NOVA

EARTH FROM SPACE WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26 @ 7:00PM & 12:00AM “Earth From Space” is a groundbreaking two-hour special that reveals a spectacular new space-based vision of our planet. Produced in extensive consultation with NASA scientists, NOVA takes data from earth-observing satellites and transforms it into dazzling visual sequences, each one exposing the intricate and surprising web...

FRONTLINE

CLIFFHANGER FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14 @ 7:00PM FRONTLINE investigates the inside history of how Washington has failed to solve the country’s problems of debt and deficit. Drawing on interviews with key players in Congress and the White House, FRONTLINE shows how a clash of politics and personalities has taken the nation’s economy to the edge of the “fiscal cliff,” and now to a second...

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER SATURDAY, JUNE 22 @ 9:00PM “The Rockefellers” is the saga of four generations of a legendary American family whose name is synonymous with great wealth. The story begins in the Christian revivalist fervor of the 1830s with a marriage of opposites: Eliza Davison, a pious young woman, and “Devil Bill” Rockefeller, swindler, snake-oil salesman, and...

WASHINGTON WEEK

WITH GWEN IFILL FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8 @ 9:00PM This Week: Drone Strikes, S&P Lawsuit and GOP Reinvention A confidential Justice Department memo explaining the justification for targeting U.S. citizens involved with terrorist groups overseas with drone strikes became public this week.  After a number of legal experts and lawmakers raised concerns about the legality ofthe operation, the White...

SHAKESPEARE UNCOVERED

HAMLET WITH DAVID TENNANT FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8 @ 7:00PM & 12:00AM To be, or not to be: that is the question. David Tennant meets fellow actors who’ve taken on Hamlet and compares notes on how to play a character that’s been played, probably, a million different ways. An acclaimed Hamlet in a recent Royal Shakespeare Company production, Tennant looks into the text about the doomed Danish...