RAISING ADAM LANZA
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10 @ 11:00PM
How do you make sense of a seemingly senseless act of violence? How do you help the country begin to process the trauma of 20 small children shot dead in their classroom?
In the wake of the mass killings at Sandy Hook Elementary, FRONTLINE and The Hartford Courant’s jarring documentary “Raising Adam Lanza” tackles those questions in an investigative look into Adam Lanza’s childhood and life before the Newtown shootings.
MIND OF A RAMPAGE KILLER
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23 @ 11:00PM
What makes a person walk into a theater or a church or a classroom full of students and open fire? What combination of circumstances compels a human being to commit the most inhuman of crimes? Can science in any way help us understand these horrific events and provide any clues as to how to prevent them in the future?
THE PATH TO VIOLENCE
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20 @ 8:00PM
Psychologists, working with law enforcement officers, have devised tools to prevent violent attacks. “The Path to Violence,” details a powerfully effective Secret Service program — the Safe School Initiative — that’s helped schools detect problem behavior.
GUNS IN AMERICA
TUESDAY, AUGUST 13 @ 9:00PM
From the first European settlements in the New World to frontier justice and from the Civil War to civil rights, guns have been at center of our national narrative. “After Newtown: Guns In America” traces the evolution of guns in the U.S., their frequent link to violence and the clash of cultures that reflect competing visions of our national identity.
GARY CLARK JR./ALABAMA SHAKES
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17 @ 12:00AM
This weekend, ACL presents two game-changers bringing modern blues and soul to a new generation: Gary Clark Jr. and Alabama Shakes. The power of live performance is front and center as Austin’s own rock ‘n’ soul phenomenon Clark and soulful rockers Alabama Shakes take the ACL stage in separate showcases.
“I’ve been wanting to do this for sixteen years” says a stoked Gary Clark Jr.from the stage. “It feels so good to be here right now.” Long Austin’s favorite son, the twenty-eight year old bluesman exploded onto the music scene when he delivered an incredible debut performance at Eric Clapton’s 2010 Crossroads Guitar Festival. Born and raised in Austin, Clark began playing guitar at age 12, tearing up hometown stages since he was a teenager.
RING THEM BELLS! A KANDER & EBB CELEBRATION
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15 @ 7:00PM & 12:00AM
By Martin Bookspan
For nearly a century the Broadway musical stage has been enriched by teams of lyricist and composer: one need only think of Kern and Hammerstein, Rodgers and Hart, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Lowe and immediately the great songs of our musical heritage begin to play themselves in our heads. Kander and Ebb were such a team also, and it is to the memorable output of that team that our next Live From Lincoln Center, on Friday evening, February 15, will be devoted. Titled “Ring Them Bells! Rob Fisher Celebrates Kander and Ebb”, the Special will bring us a virtual cavalcade of the vibrant output of this remarkable duo.
COLD WARRIORS: WOLVES AND BUFFALO
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30 @ 6:00PM & 10:00PM
For thousands of years, wolves have hunted buffalo across the vast North American plains. Although westward settlement of the continent saw the virtual extinction of these vast herds and their eternal predators, this ancient relationship was not lost altogether. On the northern edge of the continent’s central plains, in a place named Wood Buffalo National Park, buffalo and wolves still engage in epic life and death dramas. By following one pack of wolves, wildlife filmmaker Jeff Turner captures how these two animal species live together in what seems like a forgotten corner of the world.
EARTH FROM SPACE
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26 @ 7:00PM & 12:00AM
“Earth From Space” is a groundbreaking two-hour special that reveals a spectacular new space-based vision of our planet. Produced in extensive consultation with NASA scientists, NOVA takes data from earth-observing satellites and transforms it into dazzling visual sequences, each one exposing the intricate and surprising web of forces that sustains life on earth. Viewers witness how dust blown from the Sahara fertilizes the Amazon; how a vast submarine “waterfall” off Antarctica helps drive ocean currents around the world; and how the sun’s heating up of the southern Atlantic gives birth to a colossally powerful hurricane. (2 HOURS)
CLIFFHANGER
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14 @ 7:00PM
FRONTLINE investigates the inside history of how Washington has failed to solve the country’s problems of debt and deficit. Drawing on interviews with key players in Congress and the White House, FRONTLINE shows how a clash of politics and personalities has taken the nation’s economy to the edge of the “fiscal cliff,” and now to a second round of standoffs over the debt ceiling and sequestration.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER
SATURDAY, JUNE 22 @ 9:00PM
“The Rockefellers” is the saga of four generations of a legendary American family whose name is synonymous with great wealth.
The story begins in the Christian revivalist fervor of the 1830s with a marriage of opposites: Eliza Davison, a pious young woman, and “Devil Bill” Rockefeller, swindler, snake-oil salesman, and eventually, bigamist. Their son, John D. Rockefeller, created an industrial empire — and a personal fortune — on a scale the world had never known. He ruthlessly crushed his competitors in the process, alienating the public and leaving a stain on the family name.