INDEPENDENT LENS

FROM SELMA TO SOWETO MONDAY, JANUARY 11 @ 11:00PM Almost 50 years ago, South Africans began to realize that their freedom struggle had to be built in four arenas of action: mass action, underground organization, armed struggle, and international mobilization. These documentaries take viewers inside that last arena, the movement to mobilize worldwide citizen action to isolate the apartheid...

NOVA

3D SPIES OF WWII WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10 @ 7:00PM & 12:00AM During World War II, Hitler’s scientists developed terrifying new weapons of mass destruction. Alarmed by rumors of advanced rockets and missiles, Allied intelligence recruited a team of brilliant minds from British universities and Hollywood studios to a country house near London. Here, they secretly pored over millions of air...

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

CUSTER’S LAST STAND TUESDAY, JANUARY 17 @ 6:00PM, 9:00PM & 12:00AM On June 26, 1876, General George Armstrong Custer and 261 members of his Seventh Cavalry were killed by Cheyenne and Lakota warriors, along the Little Bighorn River in Montana Territory. Eleven days later, the news flashed across telegraph wires. Americans, still celebrating the nation’s 100th birthday, greeted...

IN PERFORMANCE AT THE WHITE HOUSE

A CELEBRATION OF MUSIC FROM THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT MONDAY, JANUARY 16 @ 8:00PM & 11:00PM   Tonight the President and First Lady will host the “In Performance at the White House: A Celebration of Music from the Civil Rights Movement” concert, featuring songs from the Civil Rights Movement as well as readings from famous Civil Rights speeches and writings with participants...

SCHEDULE 1/12-1/18

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