AFTER NEWTOWN

AFTER NEWTOWN FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21 @ 6:00PM & 11:00PM Gwen Ifill anchors After Newtown, featuring contributions from PBS NewsHour, FRONTLINE, Washington Week, NOVA and Need to Know. The show addresses such issues as access to guns and the politics of gun laws; mental illness in young adults; the science of detecting violent impulses; and how communities react to unspeakable tragedy. Find out...

THE IRANIAN AMERICANS

THE IRANIAN AMERICANS @ 7:00PM THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20 @ 10:30PM Filmed around the United States, The Iranian Americans chronicles the underreported history of a group of immigrants finding refuge, overcoming adversity and ultimately creating new lives in the United States. With Iran in the news virtually every day, many Americans have little knowledge of the story of the hundreds of thousands of...

FIRST FREEDOM

THE FIGHT FOR RELIGIOUS LIBERTY SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22 @ 9:00PM FIRST FREEDOM: The Fight for Religious Libertyis the human story of how the Founding Fathers viewed faith, and how they radically broke with the Western tradition of religion-by-law to create a nation in which belief in God is a matter of choice. The film is about the people who imagined a new way of approaching human and civil...

MARKET WARRIORS

ANTIQUING IN CANTON, TX – Part 2 MONDAY, DECEMBER 17 @ 10:00PM This week on MARKET WARRIORS, pickers Miller, John, Bob and Kevin return to Canton, Texas, home to First Monday Trade Days, a massive monthly market in East Texas. Day two is a challenge for the pickers, working within their fixed budgets to find something from the 19th century. This week one picker’s creativity and...

INDEPENDENT LENS

LIVES WORTH LIVING MONDAY, DECEMBER 17 @ 8:00PM People with disabilities are one of the largest minorities in the United States. But for most of American history, they occupied a sub-class of millions without access to everyday things most citizens take for granted: schools, apartment buildings, public transportation, and more. Some were forcibly sterilized under state laws. Others were...