ON MASTERPIECE
LOVE IN AMSTERDAM
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 @ 9:00PM & 11:30PM
Is cynical Amsterdam inspector Piet Van der Valk’s favorite Vermeer painting the key to two senseless murders and a suspected kidnapping? In Episode 1, “Love in Amsterdam,” art, politics, and passion mix in a case that breaks in Piet’s new assistant and prompts discord with the police chief. Piet’s sidekick, Lucienne, courts death. Meanwhile, a bitter political campaign counts down to a fateful election.
ROMEO AND JULIET
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 @ 10:00PM
Experience a ballet of Shakespeare’s classic from choreographer Kenneth MacMillan performed by dancers from The Royal Ballet set to a score by Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev filmed on atmospheric locations throughout Budapest.
ROMEO AND JULIET
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM
Experience a ballet of Shakespeare’s classic from choreographer Kenneth MacMillan performed by dancers from The Royal Ballet set to a score by Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev filmed on atmospheric locations throughout Budapest.
WESTERLY
SAVE THE FLAGPOLE
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 @ 9:00PM
As the project winds down, the televisions are mounted, and the blinds and curtains get installed. Richard takes a look at the new water heater. Jenn watches the final plants go in and works to install outdoor lighting. The old flagpole comes down for a touch up.
FUBAR
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 @ 7:00PM & 11:30PM
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. (2 hours 30 Min)
HUMAN NATURE
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 @ 9:00PM
With an extraordinary new technology called CRISPR, we can now edit DNA—including human DNA. But how far should we go? Gene-editing promises to eliminate certain genetic disorders like sickle cell disease. But the applications quickly raise ethical questions. Is it wrong to engineer soldiers to feel no pain, or to resurrect an extinct species? (2 Hours)
LIVING ON AUTO-PILOT
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 @ 8:00PM & 12:00AM
See how politicians, social media companies and corporate marketers use big data to hack your autopilot decision making system, and learn how to defend yourself.
FROM THE HOLOCAUST
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 @ 8:00PM & 12:00AM
Harbor from the Holocaust is the story of nearly 20,000 Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II, to the Chinese port city of Shanghai. Explore the extraordinary relationship of these Jews and their adopted city of Shanghai, even through the bitter years of Japanese occupation 1937-1945 and the Chinese civil war that followed.
GROWING UP POOR IN AMERICA
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8 @ 11:00PM
The experience of childhood poverty against the backdrop of a pandemic and a national reckoning with racism. Set in Ohio, the film follows children and their families navigating issues of poverty, homelessness, race and new challenges due to COVID-19.
PORTRAITS AND DREAMS
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 @ 8:00PM & 12:00AM
Portraits and Dreams revisits photographs created by Kentucky schoolchildren in the 1970s and the place where the photos were made. The film is about the students, their work as visionary photographers and the lives they have led since then, as well as the linkage of personal memory to the passage of time. A POV co-production with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private corporation funded by the American people.