SYNCHRONIZED SWIMMING

SYNCHRONIZED SWIMMING: THE PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE THURSDAY, JUNE 10 @ 8:00 PM & 11:00 PM This program takes viewers below the surface of this glamorous sport to reveal the pain, sacrifice and determination required to be a champion synchronized swimmer. Graceful, sharp and visually spectacular, these dynamic routines are made only more gripping by the intensity of the fierce competition....

GREAT PERFORMANCES

At the Met The Barber of Seville SATURDAY, March 20 @ 6:00pm Count Almaviva comes in disguise to the house of Dr. Bartolo to serenade Rosina (”Ecco ridente”). Dr. Bartolo keeps Rosina, whom he intends to marry, confined to the house. Almaviva pays the musicians and decides to wait until daylight in the hope of seeing her. Figaro the Barber, who has access to the houses in Seville...

INDEPENDENT LENS

Butte, America Tuesday, March 16 @ 8:00pm & 11:00pm As Thomas Edison prepared to throw the switch that would signal the dawn of the electric age, an epic story was unfolding in the copper-rich mountains of Montana. BUTTE, AMERICA chronicles the rise and fall of a small mining town with a larger-than-life spirit—where fortunes were made and lost, and where community was precious, but...

THE BLITZ

LONDON’S LONGEST NIGHT SUNDAY, MARCH 14 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM Following the Dickensian saga of law and disorder, the fires of history burn fiercely in THE BLITZ: LONDON’S LONGEST NIGHT, airing on PBS Wednesday, February 15, 2006, 9:00-10:30 p.m. ET. On the evening of December 29, 1940, the German Luftwaffe dropped tens of thousands of incendiary bombs on the heart of London, hoping...

SCHEDULE MARCH 11 – MARCH 17

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