THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT
SATURDAY, MARCH 1 @ 10:30PM
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. introduces actors Debra Messing & Melanie Lynskey to ancestors who made bold decisions that forever reshaped their family trees. Moving from shtetls in Eastern Europe to a fruit stand in NY City to the wilds of New Zealand, Gates introduces his guests to relatives who took great risks, overcame enormous hardships—and unwittingly transformed the lives of their descendants.
POMPEII’S SECRET UNDERWORLD
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POMPEII’S SECRET UNDERWORLD
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22 @ 10:00PM
For over two centuries, archaeologists have hailed Pompeii as a sophisticated city at the heart of an advanced ancient civilization. But a series of new excavations is painting a much more complex picture of the city tragically buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in the year 79. New archaeological finds.
WHAT YOU’RE HERE FOR
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21 @ 11:30PM
Singer Ruston Kelly meets Melissa Smith, who runs a performing arts program supporting intellectually disabled adults. Bonding over their pasts, Ruston writes a ballad celebrating Melissa’s work and the good we can do when we realize our purpose.
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF MISS SCOTT
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM
Learn about jazz virtuoso and screen superstar Hazel Scott, the first Black American to have their own television show. An early civil rights pioneer, she faced down the Red Scare at the risk of losing her career and was a champion for equality. The film features interviews with Mickey Guyton, Tracie Thoms, Amanda Seales, and Sheryl Lee Ralph as the voice of Hazel Scott.
EPISODE 3
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20 @ 11:00PM
A girls’ trip to the pub proves both cathartic and fruitful, inspiring Sophie’s brilliant new sitcom idea while repairing her fractured friendship with Marj. Later, Bill’s arrest provides further opportunity for growth.
ON MASTERPIECE
GLASS HALF FULL
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20 @ 7:00PM
James has a bout of brucellosis, bringing long buried emotions to the surface. A broken-down car forces Siegfried and Tristan to renegotiate their relationship with amusing consequences.
MUSEUM ALIVE
WITH DAVID ATTENBOROUGH
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19 @ 6:00PM & 10:00PM
Sir David Attenborough takes us on a journey through London’s world-famous Natural History Museum, revealing it as it’s never been seen before, in a compelling tale of discovery and adventure. As the doors are locked and night falls, Attenborough meets the extinct creatures that fascinate him the most, as they magically come alive in front of his eyes; dinosaurs, ice age beasts and giant reptiles.
BATTLE FOR TIBET
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18 @ 8:00PM & 12:00AM
Investigating China’s rule over Tibet. With footage from inside the region, how the Communist regime controls Tibet’s Buddhist population, and the battle over the succession of its spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.
A PEOPLE ON THE MOVE
COMING TO AMERICA
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24 @ 6:00PM
Hear the story of African and Caribbean immigrants in the United States and examine their profound impact on American culture and what it means to be Black in America.
SKIN OF GLASS
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17 @ 8:00PM
A journey to reckon with Brazil’s harsh inequality begins when filmmaker Denise Zmekhol discovers her father’s architectural masterpiece in Sao Paulo – a 24-story tall modernist icon known as “Pele de Vidro” (Skin of Glass) – is inhabited by hundreds of unhoused people. But after getting to know these occupants, what started as a personal quest becomes something much bigger.