plant nor animal, could help reveal the fundamental rules underlying all decision making.
BUILDING THE AMERICAN DREAM
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7 @ 11:00PM
Across Texas an unstoppable construction boom drives urban sprawl and luxury high-rises. Its dirty secret: abuse of immigrant labor. The film captures a turning point as a movement forms to fight widespread construction industry injustices. A story of courage, resilience and community, the film reveals shocking truths about the hardworking immigrants who build the American Dream.
LOVE CHILD
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 @ 11:00PM
With adultery being punishable by death in Iran, a young couple make the fateful decision to flee the country with their son Mani. Love Child is an intimate love story about an illicit family on a journey to seek asylum in Turkey and start a new life.
LUCY WORSLEY’S
ROYAL PALACE SECRETS
THURSDAY, MARCH 27 @ 6:00PM
Join the popular royal historian for an exclusive tour of London’s most extraordinary palaces. From the forbidding Tower of London to glorious Hampton Court to treasure-filled Kensington Palace, Lucy takes viewers behind the velvet ropes into each building’s most secret places.