THE CHEETAH CHILDREN
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2 @ 6:00PM &10:00PM
Life on the African plains is a constant struggle, and for a single mother rearing her offspring, the odds seem to be stacked against them. The mother is completely on her own, protecting her five newborn cubs and teaching them how to hunt some of the continent’s fastest game. Watch as the inquisitive cubs explore the world around them and discover their place in the forests of Zimbabwe.
BLACK LIKE ME
TUESDAY, JUNE 22 @ 9:00PM
Guests: Bryant Gumbel, Tonya Lewis-Lee and Suzanne Malveaux. Three African-American guests delve deep into their family trees, discovering unexpected stories that challenge our assumptions about black history.
THE HUMAN COST OF WAR
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6 @ 7:00PM & 12:00AM
Explore the history of the Department of Veterans Affairs, from the troubled beginnings of the Veterans Bureau of 1920s to the modern VA system. Learn details of this vast, crucial American institution: its successes, failures and need for reforms.
CHASING TRANE
THE JOHN COLTRANE DOCUMENTARY
SATURDAY. AUGUST 19 @ 6:00PM
Chasing Trane is about an outside-the-box thinker whose boundary-shattering music continues to impact and influence people around the world. This portrait of a remarkable jazz artist reveals the critical events, passions, experiences and challenges that shaped the life of John Coltrane and his revolutionary sounds.
ON MASTERPIECE
SEASON 3, EPISODE 6
THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 9 @ 10:00PM
Whitworth puts Morwenna through the tortures of the damned. Aunt Agatha and George cross swords in their deadliest match yet. Demelza gets an admirer who owes his life to Ross. TV-PG.
ON MASTERPIECE
SEASON 1, EPISODE 5
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5 @ 8:00PM & 12:00AM
On a weekend at his partner’s chateau, Paul expels unwelcome guests. Charlotte makes her move. Nina shames Billy. Claude chastens Caesar. Back in Paris, Victor meets Dominique and tragedy ensues.
VIETNAM, HO CHI MINH CITY – PHO
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24 @ 10:00PM
Follow popular Hawai’i chef Andrew Le to Ho Chi Minh City, to taste pho, the national dish of Vietnam, and to connect to his family roots in the city his parents fled in 1975, barely escaping the fall of Saigon.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3 @ 9:00PM
Republicans rolled out their sweeping plan to lower the corporate tax rate and slash taxes for middle-income Americans. The proposal includes a number of changes including lowering inheritance taxes while preserving popular rules that protect retirement savings. Republicans hope to offset some of the lost revenue from lower tax rates by eliminating tax breaks in the code. President Trump is urging lawmakers to act quickly to pass the tax reform package so he can sign it into law by the end of the year.
NOEL COWARD’S PRESENT LAUGHTER
FRIDAY, JULY 31 @ 7:00PM & 11:30PM
Noël Coward’s Present Laughter follows a self-obsessed actor in the midst of a mid-life crisis. Juggling his considerable talent, ego and libido, the theater’s favorite leading man suddenly finds himself caught between fawning ingénues, crazed playwrights, secret trysts and unexpected twists.
KILLER HURRICANES
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23 @ 10:00PM
Devastating hurricanes struck the U.S. mainland and Caribbean islands in 2017. But they weren’t the first. The Great Hurricane of 1780 took nine days to blast its way across the Caribbean, killing at least 20,000—the highest known death toll of any single weather event in history. What made this superstorm so deadly? To reconstruct its epic scale and investigate what made it so devastating, NOVA joins historians and storm sleuths as they track down clues in eyewitness chronicles, old ruins, and computer simulations. Their evidence points to a truly terrifying, 300-mile-wide storm—with wind speeds probably exceeding 230 miles an hour and 25-feet storm surges that demolished everything in their path. But just how unusual was the Great Hurricane?