FRIDAY, MARCH 23 @ 10:00PM

This program is an look into the life of radical Chicano lawyer, author, and countercultural icon, Oscar Zeta Acosta – best known for his volatile friendship with legendary journalist-provocateur, Hunter S. Thompson. The author of two groundbreaking autobiographical novels, Acosta’s powerful literary voice, brash courtroom style and notorious revolutionary antics made him a revered figure within the Chicano movement, and offered one of the most brazen, frontal assaults on white supremacy seen at the time.

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THE TUNNELS OF OKINAWA

THURSDAY, MAY 22 @ 5:00PM

Learn why Imperial Japan built a network of defensive lines, bunkers and fortifications across the island of Okinawa turning it into a deadly killing machine and consider its grisly legacy.

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SECRETS OF THE SUN

SATURDAY, MARCH 17 @ 11:00PM

It contains 99.9 percent of all the matter in our solar system and sheds hot plasma at nearly a million miles an hour. The temperature at its core is a staggering 27 million degrees Fahrenheit. It convulses, it blazes, it sings. You know it as the sun. Scientists know it as one of the most amazing physics laboratories in the universe.

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WAR & JUSTICE

TUESDAY, MARCH 13

The General’s Ghost @ 9:00pm

The Blind Eye @10:00pm

In Our Time @ 11:00pm

A three-hour PBS series follows war crime investigators and prosecutors as they pursue some of the world’s most notorious war criminals—notably Adolf Eichmann, Saddam Hussein, Radovan Karadzic, Charles Taylor, and Efraín Ríos Montt. The principles, legal doctrines and tactics that emerged from those pursuits now inform the effort to expose, prosecute, and punish present day human rights violators whose depredations have left millions dead and displaced. It is a tale of daring escapades, political obstruction, broken promises, and triumphs and failures.

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WAR & JUSTICE

TUESDAY, MARCH 13

The General’s Ghost @ 6:00pm

The Blind Eye @ 7:00pm

In Our Time @ 8:00pm

A three-hour PBS series follows war crime investigators and prosecutors as they pursue some of the world’s most notorious war criminals—notably Adolf Eichmann, Saddam Hussein, Radovan Karadzic, Charles Taylor, and Efraín Ríos Montt. The principles, legal doctrines and tactics that emerged from those pursuits now inform the effort to expose, prosecute, and punish present day human rights violators whose depredations have left millions dead and displaced. It is a tale of daring escapades, political obstruction, broken promises, and triumphs and failures.

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BORN TO FLY

ELIZABETH STREB VS. GRAVITY

MONDAY, MARCH 12 @ 8:00PM

Follow the evolution of daredevil choreographer Elizabeth Streb’s movement philosophy as expressed through her technique, lifestyle and challenge to assumptions about art, aging, injury, gender and human possibility.

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SUNDAY, MARCH 1

Episode 1 @ 6:00pm & 10:00pm

When Claire confronts her husband, Malcolm Webster, over his wild spending, he tries to control her with sedatives. Afraid he’ll soon be caught, he silences her forever. Three years on, he has a new bride and history appears to be repeating itself.

Episode 2 @ 7:00pm & 11:00pm

After two failed attempts on Felicity’s life, Malcolm returns to Scotland and reinvents himself, this time as the perfect boyfriend to Simone. However, DS Henry is hot on his heels and will stop at nothing to prevent the next murder.

Episode 3 @ 8:00pm & 12:00am

As Malcolm continues to evade capture and plots to bigamously marry Simone, DS Henry is thwarted at every step of his investigation. Time is running out when he stumbles across a legal ruling that could ultimately lead to Malcolm’s downfall.

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COMING OUT

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27 @ 9:00PM

Join Ann Curry as those whose lives were changed by the early days of the gay rights movement reunite. Tom wants to find the childhood friend who urged him to come out, while Paul seeks a fellow student who inspired him to stand up for his beliefs.

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AMERICAN CREED

MONDAY, MARCH 5 @ 7:00PM

Condoleezza Rice and David M. Kennedy cross party lines to ask what ideals we share. Stories of unlikely activists including baseball’s Joe Maddon, author Junot Diaz and Marine Tegan Griffith show communities striving to come together across divides.

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RAT FILM

SATURDAY, JULY 2 @ 9:00PM

Trace the history of Baltimore through this provocative film that uses the rat–as well as the humans who love them, live with them and kill them–to chronicle the systemized oppression in impoverished communities far beyond the city’s borders.

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