WASHINGTON WEEK

FRIDAY, AUGUST 25 @ 9:00PM President Donald Trump debriefed the country this week on his plan to expand the U.S. role in the 16-year-old war in Afghanistan.   The president offered few specifics in terms of a timeline or how many additional troops will be deployed. The strategy is a sharp reversal from Mr. Trump’s campaign promise to pull out of Afghanistan.     The president’s week...

GREAT PERFORMANCES

AT THE MET LA TRAVIATA FRIDAY, AUGUST 25 @ 7:00PM & 12:00AM Hear Sonya Yoncheva sing the tragic courtesan Violetta in Verdi’s classic, with Michael Fabiano as her ardent lover Alfredo and Thomas Hampson as his disapproving father Germont, in a revival of Willy Decker’s staging conducted by Nicola Luisotti. FIND OUT MORE...

OKLAHOMA CITY

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE THURSDAY, AUGUST 24 @ 9:00PM Follow the rise of the extremist militia movement, from Ruby Ridge to Waco, that led to the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in American history?the 1995 bombing by Timothy McVeigh that killed 168 people in Oklahoma City. FIND OUT MORE...

THE FARTHEST

VOYAGER IN SPACE WEDNESDAY, JULY 31 @ 11:00PM THE FARTHEST tells the captivating tales of the people and events behind one of humanity’s greatest achievements in exploration: NASA’s Voyager mission, which celebrates its 40th anniversary this August. The twin spacecraft—each with less computing power than a cell phone—used slingshot trajectories to visit Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and...

DIANA

HER STORY THURSDAY, AUGUST 31 @ 7:00PM Twenty years after Princess Diana’s death, this new film reveals her story in her own words. What emerges is the narrative of a shy young girl who stepped onto the world stage in 1980 and departed in 1997 as its most famous woman. FIND OUT MORE...