Category Archives: Program Highlights

GARRY WINOGRAND

AMERICAN MASTERS

FRIDAY, APRIL 19 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM

Discover the life and work of Garry Winogrand, the epic storyteller in pictures who harnessed the serendipity of the streets to capture the American 1960s-70s. His “snapshot aesthetic” is now the universal language of contemporary image making.


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UNFORGOTTEN

ON MASTERPIECE

THURSDAY, APRIL 18 @ 7:00PM

The search for what happened to Hayley begins as the team travel down to Middenham to meet her family.

Season 3 sees Nicola Walker (Last Tango In Halifax) and Sanjeev Bhaskar (Goodness Gracious Me) reprise their roles as DCI Cassie Stuart and DI Sunil “Sunny” Khan as they investigate another emotionally-charged cold case.


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RECONSTRUCTION

AMERICA AFTER THE CIVIL WAR

EPISODE 2

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12 @ 6:00PM

Post-Civil War America was a new world. For African Americans living in the former Confederacy, Reconstruction was what historian W. E. B. Du Bois once described as their “brief moment in the sun.” But support for the social, economic, and political gains they achieved didn’t last long. A controversial presidential election in 1876 deals Reconstruction a grievous blow.  (2 HOURS)


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FRONTLINE

MARCOS DOESN’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE

MONDAY, APRIL 15 @ 10:00PM

Elizabeth Perez, a decorated U.S. Marine veteran living in Cleveland, fights to reunite her family after her undocumented husband, Marcos, is deported. Acclaimed filmmaker David Sutherland examines the U.S. immigration system through the lives of two unforgettable protagonists whose lives reveal the human cost of deportation.


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LES MISERABLES

ON MASTERPIECE

EPISODE 1

SUNDAY, APRIL 14 @ 10:00PM

Victor Hugo’s masterpiece Les Misérables comes to television in a six-part adaptation by multi award-winning screenwriter Andrew Davies. Dominic West stars as fugitive Jean Valjean, with David Oyelowo as his pursuer Inspector Javert and Lily Collins as the luckless single mother Fantine. Love, death, and the struggle for social justice in early 19th-century France feature in this beautifully faithful retelling of one of the world’s most beloved stories.


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JOSEPH PULITZER

AMERICAN MASTERS

FRIDAY, APRIL 12 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM

Discover the man behind the award. An immigrant who became a media mogul with an outspoken, cantankerous voice, who created two bestselling newspapers, Joseph Pulitzer championed what he regarded as the sacred role of a free press in a democracy. Directed by Oren Rudavsky (90 Minutes).


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