AMERICAN MASTERS
I’M JUST ME
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4 @ 11:00PM
Charley Pride: I’m Just Me traces the improbable journey of Charley Pride, from his humble beginnings as a sharecropper’s son on a cotton farm in segregated Sledge, Mississippi to his career as a Negro American League baseball player and his meteoric rise as a trailblazing country music superstar. The new documentary reveals how Pride’s love for music led him from the Delta to a larger, grander world.
AMERICAN MASTERS
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM
Explore the entertainer’s vast talent and journey for identity through the shifting tides of civil rights and racial progress during 20th-century America. Features Billy Crystal, Whoopi Goldberg, and clips from his TV, film and concert performances.
NO LAUGHING MATTER
TUESDAY, MAY 10 @ 9:00PM
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. shows comedians Seth Meyers, Tig Notaro and Sarah Silverman that their family trees are filled with people whose struggles laid the groundwork for their success. Gates also reveals to each one news of an unexpected DNA cousin.
LEE DANIELS
SATURDAY, MARCH 6 @ 10:30PM
Trace Daniels’ path from West Philly to his the red-hot center of Hollywood. Learn how he conquered both the independent and mainstream sides of Hollywood, directing and producing critical darlings like The Butler and Empire.
ON MASTERPIECE
A COBURG QUARTET
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 29 @ 10:00PM
A Georgian ball at the Palace could not come at a worse time as private pictures of the Royal family are made public.
MOVIES FOR GROWNUPS AWARDS
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17 @ 10:00PM
Watch filmmakers and actors experience the Movies for Grownups Awards with AARP The Magazine. The awards were established to celebrate and encourage filmmaking that appeals to movie lovers with a grownup state of mind — and to recognize its artists.
MOVIES FOR GROWNUPS AWARDS
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM
Watch filmmakers and actors experience the Movies for Grownups Awards with AARP The Magazine. The awards were established to celebrate and encourage filmmaking that appeals to movie lovers with a grownup state of mind — and to recognize its artists.
RISE OF THE ROCKETS
SATURDAY, MARCH 7 @ 6:00PM
New technologies are making rockets cheaper and more powerful than ever before. As companies like SpaceX and Virgin Galactic make space more accessible, and NASA returns to crewed spaceflight, a new era of space exploration may be on the horizon.
WILD WAY OF THE VIKINGS
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8 @ 6:00PM & 10:00PM
Experience the natural world through the eyes of the Vikings. From the killer whales of the North Sea to the volcanic mounts of Iceland, see the deep history and cultural respect the Vikings had with the land and sea. Ewan McGregor narrates.
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM
In 1969 off the California coast, a US Navy crane carefully lowered a massive tubular structure into the waters. It was an audacious feat of engineering — a pressurized underwater habitat, designed for an elite group of divers to spend days or even months at a stretch living and working on the ocean floor.Sealab tells the little-known story of the daring program that tested the limits of human endurance and revolutionized undersea exploration.