La Danse: Le Ballet de l’Opéra de Paris

WENDESDAY, JUNE 16 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM

For his 38th film in a career spanning more than 40 years, master documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman turns his attention to one of the world’s greatest ballet companies, the Paris Opera Ballet. Observing daily classes, rehearsals, and performances, the camera roams the vast Palais Garnier opera house, the company’s opulent home: from its chandelier-laden corridors to its labyrinthine underground chambers, from its light-filled rehearsal studios to its luxurious theater replete with 2,200 scarlet velvet seats and Marc Chagall ceiling. La Danse – Le Ballet de l’Opéra de Paris devotes most of its time to watching young men and women — among them Nicolas Le Riche, Marie-Agnès Gillot, and Agnès Letestu — rehearsing and/or performing seven ballets, including: Genus by Wayne McGregor, Paquita by Pierre Lacotte, The Nutcracker by Rudolf Nureyev, Medea by Angelin Preljocaj, The House of Bernarda Alba by Mats Ek, Romeo and Juliet by Sasha Waltz, and Orpheus and Eurydyce by Pina Bausch.
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THE NEW RECRUITS

TUESDAY, JUNE 15 @ 8:00PM & 11:00PM

The New Recruits is a documentary about a battalion of jet-setting business students armed with a radical plan to end global poverty: charge poor people for goods and services.

The New Recruits takes an unflinching look at social enterprise, a movement touted as the new alternative to charity–its ideals, practitioners, and realities. The result is a hilarious, evocative, edge-of-your-seat thrill ride along a road paved with good intentions.

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Miss Marple – Murder Is Easy

SUNDAY, JUNE 13 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM

Miss Marple coincidentally meets a woman on the train who confides that she is on her way to Scotland Yard to report two murders. “Murder is easy,” the woman says conspiratorially. “As long as no one thinks it is murder.” When Pinkerton herself is found dead, Miss Marple travels to the quaint village of Wychwood to pick up the trail. The village is populated with any number of suspects — a beautiful, young American on some sort of mission, a successful politician and an ambitious lawyer. But even with the help of retired policeman Luke Fitzwilliam (Benedict Cumberbatch, The Last Enemy) will Miss Marple be able to unlock the secrets of this sleepy village?

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FERRETS

SATURDAY, MARCH 22 @ 11:00PM

Ferrets: The pursuit of excellence offers an endearing and amusing glimpse at America’s most playful, mischievous pets — not to mention their distinctive owners. At the annual Ferret Buckeye Bash in Columbus, Ohio, the largest and most popular ferret show in the country, hundreds of top breeders, seasoned experts and ferret enthusiasts pamper and parade their pets in a quest for prizes and prestige. FERRETS offers a quirky contrast to the common animal show — these curious creatures lack the regal air of show cats or the respectable nature of pedigreed dogs — yet these ferrets are trained, pampered and primed by their doting owners in the hope of taking the top prize in the biggest ferret show in the country.

TUESDAY, JUNE 11  @ 6:00PM & 12:00AM

Acclaimed presenter of historic documentaries, Bettany Hughes, embarks on a journey across the eastern Mediterranean to discover the truth about HELEN OF TROY, the woman blamed for causing the Trojan War. Following weapons experts, the two-hour film shows how the conflict in Helen’s name would have been fought, unraveling the reality from the myths and putting flesh on “the face that launched a thousand ships.”

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THE SOUNDS OF EAST LOS ANGELES

TUESDAY, JUNE 8 @ 8:00PM & 11:00PM

Chicano Rock! The Sounds of East Los Angeles, produced, written, directed and edited by Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Jon Wilkman, tells the lively and inspiring story of how generations of young people in America’s largest Mexican American community — caught between two cultures and not fully accepted in either — created a unique musical voice and in the process found and proudly expressed their cultural identity.

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MUSICAL MINDS

TUESDAY, JUNE 1 @ 7:30PM & 10:30PM

Can the power of music make the brain come alive? Throughout his career Dr. Oliver Sacks, neurologist and acclaimed author, whose book Awakenings was made into a Oscar-nominated feature film starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro, has encountered myriad patients who are struggling to cope with debilitating medical conditions. While their ailments vary, many have one thing in common: an appreciation for the therapeutic effects of music. NOVA follows four individuals—two of whom are Sacks’s case studies—and even peers into Sacks’s own brain, to investigate music’s strange, surprising, and still unexplained power over the human mind.

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Civilian Conservation Corps

SATURDAY, JUNE 5 @ 7:00PM

In March 1933, within weeks of his inauguration, President Franklin Roosevelt sent legislation to Congress aimed at providing relief for unemployed American workers. He proposed the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) to provide jobs in natural resource conservation. Over the next decade, the CCC put more than three million young men to work in the nation?s forests and parks, planting trees, building flood barriers, fighting fires, and maintaining roads and trails, conserving both private and federal land.

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The 2010 National Memorial Day Concert

Sunday, May 30, @ 10:00 to 11:30 pm

The Memorial Service for the Nation

Join Us As We Honor the Service and Sacrifice of Our Men and Women in Uniform and their Families

Sunday, May 30, @ 10:00 to 11:30 pm

The 2010 National Memorial Day Concert will focus on three main themes: honoring the sacrifices, suffering and love of a new generation of young military widows whose fallen spouses served in Iraq and Afghanistan; paying tribute on the 60th anniversary of the Korean War to the heroic service of the soldiers who fought and perished; paying homage to the more than 125,000 WWI and WWII service members who did not come home but rest in 24 military cemeteries in the foreign lands where they fought for liberty.

The program is co-hosted for the fifth year by Emmy Award-winner Gary Sinise (“CSI: New York“) and Tony Award-winner Joe Mantegna (“Criminal Minds“), two acclaimed actors who have dedicated themselves to veterans’ causes and supporting our troops in active service. Joining them will be an all-star line-up of dignitaries, actors and musical artists.
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2 @ 6:00PM & 9:00PM

Ben Kuroki may be one of the most remarkable people you’ve never heard of.

Born in 1917 to Japanese parents who had moved to the U.S. and settled on a small vegetable farm near Hershey, Nebraska early in the 20th century, he graduated from high school in 1936 and began a quiet life as a farmer.

And then came Pearl Harbor.

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