THE VANGUARD
TUESDAY, MARCH 16 @ 6:00PM & 10:00PM
Author Ta-Nehisi Coates, filmmaker Ava DuVernay, and author and activist Janet Mock see their basic assumptions about their families challenged, placing their ancestors ? of all colors ? into the greater context of black history.
CAMERAPERSON
MONDAY, OCTOBER 23 @ 8:00PM
A boxing match in Brooklyn; life in postwar Bosnia; the daily routine of a Nigerian midwife; an intimate family moment at home: these scenes and others are woven into a tapestry of footage captured over the twenty-five-year career of cinematographer Kirsten Johnson. A work that combines documentary, autobiography, and ethical inquiry, Cameraperson is a thoughtful examination of what it means to train a camera on the world. Official Selection, 2016 Sundance Film Festival.
SEASON 1, EPISODE 3
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22 @ 11:00PM
Paul presents his make-or-break collection of gowns. A rival tries to sabotage Nina’s starring moment. The evidence at Paul’s cottage makes more trouble.
SEASON 2, EPISODE 2
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22 @ 6:00PM & 10:00PM
Louisa has an idea to boost Larry’s writing career. It doesn’t go well. Leslie starts a distillery. Pavlos tries to inspire Margo’s spiritual side. Gerry tries out tutors.
SEASON 1 – EPISODE 1 – CAKE
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21 @ 9:00PM
Follow 12 amateur bakers as they enter the competition tent for their first hurdle: cake. The Signature Bake requires a Swiss roll, a seemingly simple task fraught with risks. For the Technical Bake, bakers must duplicate Mary Berry’s classic cherry cake, to Berry’s exacting standard. In the Showstopper Bake, the competitors tackle classic British cakes — in perfect miniature — 36 of them.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20 @ 9:00PM
A bipartisan proposal drafted by Sens. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and Patty Murray, D-Wash., would restore health insurance subsidies and provide short-term fixes to the insurance marketplaces. The approximately $9 billion per year would help pay the out-of-pocket costs for millions of low-income Americans covered by the Affordable Care Act exchanges. President Trump‘s support for the bill has wavered throughout the week as the White House and many Republicans in Congress remain committed to repealing and replacing Obamacare.
SHE LOVES ME
FRIDAY, JULY 24 @ 7:00PM & 11:30PM
She Loves Me was the first Broadway musical ever to stream live during a performance at Roundabout Theatre Company’s Studio 54. In the musical, Tony Award® winner Laura Benanti and Tony Award®nominee Zachary Levi star as Amalia and Georg, two parfumerie clerks who aren’t quite the best of friends. Constantly bumping heads while on the job, the sparring coworkers can’t seem to find common ground. But little do they know, the anonymous romantic pen pals they have both been falling for happen to be each other. Will love continue to blossom once their identities are finally revealed?
SECRETS OF THE FORBIDDEN CITY
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29 @ 7:00PM
The Forbidden City is the world’s biggest and most extravagant palace complex ever built. For five centuries, it was the power center of imperial China and survived wars, revolution, fires, and earthquakes. How did the Ming Emperor’s workforce construct its sprawling array of nearly 1,000 buildings and dozens of temples in a little over a decade?
PURITANS AND PIONEERS
TUESDAY, JANUARY 9 @ 9:00PM
Actors Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen and William H. Macy trace their nonconformist ancestors through American conflicts, the Civil War and the American Revolution, all the way back to the Puritan establishment.
MOTHERLAND
MONDAY, OCTOBER 16 @ 8:00PM &11:00PM
Motherland is an absorbingly intimate, vérité look at the busiest maternity hospital on the planet, in one of the world’s most populous countries: the Philippines. Women share their stories with other mothers, their families, doctors and social workers. In a hospital that is literally bursting with life, we witness the miracle and wonder of the human condition.