MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9 @ 8:00PM

Episode Three: Violence and Solutions

In the United States, domestic violence claims more than three lives a day on average; one in every four women will experience it during their lifetime. Domestic violence creates a climate of distress and terror, impedes the upbringing of children, and yet is still a taboo that is not adequately addressed.

In this episode, Nicholas Kristof and Regina Hall visit Atlanta to explore the work of two organizations that combat domestic violence. At the Women’s Resource Center, a shelter, aid, and advocacy organization for battered women, they meet Ayonna Johnson, a legal advocate who gives them a first-hand look at how the legal system often works against abused women. Brave survivors share their experiences about the often-difficult reality of leaving a domestic abuser behind.

FIND OUT MORE »

NEW ORLEANS – BOARD OF TRADE

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7 @ 11:00PM

The team of genealogists are in the Big Easy uncovering fascinating stories from the residents of one of America’s most mulit-cultural cities. While at the Board of Trade, a local man seeks to recover essential history washed away in Hurricane Katrina; a woman discovers she has links to both sides of the Civil War; another unravels the mystery behind her grandfather’s adoption; and one man explores a link to the famous New Orleans Voodoo Queen, Marie Laveau.

FIND OUT MORE »

THE TAMING OF THE SHREW WITH MORGAN FREEMAN

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7 @ 6:00PM

Freeman first discovered Shakespeare in school in Mississippi. He went on to play the hero of this play – Petruchio – in The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park production in New York, set in the Wild West. Freeman notes this play has set the template for all of the battle-of-the-sexes comedies that have followed; many a romantic comedy has The Taming of the Shrew running through its veins.

It’s a love story between two unlikely characters. The Shrew is Katherine, a woman who is bitter, viperish, wild – or simply not prepared to accept the conventions of her time – and thus “unmarriageable.” Petruchio is after a wife, and the wealthier the better.

FIND OUT MORE »

WITH GWEN IFILL

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6 @ 9:00PM

Jordan Steps Up Fight Against ISIS, U.S. Considers Arming Ukraine and How Vaccines & Poverty are Playing in 2016

For months Islamic State (ISIS) fighters have seized headlines with the release of shocking videos showing vicious beheadings and the brutal torture and execution of hostages.  The savagery reached a new level this week with the news that a Jordanian pilot, captured last year by ISIS militants, was burned alive. King Abdullah of Jordan has vowed to the step up the fight against ISIS as part of the U.S.-led coalition to destroy the jihadist militants.

FIND OUT MORE »

HOME/PLAINS

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4 @ 7:00PM & 12:00AM

HOME
Travel deep into the wild to take a fresh look at humankind’s relationship to the big animals that live alongside us. From cuddling baby pandas to avoiding man-eating tigers, Dr. M. Sanjayan investigates our changing relationships with the wilderness. The severe peril of extraordinary animals and their habitats is ever-present, but Sanjayan focuses on the powerful stories that prove animals and humans can thrive side by side. It’s a new kind of wild, but one on which we all depend.

PLAINS
Explore the giant herds that roam the wild grasslands of the plains. Home to the greatest gathering of animal life on the planet, the plains are also increasingly our bread basket — and among the most endangered places on Earth. Dr. Sanjayan follows a unique elephant conservation project in South Africa and tracks the prairies to see how Americans are saving their most-endangered mammal. His journey uncovers a vital new understanding about how both humans and predators can help the animals found on the plains.

FIND OUT MORE »

FIRESTONE AND THE WARLORD

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3 @ 11:00PM

HARBEL, Liberia — The killers launched from the plantation under a waning moon one night in October 1992. They surged past tin-roofed villages and jungle hideouts, down macadam roads and red-clay bush trails. More and more joined their ranks until thousands of men in long, ragged columns moved toward the distant capital.

Men in camouflage mounted rusted artillery cannon in battered pickup trucks. Thin teenagers lugged rocket-propelled grenade launchers. Children carried AK-47s. Some held long machetes.

FIND OUT MORE »

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

TUESDAY, AUGUST 24 @ 10:00PM

In the summer of 1910, hundreds of wildfires raged across the Northern Rockies. By the time it was all over, more than three million acres had burned and at least 78 firefighters were dead. It was the largest fire in American history, and it assured the future of the still-new United States Forest Service.

FIND OUT MORE »

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2 @ 8:00PM

EPISODE TWO: BREAKING THE CYCLE OF POVERTY

With Nicholas Kristof, Jennifer Garner returns to her native West Virginia to visit families enrolled in Save the Children’s Early Steps program, which introduces books and early learning to children living in poverty, and provides social and emotional support for the mothers. One child benefiting from the program is Johnny Weethee, who was just accepted into pre-K with the help of program coordinator Tonya Bonecutter.

FIND OUT MORE »

DOWNTON ABBEY SEASON 5

EPISODE 5

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM

EPISODE 5: Rosamund is suspicious, Edith is desperate, and Branson is pressured to choose his allegiances. Charles Blake hatches a plan and Rose makes a handsome new acquaintance.

Downton Abbey returns for an epic fifth season of intimately interlaced stories centered on an English country estate—a deliciously entertaining formula that has made it the highest-rated drama in PBS history.

FIND OUT MORE »

GRANTCHESTER

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15 @ 7:00PM & 12:00PM

EPISODE 3: An old woman tells Sidney that someone wants her dead. Then she dies. Coincidence? The new curate delivers a surprising sermon.

Handsome, young vicar Sidney Chambers (James Norton) shares his spiritual duties with a love of jazz, complicated relationships with women, and an enthusiasm for amateur sleuthing. When the concern of a parishioner compels him to dig deeper into a grisly suicide, he gets on the nerve of a tired, local law enforcement officer—Inspector Geordie Keating (Robson Green). Fortunately, the cleric and the cop bond over their war service, their love of a good pub, and their competitive instincts—in this case, for backgammon.

FIND OUT MORE »