AMERICAN MASTERS

TANAQUIL LE CLERCQ: AFTERNOON OF A FAUN SATURDAY, JUNE 21 @ 10:00PM This film excerpt from American Masters — Tanaquil Le Clercq: Afternoon of a Faun opens with footage of Le Clercq performing in Concerto Barocco, a George Balanchine masterpiece, choreographed to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. The two lead female roles represent the lead violins of Bach’s composition, Concerto in D...

FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED

DESIGNING AMERICA SATURDAY, JUNE 21 @ 6:00PM Frederick Law Olmsted was among the first to regard landscape architecture as a profession and a fine art – in fact, with Calvert Vaux he virtually created that profession. Olmsted was also, far and away, the most eminent and successful person ever to practice it in this country. He was co-designer of Central Park, head of the first Yosemite...

WASHINGTON WEEK

WITH GWEN IFILL FRIDAY, JUNE 20 @ 9:00PM President Obama announced on Thursday that the U.S. is preparing to send up to 300 additional U.S. military advisors to Iraq to support Iraqi security forces combating the ISIS insurgency. The president said the U.S. will also provide additional equipment, surveillance and military assets but added, “American combat troops are not going to be...

PBS PREVIEWS

THE ROOSEVELTS TUESDAY, JUNE 17 @ 9:00PM Join Patricia Clarkson for a exclusive behind-the-scenes PBS Preview of Ken Burns’ new seven-part series – THE ROOSEVELTS: AN INTIMATE HISTORY. Follow the camera crews into the grand estates and intimate cottages of the Roosevelts and visit the studio as Burns records the voices of the stars who read the diaries, letters and contemporary...

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

FREEDOM RIDERS SATURDAY, APRIL 1 @ 9:00PM FREEDOM RIDERS is the powerful harrowing and ultimately inspirational story of six months in 1961 that changed America forever. From May until November 1961, more than 400 black and white Americans risked their lives—and many endured savage beatings and imprisonment—for simply traveling together on buses and trains as they journeyed through the Deep...