WHAT IS ART (GOOD FOR)?
TUESDAY, JULY 3 @ 6:00PM & 10:00PM
Survey the history of art, from antiquity to the present, on a global scale. Programs reveal the role art and creative imagination have played in forging humanity, and introduce viewers to works of beauty, ingenuity and illumination across cultures.
BRIMSTONE & GLORY
MONDAY, JULY 2 @ 8:00PM
The National Pyrotechnic Festival in Tultepec, Mexico, is a site of festivity unlike any other in the world. Conflagrant revelry engulfs the town for ten days. For the three-quarters of Tultepec residents that work in pyrotechnics, the celebration anchors their way of life. Plunging headlong into the fire, Brimstone & Glory honors the spirit of Tultepec and celebrates celebration itself.
ON MASTERPIECE
SUNDAY, JULY 1 @ 10:00PM
Hollywood glamour comes to Oxford as a horror movie begins filming in the city. The film’s star believes an Egyptian curse is to blame for two poisonings. Morse and Thursday uncover long-kept secrets and a plot to expose the truth of a hero’s past.
ON MASTERPIECE
SUNDAY, JULY 1 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM
Hollywood glamour comes to Oxford as a horror movie begins filming in the city. The film’s star believes an Egyptian curse is to blame for two poisonings. Morse and Thursday uncover long-kept secrets and a plot to expose the truth of a hero’s past.
DANAI GURIRA
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8 @ 11:30PM
See how Tony Award-nominated writer Gurira made the leap from storyteller to Hollywood superstar. The Zimbabwe native yearned to bring African faces and voices to Broadway through her plays, but ended up starring in the mega-hit “Black Panther.”
ELLIS ISLAND
THE DREAM OF AMERICA WITH PACIFIC SYMPHONY
FRIDAY, JUNE 29 @ 8:00PM & 12:00AM
THIRTEEN’s Great Performances and Pacific Symphony, led by music director Carl St.Clair, pay tribute to America’s history with a performance of composer Peter Boyer’s “Ellis Island: The Dream of America,” a Grammy-nominated contemporary classical work celebrating the historic American immigrant experience.
WILD AT HEART
SECRETIVE CREATURES
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27 @ 9:00PM
Our pets may seem familiar but they exist alongside us in a secret world of wild behavior and natural abilities that we hardly recognize. This two-part series explores this parallel existence with all the techniques that have been perfected in past “spy” shows, including HD spy cameras, night vision cameras, drones, miniature on-board cameras and digital high-speed cameras.
RISE OF THE SUPERSTORMS
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 @ 11:00PM
During the 2017 hurricane season, the US receives a record three Category 4 hurricane landfalls with Harvey, Irma, and Maria. Harvey, with its record-breaking rainfall and flooding, is the second-most costly storm in US history, with an estimated $125 billion of damage done. Irma broke records with prolonged intensity, causing communities to rethink just how vulnerable we are to hurricanes, due to sea level rise.
SINGING WITH ANGRY BIRD
MONDAY, JUNE 25 @ 11:00PM
Jae-Chang Kim runs a children’s choir in Pune, India. Although his quick temper earned him the nickname “Angry Bird,” he has made significant changes in the lives of the choir children. But skeptical of the practical value of music education, their parents are reluctant to let them sing. In order to convince them, Angry Bird decides to train the parents with their children for a joint concert, showing them the power of music in bringing families closer together.
THE CULT OF PROGRESS
EPISODE 8
TUESDAY, JUNE 26 @ 9:00PM
Examine the rise and fall of “progress” as an ideology, and see how the “civilizing” project that arose from Enlightenment ideas was fraught with contradictions that troubled European artists in different ways.