SEEKING ASIAN FEMALE
MONDAY, MARCH 9 @ 11:00PM
Steven is an aging white man obsessed with marrying an Asian woman, dreaming of a devoted young wife. Sandy is the young, feisty, ambitious Chinese woman he finds online. This engaging documentary follows their tumultuous love story.
For years, twice-divorced airport garage attendant Steven has been writing to numerous women through an online dating site that specializes in connecting Western men with Asian women.
WITH GWEN IFILL
FRIDAY, MAY 3 @ 9:00PM
Two students from Kazakhstan and an American teenager are charged with obstructing the police investigation into the April 15 bombing in Boston. All three are college friends of bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Pete Williams of NBC News will have the latest on the international investigation and what the three friends told police about the 19-year-old bombing suspect.
PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY IN PARIS
SATURDAY, MAY 4 @ 9:00PM
Paul Taylor is the last living member of the pantheon that created America’s indigenous art of modern dance. At an age when most artists’ best work is behind them, Taylor continues to win acclaim for the vibrancy, relevance and power of his recent dances as well as his classics.
The world-renowned Paul Taylor Dance Company has set the global standard for contemporary dance excellence. Since the company’s founding in 1954, Mr. Taylor has choreographed 136 dances, many of which have attained iconic status and have been celebrated throughout the world. Taylor has achieved countless accolades, including two of our nation’s highest artistic distinctions: the Kennedy Center Honors and the National Medal of Arts.
TOP SECRET AMERICA
9/11 TO THE BOSTON BOMBINGS
SATURDAY, MAY 4 @ 12:00AM
In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings, Americans are asking why the country’s intelligence agencies failed to prevent the devastating attack. Recent news reports indicate that even though the CIA and FBI had been warned about at least one of the bombing suspects, the two men still managed to elude America’s security net.
Have the hundreds of billions of dollars spent since Sept. 11 on counterterrorism efforts in America made us safer?
AUSTRALIA’S FIRST 4 BILLION YEARS
STRANGE CREATURES
WEDNESDAY, MAY 1 @ 10:00PM
In the wake of the catastrophic asteroid impact believed to have wiped out the dinosaurs, Australia was set adrift on a lonely voyage across southern seas. With host Richard Smith, NOVA travels the walkabout continent to uncover how it became the strange land it is today. In this final episode, “Strange Creatures,” NOVA traces the last 65 million years, revealing the events that shaped the Australia we know today.
BUGGING HITLER’S SOLDIERS
SATURDAY, MARCH 19 @ 11:00PM
Spied upon by MI19 in a bugging operation of unprecedented scale and cunning, 4,000 German POW’s revealed their inner thoughts about the Third Reich and let slip military secrets that helped the Allies win WWII. Based on groundbreaking research conducted by a German historian, the film tells the story of how those conversations were recorded and how they can now reveal, in more shocking detail than ever before, the hearts and minds of the German fighter. In total, more than 100,000 hours of these secret recordings were made. Only now have they all been declassified, researched and cross referenced.
NEVER FORGET TO LIE
THURSDAY, MAY 16 @ 7:00PM
Filmmaker Marian Marzynski, who survived the Holocaust as a Jewish child hidden among Catholics, explores his own wartime childhood and the experiences of other child survivors. Talking with some of the last remaining witnesses of the Holocaust, he delves into what it means to have an identity forged under circumstances where survival began with the directive “never forget to lie.”
THE UNDOCUMENTED
MONDAY, APRIL 29 @ 8:00PM
Marcos Hernandez lives and works in Chicago. He came to the United States from Mexico, after a life-threatening border crossing through the Sonora Desert in southern Arizona. Each month, he sends money to his mother in Mexico City to buy medicine for his brother, Gustavo, who needs a kidney transplant. The Undocumented,by acclaimed filmmaker Marco Williams, is Marcos’s story—as well as the story of countless other migrants.
RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN’S ‘CAROUSEL’
with THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC
SATURDAY, APRIL 27 @ 6:00PM
For the better part of a decade now a highlight of each New York Philharmonic season has been the semi-staged presentation of a classic from our Broadway musical theater. Past productions have included “Candide,” “Company” and “Sweeney Todd.” This year the nod goes to the Rodgers and Hammerstein masterpiece “Carousel,” which will be our next presentation on Live From Lincoln Center Friday evening, April 26 on MCPTV 26.1!
JUNGLE EAGLE
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24 @ 9:00PM
Harpy eagles are the most powerful birds of prey in the world. Standing three feet tall, with a six-foot wingspan and razor-sharp talons the size of bear claws, these birds are the heavyweight hunters of the South American rainforest. They are the top predators in the jungle canopy, feeding regularly on tree-dwelling mammals like monkeys and sloths. But scientists know very little about harpy eagles because their numbers are few and their habitat is large. Hidden in the branches of the canopy, they are rarely seen, let alone filmed.