WASHINGTON WEEK

WITH GWEN IFILL FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21 @ 9:00PM President Obama’s executive action to overhaul of the nation’s immigration enforcement system will allow as many as five million undocumented immigrants to stay in the country without threat of deportation. The plan will also expand the current “Dreamers” program that protects immigrants who came to the U.S. illegally as children,...

GREAT PERFORMANCES

CATS SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22 @ 6:00PM Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats, the second longest-running Broadway musical (only surpassed by Lloyd Webber’s own “The Phantom of the Opera”), and fourth longest-running West End musical, returns in high definition and digital sound to Great Performances where it had its 1998 world television premiere. The special encore presentation will air Friday,...

NOVA

KILLER LANDSLIDES WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 @ 10:00PM Just before 11 a.m. on March 22, 2014, an ominous rumble startled the residents of the community of Oso, Washington, about an hour’s drive from Seattle. It was the terrifying sound of what would become the United States’ deadliest landslide in decades. The equivalent of one million dump truck loads of earth came plummeting down the...

NATURE

INVASION OF THE KILLER WHALES SUNDAYDAY, DECEMBER 3 @ 9:00PM A shift of power is taking place at the top of the world. The Arctic is undergoing a dramatic change, and with this change one iconic Arctic hunter may soon have to give way to another as solid ice turns to open sea. The polar bear, once king of the North, needs ice to stalk its prey. Killer whales, or orca, on the other hand, are...

COLD WAR ROADSHOW

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18 @ 10:00PM In the fall of 1959, at the height of the Cold War, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev toured the United States for 12 days at the invitation of President Dwight Eisenhower. For both men, the visit was an opportunity to halt the escalating threats of the Cold War and potentially chart a new course toward peaceful coexistence. For the American...