VISIONARIES
THURSDAY, AUGUST 22 @ 11:00PM
VISIONARIES documents the ways in which artists and influencers inspire new generations to envision the limitless possibilities of craft. Featuring textile designer and founder of LongHouse Reserve Jack Lenor Larsen, curator Helen Molesworth and Black Mountain College, weaver Kay Sekimachi, collector Forrest L. Merrill, and book artist Felicia Rice.
CALIFORNIA
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM
CALIFORNIA explores the diverse craft heritage, traditions and innovations in the Golden State. Featuring Pomo basket weaver Corine Pearce, silversmith Randy Stromsoe, the Arts and Crafts architecture of Greene & Greene, stained glass artists at Judson Studios, cabinet makers James Ipekjian and Jack Ipekjian, and textile artist Deborah Cross.
A HEARTLAND HOLIDAY FEAST
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM
Watch the preview for Lidia Celebrates America: A Heartland Holiday Feast. In her latest documentary special A Heartland Holiday Feast, Lidia Bastianich takes viewers on a cross-country journey. She explores how Americans representing diverse heritages are both preserving their own culinary traditions and transforming local cuisine.
GREAT ALASKAN EARTHQUAKE
FRIDAY, MAY 2 @ 5:00PM
Join Ann Curry as two Alaskans try to track down childhood friends who also survived the state’s massive 1964 earthquake. A woman wants to thank a friend and her mom for shielding her from harm, and a man searches for a former Little League teammate.
WITH THE MORMON TABERNACLE CHOIR
FEATURING SUTTON FOSTER
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25 @ 11:30PM
Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, the annual holiday musical spectacular, welcomes Tony Award winning actress and TV star, Sutton Foster, and the Emmy-nominated stage and screen star Hugh Bonneville. This one-hour holiday spectacular airs Tuesday, December 25, 2018, on MCPTV.
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LANDMARKS LIVE IN CONCERT
A GREAT PERFORMANCES SPECIAL
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14 @ 10:00PM
Lush and subtle, “Ingénue” allowed lang and co-writer-producer Ben Mink to explore jazz, cabaret and Tin Pan Alley songwriting, resulting in some of her greatest compositions. This Landmarks Live in Concert special features an uninterrupted performance of the complete “Ingénue” album, including lang’s GRAMMY® Award-winning hit “Constant Craving,” “Save Me,” “Wash Me Clean,” “Season of Hollow Soul” and “Miss Chatelaine.” The concert also includes the beloved Leonard Cohen song “Hallelujah” and a previously unreleased song by lang and Joe Pisapia, “Sleeping Alone.” The special also features an interview with lang by James Reed, an entertainment editor at Los Angeles Times.
ULTIMATE CRUISE SHIP
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7 @ 11:00PM
Weighing 54,000 gross tons and stretching over two football fields, the Seven Seas Explorer is no ordinary boat. Join pioneering shipbuilders as they endeavor to build the ultimate cruise ship. It will be decked with the finest gold, marble, and crystal and designed to offer guests the roomiest accommodations of any commercial cruise ship. But engineering opulence is no easy feat.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11 @ 10:00 PM
“Letters from Baghdad” is the story of a true original, Gertrude Bell, sometimes called the female “Lawrence of Arabia.” More influential and famous in her day than her colleague Lawrence, Bell was an explorer, spy, archaeologist and diplomat who helped shape the Middle East after World War I and established the Iraq Museum, infamously ransacked in 2003. ‘
A CONCERT FOR PEACE AND UNITY
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11 @ 6:00PM & 10:30PM
This concert honors the Tree of Life Synagogue victims. This evening of remembrance and reverence aims to provide an opportunity for the Pittsburgh community to find comfort, strength and solace through music, hope and unity. Renowned Israeli-American violinist Itzhak Perlman joins Music Director Manfred Honeck, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, PSO Principal Clarinetist Michael Rusinek and the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh for this performance.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 10 @ 11:00PM
At a time when religious hatreds dominate the world’s headlines, this film, sweeping in global reach and yet intensely intimate, explores faith as primary human experience: how it is used to navigate the milestones and crises of private life. SACRED was shot by 40 filmmaking teams around the world, and directed by Academy Award winner and four-time nominee Thomas Lennon.