GREAT PERFORMANCES

VIENNA PHILHARMONIC SUMMER NIGHT CONCERT 2014 SATURDAY, AUGUST 23 @ 6:00PM Led for the first time by a guest conductor Christoph Eschenbach, the world-renowned Vienna Philharmonic returns for their 11th open-air concert in the magnificent gardens of Austria’s Imperial Schönbrunn Palace, a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site. The Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2014 airs on...

WASHINGTON WEEK

WITH GWEN IFILL FRIDAY, AUGUST 22 @ 9:00PM Simmering racial tensions on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri and U.S. military action in Iraq were just two of the issues President Obama addressed during his vacation on Martha’s Vineyard this week. Calm is slowly returning to the streets of Ferguson where clashes between police and protestors upset over the shooting death of an unarmed teenager...

THE SEARCH FOR JOSIAH HENSON

THE MAN BEHIND THE STORY OF UNCLE TOM’S CABIN TUESDAY, AUGUST 19 @ 9:00PM Josiah Henson’s 1849 autobiography inspired Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” and galvanized abolitionists. But for 30 years, he was enslaved here, on what was once a 270-acre plantation run by Isaac Riley. An acre of land and an old house are all that remain. Time Team America descends...

THE BONES OF BADGER HOLE

A TIME TEAM AMERICA PRESENTATION TUESDAY, AUGUST 19 @ 7:00PM & 12:00AM At Badger Hole, Oklahoma, the Time Team America crew excavates what may be the largest Folsom-period bison kill site in North America. Long extinct, Bison Antiquus roamed the plains 10,000 years ago. How were Paleoindian hunters able to kill so many of these massive bison—weighing 1500 pounds each—without the help of...

POV

A WORLD NOT OURS MONDAY, AUGUST 18 @ 8:00PM A World Not Ours is a passionate, bittersweet account of one family’s multi-generational experience living as permanent refugees. Now a Danish resident, director Mahdi Fleifel grew up in the Ain el-Helweh refugee camp in southern Lebanon, established in 1948 as a temporary refuge for exiled Palestinians. Today, the camp houses 70,000 people and...