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NATURE

Program Highlights

H IS FOR HAWK: A NEW CHAPTER

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10 @ 6:00PM & 10:00PM

After the unexpected death of her photojournalist father, Helen Macdonald overcame her grief by training an adult goshawk, one of nature’s most notoriously wild and free-spirited birds of prey. As she explains in the film, “I ran towards things of death and difficulty:  spooky, pale-eyed feathered ghosts that lived and killed in woodland thickets. I ran towards goshawks.” She had trained birds before, but never this raptor which she named Mabel. Macdonald found healing in that cathartic experience which became the basis for her 2014 international best-selling memoir H Is for Hawk.


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FINDING YOUR ROOTS

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IMMIGRANT NATION

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31 @ 9:00PM

In this episode, three guests explore the tremendous challenges faced by their immigrant forebears.

Actors Scarlett Johansson, Paul Rudd and John Turturro, all with immigrant parents, gain greater understanding of the unique challenges their ancestors faced by way of prejudice and poverty at home and abroad.


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EDGAR ALLAN POE

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AMERICAN MASTERS

MONDAY, OCTOBER 30 @ 7:00PM

Discover the real story of the notorious author, starring Denis O’Hare as Edgar Allan Poe. The program explores the misrepresentations of Poe and reveals how he tapped into what it means to be human in a modern and sometimes frightening world.


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NOVA

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KILLER VOLCANOES

FRIDAY, AUGUST 18 @ 10:00PM

Follow a team of volcano sleuths as they embark on a worldwide hunt for an elusive volcanic mega-eruption that plunged medieval Earth into a deep freeze. The mystery begins when archaeologists find a hastily dug mass grave of 4,000 men, women, and children in London. At first they assume it’s a plague pit from the Black Death, but when they date the bones, they turn out to be too old by a century.


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WASHINGTON WEEK

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27 @ 9:00PM

The battle over the identity of the Republican Party intensified this week as another establishment senator made an impassioned plea to say “enough” to President Trump.

Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., announced he will not seek reelection and will no longer be “complicit or silent” about the president’s “unacceptable” behavior. 


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FRONTLINE

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PUTIN’S REVENGE

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12 @ 8:00PM

For months, reports of Russian interference in the 2016 election have dominated the headlines. Now, FRONTLINE tells the story of how Vladimir Putin came to see the United States as an enemy — and why he decided to target an American election. In a special, two-part documentary with in-depth reporting from Moscow and Washington, D.C., Michael Kirk and the team behind “The Choice 2016“ examine Putin’s rise, rule and motivations. (Part 1)


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NATURE

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CHARLIE AND THE CURIOUS OTTERS

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20 @ 6:00PM & 10:00PM

The elusive, playful, and adaptable otter has the distinction of having mastered both the aquatic and terrestrial worlds. They are equally adept at hunting underwater as they are foraging and chasing prey in a forest. But they are not easy to spot, despite the fact there are 13 different species on earth. Although they’ve been hunted for sport and fur and their numbers are down, not one species has become extinct. How otters are able to operate so successfully on both land and in water has fascinated wildlife filmmaker Charlie Hamilton James for years, so he decided to see what he could learn from studying several species around the world to discover their survival secrets.


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