SEASON 3, EPISODE 7
SUNDAY, AUGUST 4 @ 11:00PM
Jocelyn’s adventure upriver tests friendships and leaves lives hanging in the balance. Maria and Temperance work together to manipulate Yeardley. When the Sharrows become embroiled with a notorious Pamunkey warrior, their actions prove disastrous.
SEASON 4 ON MASTERPIECE
EPISODE 4
THURSDAY, AUGUST 8 @ 7:00PM
When Will asks for Geordie’s help with a family matter, Geordie is surprised to discover where Will really grew up: a house filled with secrets and lies.
JUPITER
WEDNESDAY, JULY 19 @ 8:00PM & 12:00AM
Jupiter’s massive gravitational force made it a wrecking ball when it barreled through the early solar system. But it also shaped life on Earth, delivering comets laden with water—and perhaps even the fateful asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs.
AMERICAN MASTERS
FRIDAY, AUGUST 2 @ 10:00PM
Explore the remarkable life and legacy of late feminist author Ursula K. Le Guin whose groundbreaking work, including “The Left Hand of Darkness,” transformed American literature by bringing science fiction into the literary mainstream.
FINDING THE CENTER
SATURDAY, AUGUST 3 @ 11:00PM
Episode two of this landmark series delves further into our ancient understanding of the skies above. After exploring the mysterious creatures living at the edge of the world, we follow the story of our earth as it takes shape and a place in the cosmos in the minds of great astronomers and scientists including Ptolemy, Copernicus and Galileo.
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
MAGNIFICENT DESOLATION
TUESDAY, JULY 30 @ 6:00PM & 11:00PM
Magnificent Desolation, which covers 1969-1970, takes Americans to the moon and back. Dreams of space dramatically intersect with dreams of democracy on American soil, raising questions of national priorities and national identity. The final episode also considers what happens to scientific and engineering programs — and to a country — after ambitious national goals have been achieved.
INVENTING TOMORROW
MONDAY, JULY 29 @ 11:00PM
Passionate teenage innovators from around the globe create cutting-edge solutions to confront the world’s environmental threats—found right in their own backyards—while navigating the doubts and insecurities that mark adolescence. These inspiring teens prepare their projects for the largest convening of high school scientists in the world: the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair.
SEASON 4, EPISODE 3
ON MASTERPIECE
THURSDAY, AUGUST 1 @ 7:00PM
When a child from an isolated farming family is accused of murder, Will is the only one able to reach him, and it brings out unexpected sides of the young vicar, shocking Geordie.
INNER WORLDS
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8 @ 10:00PM
The rocky planets—Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars—were born of similar material around the same time. Yet only one of them supports life. Were Earth’s neighbors always so extreme? And is there somewhere else in the solar system life might flourish?
GODS AND MONSTERS
SUNDAY, JULY 28 @ 6:00PM
In this episode we explore the origins of our relationship with the skies. From our earliest ancestors we discover how we used the skies to navigate and tell time, and how we gave religious significance to the things we saw in it. We finish on the cusp of a revolution that gave birth to modern science.