DECODING COVID-19
SUNDAY, MAY 17 @ 8:00PM
The coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has upended life as we know it in a matter of months. But at the same time, an unprecedented global effort to understand and contain the virus—and find a treatment for the disease it causes—is underway. Join doctors on the front lines of the fight against COVID-19 as they strategize to stop the spread, and meet the researchers racing to develop treatments and vaccines.
LEONARD BERNSTEIN MASS
FRIDAY, MAY 15 @ 10:00PM
Enjoy Ravinia Festival’s production of Leonard Bernstein’s musical starring Tony Award-winning baritone Paulo Szot and featuring the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Baltimore Symphony Orchestra artistic director Marin Alsop conducts. (2 Hours)
LEONARD BERNSTEIN MASS
FRIDAY, MAY 15 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM
Enjoy Ravinia Festival’s production of Leonard Bernstein’s musical starring Tony Award-winning baritone Paulo Szot and featuring the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Baltimore Symphony Orchestra artistic director Marin Alsop conducts. (2 Hours)
THURSDAY, MAY 14 @ 11:00PM
The debate team prepares to compete. Some students make great strides academically, only to discover that the college program keeps raising the bar. Being sent to the solitary housing unit puts an education in serious jeopardy. Jules returns home.
WITH STEVE BACKSHALL
GREENLAND – ICE MOUNTAIN
WEDNESDAY, MAY 13 @ 11:00PM
Follow Steve Backshall as he tries to summit a remote and unclimbed mountain in Greenland’s Stauning Alps. After facing quicksand, a river and a glacier to reach basecamp, the climb gives Steve a unique insight into a fast-changing environment.
A NATURE MINISERIES
THE ISLANDS
SATURDAY, MAY 16 @ 7:00PM & 12:00AM
Explore the islands of the South Pacific with creatures like the spy koala, who captures breeding behavior in Australia, or the spy crab, who joins an army of red crabs on their march to the sea to deposit their eggs.
GOOD AMERICANS
GENERATION RISING
BREAKING THROUGH
TUESDAY, MAY 12 @ 9:00PM
Asian Americans is a five-hour film series that will chronicle the contributions, and challenges of Asian Americans, the fastest-growing ethnic group in America. Personal histories and new academic research will cast a fresh lens on U.S. history and the role Asian Americans have played in it. (3 HOURS)
REWIND
MONDAY, MAY 11 @ 11:00PM
Made up of home video footage that reveals a long-kept secret, Sasha Joseph Neulinger’s Rewind is a brave and wrenching look at his childhood and his journey to reconcile his past. By probing the gap between image and reality, the film depicts both how little and how much a camera can capture.
GOOD AMERICANS
GENERATION RISING
BREAKING THROUGH
TUESDAY, MAY 12 @ 6:00PM & 10:00PM
Asian Americans is a five-hour film series that will chronicle the contributions, and challenges of Asian Americans, the fastest-growing ethnic group in America. Personal histories and new academic research will cast a fresh lens on U.S. history and the role Asian Americans have played in it. (3 HOURS)
ON MASTERPIECE
EPISODE 6
SUNDAY, MAY 10 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM
Paris falls to the Nazis, and Webster and Albert’s lives are turned upside down.