LOU REED

ROCK AND ROLL HEART AN “AMERICAN MASTERS” SPECIAL THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31 @ 8:00PM For thirty-five years Lou Reed has been at the forefront of the avant-garde in popular music. His gritty and realistic vision made him a cultural icon of the disenfranchised urban youth of the 1960s and 1970s. A counterpoint to the booming impersonal economy of the 1980s and 1990s, Reed has asserted a...

NOVA

MAKING STUFF COLDER SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3 @ 6:00PM Cold is the new hot in this brave new world. For centuries we’ve fought it, shunned it, and huddled against it. Cold has always been the enemy of life, but now it may hold the key to a new generation of science and technology that will improve our lives. In “Making Stuff Colder,” David Pogue explores the frontiers of cold science...

THE AFRICAN AMERICANS

THE MANY RIVERS TO CROSS THE AGE OF SLAVERY (1800-1860) TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29 @ 9:00PM The Age of Slavery illustrates how black lives changed dramatically in the aftermath of the American Revolution. For free black people in places like Philadelphia, these years were a time of tremendous opportunity. But for most African Americans, this era represented a new nadir. The cotton industry fueled the...

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

WAR OF THE WORLDS TUESDAY. OCTOBER 29 @ 7:00PM & 12:00AM Shortly after 8 p.m. on the Halloween Eve, 1938, the voice of a panicked radio announcer broke in with a news bulletin reporting strange explosions taking place on the planet Mars, followed minutes later by a report that Martians had landed in the tiny town of Grovers Mill, New Jersey. Although most listeners understood that the...

INDEPENDENT LENS

THE GRADUATES MONDAY, OCTOBER 26 @ 8:00PM The Graduates/Los Graduados explores pressing issues in education today through the eyes of six Latino and Latina students from across the United States. More than a survey of contemporary policy debates, the bilingual, two-part film offers first-hand perspectives on key challenges facing Latino high school students and their families, educators, and...