FRONTLINE

A Death in Tehran TUESDAY, JANUARY 19 @ 7:00PM & 10:00PM At the height of the protests following Iran’s controversial presidential election this summer, a young woman named Neda Agha Soltan was shot and killed on the streets of Tehran. Her death — filmed on a camera phone, then uploaded to the Web — quickly became an international outrage, and Soltan became the face of a...

American Experience

Influenza 1918: American Experience Monday, January 18 @ 7:00pm & 10:00pm Early in the morning of March 11, 1918, a young private reported to the Army hospital at Fort Riley, Kansas, complaining of fever, sore throat, and headache. Then, another sick soldier appeared, then another and another. By noon, the hospital had more than one hundred cases; in a week, there were five hundred....

SCHEDULE JANUARY 14 – JANUARY 20

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WALLACE STEGNER

WALLACE STEGNER FRIDAY, JANUARY 15 @ 8:00PM & 11:00PM This film is a portrait of the conservationist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Wallace Stegner. He was many things: teacher, historian and environmentalist but, above all, Wallace Stegner was a writer. Considered by many to be the “Dean” of western writers, he was a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and non-fiction author,...

INDEPENDENT LENS

YOUNG @ HEART TUESDAY, JANUARY 12 @ 7:00PM & 10:00PM The Young@Heart Chorus, a group composed of New England senior citizens, has delighted audiences worldwide with renditions of songs by artists from The Clash to Coldplay. YOUNG@HEART chronicles seven weeks in the lives of the members of the chorus as they prepare for a one-night-only concert in their hometown of Northampton,...