Category Archives: Program Highlights

SOMEWHERE SOUTH

HOW DO YOU ‘CUE?

FRIDAY, MAY 1 @ 10:00PM

Every Southerner has a particular way they cook and eat barbecue. While Vivian knows North Carolina’s tradition of whole hog barbecue, she travels to Florida for smoked mullet and Texas for barbecue with Japanese and Mexican twists.


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H2O

THE MOLECULE THAT MADE US

CIVILIZATIONS

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM

‘Civilizations’ turns our ‘water lens’ on human history. Starting in Ancient Egypt, it charts the critical role water plays in history, and around the world we see the birth of civilizations on the banks of the great rivers: Nile, Tigris and Euphrates, Indus and Yellow. We end by asking if we can guarantee water supplies of the future?


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INSIDE THE VATICAN

TUESDAY, APRIL 28 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM

Filmed over the course of one year, Inside the Vatican gains unprecedented access to one of the most important places in the Christian world. Nestled in the city of Rome, the Vatican is the head-quarters of the Catholic Church and an independent city-state.


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SECRETS OF THE DEAD

BUILDING NOTRE DAME

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26 @ 10:00PM

Follow an investigation into the centuries-long construction of Notre Dame de Paris, uncovering the vast architectural, technical and human challenges experienced throughout the turbulent history of one of the world’s most celebrated buildings.


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INDEPENDENT LENS

JIM ALLISON: BREAKTHROUGH

MONDAY, APRIL 11 @ 11:00PM

The story of one warmhearted, stubborn man’s visionary quest to find a cure for cancer, Jim Allison: Breakthrough is an homage to an unconventional superhero — a pioneering, harmonica-playing scientist who triumphed over a doubtful medical establishment to save innumerable lives around the world. In 2018, Jim Allison won the Nobel Prize for discovering the immune system’s role in defeating cancer, but his long journey to get there was filled with barriers and criticism.


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SOMEWHERE SOUTH

IT’S A GREENS THING

FRIDAY, JULY 12 @ 8:00PM & 12:00AM

At the Lumbee tribe’s annual homecoming, Vivian samples their famous collard sandwich and learns the roots of Southern hospitality. On a trip to Clarkston, Ga., Vivian meets a group of refugee farmers who grows greens that remind them of home.


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