A YEAR INSIDE AN AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL

TUESDAY, MARCH 26 @ 10:00PM

Following the day-to-day stories of students, parents, teachers and staff at the Washington Metropolitan High School (also known as DC Met), 180 Days: Inside An American High School, is an intimate portrait of a public school that attempts to make a difference in the lives of students each and every day.

Whether they are preparing for college or becoming teen moms, the students at DC Met face many challenges with spirit and resilience and welcome us to challenge many of our own assumptions as we travel with the first graduating class to commencement.

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GIRL MODEL

SUNDAY, MARCH 24 @ 8:00PM & 12:30AM

Girl Modelstrips away the façade of the modeling industry by following two people whose lives intersect because of it. Ashley is a deeply conflicted American model scout, and 13-year-old Nadya, plucked from a remote Siberian village and promised a lucrative career in Japan, is her latest discovery. As the young girl searches for glamour and an escape from poverty, she confronts the harsh realities of a culture that worships youth — and an industry that makes perpetual childhood a globally traded commodity.

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OPENING NIGHT AT THE

SMITH CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

SATURDAY, MARCH 23 @ 9:00PM

Share the excitement of opening night at the new Smith Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. Neil Patrick Harris hosts FROM DUST TO DREAMS: OPENING NIGHT AT THE SMITH CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS, headlined by Jennifer Hudson, Carole King, Martina McBride and many others from the worlds of music, television, stage and screen. Michael Stevens directs.

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SMARTEST MACHINE ON EARTH

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20 @ 10:00PM

“Watson,” an IBM computing system, is gearing up for a first-of-its-kind challenge—taking on human contestants on the game show Jeopardy!With a brain the size of 2,400 home computers and a database of about 10 million documents, will Watson be able to compute its way to victory?

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THE LONELIEST ANIMALS

SATURDAY, MARCH 23 @ 10:00PM

Around the globe, unique and fascinating species face extinction from hunting and habitat destruction, which affects vulnerable animals in every kind of environment. Biologists, conservationists, wildlife preservation centers and zoological parks work to breed and shelter rare and critically endangered animals when and where they can, but many species are down to the last few individuals and face an increasingly uncertain future. For some, however, the future is all too clear. Lonesome George, a Pinta Island tortoise from the Galapagos Islands, is the very last of his kind.

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THURSDAY, MARCH 21 @ MIDNIGHT

In Time Team: Special Edition, the United Kingdom’s groundbreaking archaeology series takes viewers on an expedition to Jamestown, Virginia, where a British company’s commercial enterprise planted the seeds of the United States. There have been nearly a million finds from the site’s trenches, but this anniversary special is far more than just an excavation. The team retrieves piles of perfectly preserved 17th-century pieces, traces the names and life stories of the early American pioneers, and learns why a third of them died within months of arrival. The colonists at Jamestown went looking for gold and silver. Instead, they found fertile soil, tough conditions and the beginnings of the world’s most powerful nation.

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INSIDE JAPAN’S NUCLEAR MELTDOWN

THURSDAY, MARCH 21 @ 10:00PM

In the desperate hours and days after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the fate of thousands of Japanese citizens fell into the hands of a small corps of engineers, firemen and soldiers who risked their lives to prevent the Daiichi nuclear complex from complete meltdown. This is their story, with rare footage from inside the plant and eyewitness testimony from the people on the frontlines.

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WITH GWEN IFILL

FRIDAY, MARCH 15 @ 9:00PM

President Barack Obama continued his “charm offensive” this week meeting with House Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill. While the president tried to broker a bipartisan budget deal, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan unveiled a new GOP budget proposal and Senator Patty Murray unveiled the Democratic blueprint. The reactions by both Democrats and Republicans: neither budget is likely to become law. So what will it take to bridge the partisan divide and reach a compromise?

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THURSDAY, MARCH 14 @ 12:00AM

The film, a two-hour special tells the story of how disparate Mexican regional interests came together to foment a revolution that rocked the world. It ends explaining what the bulk of recent first-generation U.S.-born Hispanics of Mexican descent recognize as a fountain of their culture: murals.

It turns out that the works — depicting farm workers, indigenous peasant dancers, Mayan and Aztec gods, revolution-era heroes and empowered protesters — are a relatively new thing.

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SEASON 1 ~ Encore Performance

SUNDAY, MARCH 17 @ 6:00PM & 10:00PM

Episodes 4-6 (3 hours)

Call the Midwife, written by Heidi Thomas and based on the best-selling memoirs of the late Jennifer Worth, returns for a second season.  Nonnatus House opens its doors to warmly welcome the audience back into 1950s East End London and continues to follow Poplar’s community of exceptional midwives and nursing nuns.

Season 2, premiering on March 31 on MCPTV,  stays true to the show’s roots — viewers can expect to see more births, babies and bicycling, plus blossoming romance from an unexpected quarter. 

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