THE CALLING
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8 @ 7:00PM
Eliza and Nash are still struggling to work together when an explosive case takes them into a cutthroat industry where people will kill to keep their secrets.
Category Archives: Program Highlights
NOVA
NOVA
EASTER ISLAND ORIGINS
WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 7 @ 10:00PM
How were Easter Island’s giant stone heads made? New research challenges the idea that their construction led to environmental and social collapse – and uncovers surprising clues about the origins, innovations, and resilience of the Rapanui people.
NATURE
FLYWAYS
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7 @ 6:00PM & 10:00PM
Follow a conservation movement of bird-loving experts and citizen scientists as they mobilize to the challenge of understanding and saving shorebirds.
FINDING YOUR ROOTS
FAR AND AWAY
TUESDAY, MAY 21 @ 9:00PM
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the extraordinarily diverse roots of journalist Sunny Hostin and actor Jesse Williams—telling long-lost stories of African and European ancestry that compel his guests to rethink their own identities.
INDEPENDENT LENS
SISTER UNA LIVED A GOOD DEATH
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5 @ 8:00PM & 12:00AM
Following a cancer diagnosis, a wisecracking Catholic nun chooses to live as she’s dying. In this touching end-of-life documentary, the self-proclaimed “leader of the misfits” plans her funeral in her last nine months to live.
NOVA
WHEN WHALES COULD WALK
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4 @ 6:00PM
A spectacular fossil graveyard reveals a 43-million-year-old whale that had four legs and could walk. Follow scientists as they search for new clues to how mammals moved from land into the sea to become the largest animals on Earth.
ALL CREATURES
ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL
PAPERS
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 29 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM
With the war feeling closer to home, James desperately wants things in order and Carmody trained up to support Siegfried. Carmody and Mrs. Pumphrey clash because he can’t see her dogs the way she does. A dinner with Gerald leaves Mrs. Hall with a dilemma but watching James and Helen brace for their future gives her a new perspective.
AMERICAN MASTERS
LITTLE RICHARD
THE KING AND QUEEN OF ROCK AND ROLL
SATURDAY, JUNE 22 @ 6:00PM
Experience the meteoric rise and enduring legacy of Little Richard. This portrait of the “King and Queen of Rock and Roll” explores his far-reaching influence as well as his advocacy for the rights of Black artists in the music industry.
MISS SCARLET & THE DUKE
THE DIAMOND FEATHER
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1 @ 7:00PM
Eliza and Nash are still struggling to work together when an explosive case takes them into a cutthroat industry where people will kill to keep their secrets.
NATURE
GORILLA
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31 @ 9:00PM
Get an intimate look at a silverback family in Gabon’s Loango National Park. Meet a newborn gorilla, forest elephants, buffalos and brave researchers in one of the last remaining wild coasts in the African tropics.