SEASON 2 ON MASTERPIECE
EPISODE 2
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 @ 8:00PM
Aafrin saves his friend’s life, but gets a gruesome payback. Ralph’s ambition faces a roadblock. Sooni feels family pressure. And Madeline extracts the truth.
Category Archives: Program Highlights
ROYAL WIVES AT WAR
THURSDAY, MARCH 17 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM
The British royal family torn apart, a nation and empire thrown into crisis and the world plunged into war. To mark 80 years since Britain’s Abdication Crisis in 2016, this drama-documentary for the BBC and PBS reveals a fierce rivalry between two women — Elizabeth the Queen Mother and American socialite Wallis Simpson — and the political, cultural and constitutional repercussions their bitter feud had on the monarchy.
ART IN THE 21st CENTURY
MEXICO CITY
FRIDAY, MARCH 9 @ 11:00PM
Featured are Damián Ortega, who makes sculptures from ordinary objects; Pedro Reyes, who designs solutions to social problems; Minerva Cuevas, who creates interventions in public space; and feature filmmaker Natalia Almada.
ART IN THE 21st CENTURY
CHICAGO
FRIDAY, MARCH 9 @ 7:00PM & 12:00AM
Featured are Nick Cave, who creates wearable objects blending fashion and movement; sculptor and urban planner Theaster Gates; Barbara Kasten, who makes photographs and video projections; and cartoonist Chris Ware, a pioneer of the graphic novel.
TIME FOR SCHOOL
2003-2016
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 @ 10:00PM
Time for School: 2003-2016, a longitudinal documentary project, portrays the gripping stories of five kids in five countries who are struggling against the odds to get a basic education. These children live in countries – India, Brazil, Kenya, Afghanistan and Benin – where poverty, child labor, early marriage, and the chaos of war prevent legions of young people from getting an education.
CRAFT IN AMERICA
TEACHERS
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 @ 6:00PM
TEACHERS highlights artists committed to sharing the skills and passion for craft with students of all ages. Featuring Navajo weavers Barbara Teller Ornelas and Lynda Teller Pete at Idyllwild Arts, glass artist Mark Mitsuda at Punahou School, glass artist Therman Statom, and ceramic artist Linda Sikora at Alfred University School of Art and Design.
NOVA
SCHOOL OF THE FUTURE
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 @ 7:00PM & 12:00AM
In a new age of information, rapid innovation, and globalization, how can we prepare our children to compete? Once the envy of the world, American schools are now in trouble. Test scores show our kids lag far behind their peers from other industrialized countries, and as the divide between rich and poor grows wider, the goal of getting all kids ready for college and the workforce gets harder by the day. How can the latest research help us fix education in America?
FORCES OF NATURE
SHAPE
SATURDAY, JULY 22 @ 11:00PM
The forces of nature make Earth a restless planet, but they also turned our ball of rock into a home for life. How did our planet’s ingredients, the chemical elements, come together and take that first crucial step from barren rock to a living world?
TED Talks
EDUCATION REVOLUTION
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 @ 8:00PM
Education Revolution, hosted by author, producer and comedian Baratunde Thurston and actor and singer Sara Ramirez, focuses on how education is changing to adapt to our new digital world. The program features talks from educator Sal Khan, who examines what the classroom might look like in the future and the impact of online teaching, Victor Rios, who takes a deep dive into the problems of the school-to-prison pipeline, and Principal Nadia Lopez, whose middle school is in the most dangerous borough in New York and where almost all her students live below the poverty line.
FRONTLINE
A SUBPRIME EDUCATION
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 @ 10:00PM
In a one-hour special on Tues., Sept. 13, FRONTLINE presents two films on education in America. First: In “A Subprime Education,” we return to the story of for-profit colleges — which FRONTLINE first examined in the 2010 film “College Inc.” — to investigate allegations of fraud and predatory behavior in the troubled industry, and the collapse of Corinthian Colleges.
Then, “The Education of Omarina” updates a story FRONTLINE has been following since 2012 — showing how an innovative program to stem the high school dropout crisis has affected one girl’s journey, from a public middle school in the Bronx to an elite New England private school, and now on to college.
This two-part hour airs as part of PBS’s “Spotlight Education,” a week of primetime programming focused on the challenges facing America’s education system.