GOD AND ART
TUESDAY, MAY 1 @ 6:00PM & 11:00PM
Trace the relationship between religion and art, which has inspired some of the most ingenious, affecting, majestic and breathtaking works of art ever made. Yet beneath great works of religious art often lie conflict, intrigue and divine mysteries.
TRUE CONVICTION
MONDAY, APRIL 30 @ 8:00PM
There’s a new detective agency in Dallas, run by three exonerated men who all spent decades in prison. Their mission: to free other innocent people still behind bars. After serving a combined 60 years in prison for crimes they did not commit, three recently exonerated Texans — Christopher Scott, Johnnie Lindsey and Steven Phillips — join forces to form the unlikeliest of investigative teams, on a mission to help wrongfully convicted prisoners obtain freedom like they did.
ON MASTERPIECE
SEASON 2, EPISODE 1
SUNDAY, APRIL 29 @ 10:00PM
A waterlogged suitcase holds the remains of David Walker, 25 years after he disappeared. Walker’s wife, Tessa, turns out to be a police officer. Cassie and Sunny interview two other suspects, Sara and Colin.
SUNDAY, APRIL 29 @ 8:00PM & 10:30PM
Barbara’s condition doesn’t improve and she’s kept in isolation at the hospital, leaving her friends bereft. Dr Turner and Shelagh assist a man held in a remand home, while Lucille makes some new friends.
FRIDAY, APRIL 27 @ 6:30PM & 11:30PM
In Principle includes guests from across the ideological spectrum in the worlds of politics, policy, the arts and academia, with Amy Holmes and Michael Gerson probing the framework of today’s news and political conversations, examining how history, faith and culture influence the larger discussions taking place in the country today.
LESLIE ODOM JR. IN CONCERT
FRIDAY, MARCH 5 @ 11:00PM
Best known for his killer performance as Aaron Burr in “Hamilton,” this Tony Award winner has chosen not to rest on his laurels but to chart a new path. See where it takes him in this personally revealing concert special.
NATURAL BORN REBELS
HUNGER WARS
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 @ 10:00PM
From a promiscuous prairie dog to a kleptomaniac crab and an alpha chimpanzee who reigns with an iron fist, this three-part miniseries explores the most rebellious animals in the natural world. But are these creatures really breaking bad? Across the world, new studies are uncovering an astonishing variety of insubordinate animal behaviors, and despite how it appears on the surface, researchers are discovering the complex and fascinating science behind why these animals behave the way they do. In fact, being a rebel could be the key to success in the wild.
WAR
TUESDAY, APRIL 24 @ 10:00PM
Examine the process of “destructive creation”–the idea that fear, rivalry and conflict strengthen community bonds while stimulating an arms race of technological progress. The result is civilization. Ancient Mesoamerica exemplifies this development.
HOW DO WE LOOK?
TUESDAY, APRIL 24 @ 6:00PM & 11:00PM
Explore the many functions of the human image in art. Portraits, paintings and sculptures, both life-size and colossal, perform a role assuaging loss, expressing strength, inspiring fear and were instrumental in depicting the human body today.
LOOK & SEE
WENDELL BERRY’S KENTUCKY
MONDAY, APRIL 23 @ 8:00PM
Experience the changing landscapes and shifting values of rural America in the era of industrial agriculture, as seen through the mind’s eye of award-winning writer and farmer Wendell Berry, back home in his native Henry County, Kentucky.