NOVA

INSIDE THE MEGASTORM WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21 @ 10:00PM   Was Hurricane Sandy a freak combination of weather systems? Or are hurricanes increasing in intensity due to a warming climate? How did this perfect storm make search and rescue so dangerous? “Inside the Megastorm” takes viewers moment by moment through Hurricane Sandy, its impacts, and the future of storm protection....

AMERICAN MASTERS

INVENTING DAVID GEFFEN TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20 @ 9:00PM “I’ve always thought that each person invented himself… that we are each a figment of our own imagination. And some people have a greater ability to imagine than others.”–– David Geffen David Geffen’s far-reaching influence — as agent, manager, record industry mogul, Hollywood and Broadway producer, and philanthropist — has...

FRONTLINE

POOR KIDS TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7 @ 11:00PM FRONTLINE spent months following three young girls who are growing up against the backdrop of their families’ struggles against financial ruin. At a time when one in five American kids lives below the poverty line, Poor Kids is an is an intimate portrait of the economic crisis as it’s rarely seen, through the eyes of children. Find out more...

THE DUST BOWL

Reaping the Whirlwind TUESDAY, APRIL 30 @ 9:00PM THE DUST BOWL chronicles the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history, in which the frenzied wheat boom of the “Great Plow-Up,” followed by a decade-long drought during the 1930s nearly swept away the breadbasket of the nation. Vivid interviews with twenty-six survivors of those hard times, combined with dramatic...

THE DUST BOWL

Reaping the Whirlwind MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19 @ 6:00PM, 8:00PM & 11:00PM THE DUST BOWL chronicles the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history, in which the frenzied wheat boom of the “Great Plow-Up,” followed by a decade-long drought during the 1930s nearly swept away the breadbasket of the nation. Vivid interviews with twenty-six survivors of those hard times,...