SCHEDULES APRIL 28 – MAY 4

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SECRETS OF THE DEAD

ESCAPE FROM AUSCHWITZ THURSDAY, APRIL 28 @ 7:00PM & 10:00PM Nazi records show that tens of thousands of Jews from German-occupied territories were sent to Auschwitz to be executed each month. But two Auschwitz prisoners, Rudolph Vrba and Alfred Wetzler, were determined to expose the horrors of the Nazi genocide and stop the killing factories forever. To do that, they had to become the first...

NOVA

MT. ST. HELENS BACK FROM THE DEAD SATURDAY, APRIL 30 @ 11:00PM One of the most violent natural disasters of our time, the colossal eruption of Mt. St. Helens in 1980 blasted away an entire mountainside. Over 200 square miles of pristine forest were buried under millions of tons of lava, ash, mud, and avalanche debris. How could life ever return to this barren moonscape? Find out more...

INDEPENDENT LENS

MARWENCOL TUESDAY, APRIL 26 @ 8:00PM & 11:00PM On April 8, 2000, Mark Hogancamp was attacked outside a bar in Kingston, New York, by five men who beat him literally to death. Revived by paramedics, Mark had suffered brain damage and physical injuries so severe even his own mother didn’t recognize him. After nine days in a coma and 40 days in the hospital, Mark was discharged with...

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

MONDAY, JUNE 13 @ 7:00PM & 10:00PM When police raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar in the Greenwich Village section of New York City on June 28, 1969, the street erupted into violent protests that lasted for the next six days. The Stonewall riots, as they came to be known, marked a major turning point in the modern gay civil rights movement in the United States and around the...