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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14 @ 9:00PM
Category Archives: Program Highlights
GREAT PERFORMANCES
GRAMMY SALUTE TO MUSIC LEGENDS
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14 @ 7:00PM & 12:00AM
This year’s Lifetime Achievement Award honorees are Ruth Brown, Celia Cruz, Earth, Wind & Fire, Herbie Hancock, Jefferson Airplane, Linda Ronstadt, and Run-DMC. John Cage, Fred Foster, and Chris Strachwitz are Trustees Award honorees; and EMT and Dr. Harvey Fletcher are Technical GRAMMY® Award recipients. Also being honored is Phillip Riggs, this year’s recipient of the Music Educator Award™.
NOVA
SUPER TUNNEL
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 @ 10:00PM
Underneath the streets of London, a team of more than ten thousand construction workers race to build a brand new metro line—Crossrail. Costing almost $23 billion, it’s the biggest engineering project in Europe and must link into the existing metro system. As they burrow the 26 miles of tunnels, engineers battle to make sure historic buildings don’t crack, London Underground trains keep running, and an ambitious station roof made up of 2500 pieces comes together on time. Crucially, they must drive one of their gigantic 1000-ton tunnel boring machines through the earth, passing within inches of escalators and an active subway tunnel, without the passengers on the tube platforms below ever knowing they are there.
NATURE
SUPER HUMMINGBIRDS
WEDNESDAY, JULY 14 @ 9:00PM
Hummingbirds are amazing creatures to behold. They are the tiniest of birds, yet possess natural born super powers that enable them to fly backwards, upside-down, and float in mid-air. Their wings beat faster than the eye can see and the speed at which they travel makes people wonder if it was indeed a hummingbird they actually saw. They also are only found in the Americas. These attributes have both intrigued scientists and made it challenging to study the species, but with the latest high-speed cameras and other technologies, Super Hummingbirds reveals new scientific breakthroughs about these magical birds.
FRONTLINE
CONFRONTING ISIS
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11 @ 10:00PM
FRONTLINE investigates the U.S.-led efforts to degrade and destroy ISIS. Reporting from Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Syria, Jordan and Turkey, this two-hour film examines the successes, failures, and challenges of the fight, as ISIS loses ground in the region but strikes out abroad.
THE CONTENDERS
16 FOR ’16
GOLDWATER/REAGAN – THE CONSERVATIVES
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11 @ 6:00PM & 11:00PM
Follow the political career of Barry Goldwater, whose conservatism ultimately sowed the seeds of Ronald Reagan’s entry into politics. Though they lost their presidential bids in ’64 and ’76, these influential Republicans, it’s said, won the future.
PBS NEWSHOUR DEBATES 2016
2ND PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9 @ 7:00PM
Polls have started breaking decisively in Hillary Clinton’s direction since the first presidential debate. She doesn’t have an insurmountable lead. But Donald Trump needs to make up ground fast, and he’s running out of time. Early voting is already underway in several states, including Iowa and Illinois. Election Day is now less than five weeks away.
DREAM ON
WITH JOHN FUGELSANG
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8 @ 11:00PM
DREAM ON investigates the perilous state of the American Dream after decades of rising income inequality and declining economic mobility. In an epic road trip, political comedian John Fugelsang retraces the journey of Alexis de Tocqueville, whose study of our young country in 1831 came to define America as a place where anyone, of any background, could climb the ladder of economic opportunity. (90 Minutes)
GETTING AHEAD
WITH TAVIS SMILEY
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13 @ 7:00PM & 12:00AM
Getting Ahead focuses on the reality being faced by both small business owners and employees. Small business owners such as Sal Bednarz, owner of Actual Café, who is an outspoken supporter of increasing the minimum wage but now worries that his very slim profit margin may not be sustainable; Asiya Jabaar, director of a small state accredited day care center, who is reducing her full time staff to one part-time worker and is concerned that as a teacher she is being priced out of keeping her day care center open; Oakland’s Chinatown merchants who express concern that they cannot raise their prices to keep pace with paying mandated salary increases; Nina Cooper of Nina Cooper Designs who is convinced that a possible $19 an hour minimum wage in Berkeley will destroy small businesses; and Sam Mogannan, who owns Bi-Rite Markets and Catering and has over 300 employees who knows that he can only raise his prices so high before he looses customers.
WILLIE VELASQUEZ
YOUR VOTE IS YOUR VOICE
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6 @ 7:00PM & 12:00AM
Meet the charismatic pioneering activist whose rallying cry of “su voto es su voz” (your vote is your voice) started a grassroots movement that transformed the nation’s political landscape and paved the way for the growing power of the Latino vote.