Category Archives: Program Highlights

WASHINGTON WEEK

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17 @ 9:00PM

The House passed a sweeping tax overhaul bill on Thursday, moving President Trump and Republicans a step closer to their first major legislative win of 2017. The plan would slash the corporate tax rate, cut taxes for individuals and reduce the number of tax brackets.

The Senate Republican tax package has a more uncertain future.  At least two GOP lawmakers have said they cannot get behind the $1.5 trillion tax cut proposal that includes an amendment to repeal the Affordable Care Act’s individual insurance mandate.


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GREAT PERFORMANCES

INDECENT

SUNDAY, JUNE 9  @ 10:00PM

Indecent‘s heart-wrenching and emotional themes remain relevant today. The deeply thought-provoking play, dramatizing how freedoms and ideas were persecuted in the 1920s, conveys the message of love and tolerance that needs to be preserved and shared with audiences worldwide.


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POV

ALMOST SUNRISE

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13 @ 11:00PM

In an attempt to put haunting combat experiences behind them, two friends embark on an epic 2,700-mile trek on foot across America, seeking redemption and healing as a way to close the moral chasm opened by war. Almost Sunrise is an intimate, vérité film that eschews stereotypes and instead captures an unprecedented portrait of veterans — one of hope, potential and untold possibilities.


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FOO FIGHTERS

LANDMARKS LIVE IN CONCERT

A GREAT PERFORMANCES SPECIAL

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11 @ 11:00PM

Created by veteran documentary and live event producer/director Daniel E Catullo III, Landmarks Live in Concert features a lineup of global music superstars performing at landmark locations of either historical or personal significance around the world. Each episode is hosted by Chad Smith, drummer for multi-Grammy-winning rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, who interviews the artists as they explore locations around each landmark.


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GREAT PERFORMANCES

IN THE HEIGHTS: CHASING BROADWAY DREAMS

FRIDAY, AUGUST 7 @ 7:00PM &11:00PM

Making it in New York City is tough.  Few get the chance to live out their dreams, and the cast and crew of In the Heights know this all too well.  This young, diverse group of relatively unknown artists and performers dreamed of making it on Broadway, but are well aware that a new original musical set outside a bodega in the Latino neighborhood of Washington Heights is a highly risky proposition.


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NOVA

KILLER FLOODS

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22 @ 11:00PM

All over the world, scientists are discovering traces of ancient floods on a scale that dwarfs even the most severe flood disasters of recent times. What triggered these cataclysmic floods, and could they strike again? In the Channeled Scablands of Washington State, the level prairie gives way to bizarre, gargantuan rock formations: house-sized boulders seemingly dropped from the sky, a cliff carved by a waterfall twice the height of Niagara, and potholes large enough to swallow cars. Like forensic detectives at a crime scene, geologists study these strange features and reconstruct catastrophic Ice Age floods more powerful than all the world’s top ten rivers combined.


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