WSKG4 OCTOBER 2021 EXPANDED LISTINGS

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WSKG4

OCTOBER 2021 EXPANDED LISTINGS

1 Friday

8pm Citizen Hearst: An American Experience Special

Part Two

Follow William Randolph Hearst's continued rise to power and expansion into Hollywood. The model for Citizen Kane, he had a decades-long affair with actress Marion Davies, built an enormous castle at San Simeon, and forever

transformed modern media.

10pm PBS NewsHour 11pm Dw The Day

11:30pm BBC World News 12am In Their Own Words Elon Musk

Revel in the life story of a thrilling 21st century Iron Man come alive. See how Musk went from bullied boy to young innovator to self-taught rocket scientist, ultimately becoming one of the richest men in the world.

2 Saturday

8pm Nova

The Cannabis Question Cannabis contains chemicals which mimic ones found in our brain. One is THC, which produces the high associated with pot use. Another, called CBD, shows promise for treating seizures, addiction, and insomnia. NOVA joins scientists and experts around the country. What risks does

cannabis pose to the

developing adolescent brain?

Does heavy cannabis use impair intelligence, increase psychosis, or even put future generations at risk for addiction? As cannabis becomes socially accepted, scientists are racing to understand the long-term health consequences.

9pm Latino Americans War and Peace

Trace the World War II years and those that follow, as Latino Americans serve their new country by the hundreds of thousands - yet still face discrimination and a fight for civil rights in the United States.

10pm America ReFramed The Unafraid

Banned from attending Georgia's top five public universities and from paying in-state tuition at other public colleges in the state, DACA (Deferred Action for

Childhood Arrivals) students like Alejandro, Silvia, and Aldo unite through their activist work with an immigrants' rights group. A humanizing portrait of undocumented students and their families, we enter their homes and learn of their struggles, as working families like theirs support their sons and daughters in pursuit of their dreams for life, liberty, and happiness.

11:30pm Reel South Santuario

After 25 years of living in the

United States, Guatemalan grandmother Juana Ortega is threatened with deportation and soon takes sanctuary in a small North Carolina church.

As time passes, and state lawmakers continue to ignore the family's pleas for a stay on her deportation, Juana's spirits slowly sink. And yet, Juana is patient that in God's house, God will answer her prayers.

12am Nova

The Cannabis Question Cannabis contains chemicals which mimic ones found in our brain. One is THC, which produces the high associated with pot use. Another, called CBD, shows promise for treating seizures, addiction, and insomnia. NOVA joins scientists and experts around the country. What risks does cannabis pose to the

developing adolescent brain?

Does heavy cannabis use impair intelligence, increase psychosis, or even put future generations at risk for addiction? As cannabis becomes socially accepted, scientists are racing to understand the long-term health consequences.

3 Sunday

8pm Muhammad Ali Round Four: The Spell Remains (1974-2016) Muhammad Ali shocks the world by defeating George Foreman, winning back the heavyweight title and becoming the most famous

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man on earth. After retiring in 1981, he travels the world spreading his Islamic faith, and becomes a symbol of peace and hope.

10pm Doc World The Guardians

The iconic monarch butterflies and an indigenous Mexican community depend on the same ancient forest for their survival...but they face uncertainty. Journey through the butterfly dense

mountaintops of Michoacan as the people of Donaciano Ojeda face illegal loggers and internal divisions while struggling to build a sustainable path forward.

11pm Rise and Fall of the Brown Buffalo

The Rise and Fall of the Brown Buffalo is an innovative look into the life of radical Chicano lawyer, author, and countercultural icon, Oscar Zeta Acosta - best known for his volatile friendship with legendary journalist- provocateur, Hunter S.

Thompson. The author of two groundbreaking

autobiographical novels, Acosta's powerful literary voice, brash courtroom style and notorious revolutionary antics made him a revered figure within the Chicano movement, and offered one of the most brazen, frontal assaults on white supremacy seen at the time. Yet in hindsight, Acosta is more known as Thompson's bumbling Samoan sidekick in

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas than for his own work exposing racial bias,

hypocrisy, and repression within the California justice system. This film sets out to right this historical wrong, giving Acosta his due place as an imperfect, but larger- than-life figure in American history. Channeling the spirit of the psychedelic 60s and the joyful irreverence of Gonzo journalism, the film also shows Acosta's personal and creative evolution play out against the backdrop of a society in turmoil. From his origins in segregated rural California, to his stint as a Baptist missionary in

Panama, his radicalization in the Chicano movement of the 60s, to his mysterious disappearance in Mexico in 1974, director Phillip Rodriguez offers us a

complex figure emblematic of a generation. Relevant now more than ever, this untold story probes issues of racial identity, criminal justice, and media representation, while revealing the personal story of a troubled and brilliant man coming to terms with his identity and finding meaning in the struggles of his people.

12am Re-Evolution: The Cuban Dream

Diving into the streets of Havana, RE-EVOLUTION:

THE CUBAN DREAM

introduces a social worker, an ethnographer, and three artists. Their stories provide

unique perspectives on how Cuba is shaped by an ongoing culture of revolution that is more nuanced than meets the eye. This program is the first in an eventual four- part series which will explore pillars of Cuban society that are drastically evolving today.

12:30am Re-Evolution: The Embargo

RE-EVOLUTION: THE EMBARGO examines the ongoing impact of the U.S.

embargo against Cuba, a longstanding prohibition on economic exchange that is known to Cubans as "el bloqueo." The film interviews people from both countries - including online fashion retailer Idania del RÃ- o, historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, and former U.S.

secretary of commerce Carlos Gutierrez - about the impact of "el bloqueo" on people trying to make their livelihood in Cuba today.

4 Monday

8pm Walter Tevis: A Writer's Gambit WALTER TEVIS: A

WRITER'S GAMBIT explores the complex life and brilliant career of this Kentucky writer.

His novels The Hustler, The Man Who Fell to Earth and The Color of Money were all adapted into major motion pictures, and The Queen's Gambit has become one of the most popular and

critically-acclaimed television series of the past decade.

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9pm The Good Road Richmond, Virginia: Hidden In Plain Sight

After the killing of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, the city of Richmond, Virginia -- former capital of the Confederacy -- became a focus of international attention. Earl Bridges and Craig Martin speak with influential members of the community who are hoping to bridge the gap of racial inequality and negativity.

Dontrese Brown, a young, networked black entrepreneur shared his Hidden in Plain Site project (HiPS) which marries 360 video with historic images to shed light on famous and infamous sights in Richmond. Curator Valerie Oliver at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts talks about the impact and importance of Kehinde Wiley?s iconic statue,

?Rumors of War? a hip-hop inspired replica of the J.E.B.

Stuart statue, and the

renaming of The Boulevard to Arthur Ashe Boulevard. The purpose of these alterations is to set aside old and painful reminders of Richmond?s slave past, embracing a positive era of racial reconciliation and hope.

9:30pm Stories from the Stage

Courage

When you take a stand with your resolve unwavering, that rapidly beating heart signals courage. In the wake of a

broken romance, Vanessa Valerio embraces adventure in Paris; when her writing is criticized, Anna Willis-Collier steps up to become a

dyslexia advocate; and Adam Selbst faces down a tiger - and his mother. Three stories, three interpretations of COURAGE, hosted by Theresa Okokon.

11:30pm BBC World News 12am The Book Makers THE BOOK MAKERS profiles an eclectic group of people who have dedicated their lives to answering the question:

what should books become in the digital age? From the esoteric world of book artists to the digital libraries of the Internet Archive, the film spins a tale of the enduring vitality of the book. This engaging documentary captures the painstaking but pleasurable process of creating hand- crafted books, in a diverse range of styles and mediums.

The film travels from New York to Germany's Black Forest, culminating at the Codex Book Fair in San Francisco, where the cast of characters congregates to sell their books to collectors from universities and the Library of Congress, and to curious buyers from around the world.

Along the way, THE BOOK MAKERS highlights the talent, dedication and skill of these book artists, and reframes the concept and purpose of the

book itself.

5 Tuesday

8pm America ReFramed Five Years North

FIVE YEARS NORTH is the story of America's immigration system through the eyes of Luis and Judy. Luis is an undocumented Guatemalan boy who arrives alone in New York City with little support and many responsibilities.

Judy is a veteran ICE agent with Cuban American and Puerto Rican roots, who must weigh the human cost of her work against the future her family would face without her paycheck.

9:30pm Becoming Johanna When Johanna, a 16-year-old transgender Latina, begins her transition and gets kicked out of her home and school, she finds a foster family who loves her and a supportive school principal who helps her graduate and thrive.

11:30pm BBC World News 12am America ReFramed Five Years North

Judy is a veteran ICE agent with Cuban American and Puerto Rican roots, who must weigh the human cost of her

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work against the future her family would face without her paycheck.

6 Wednesday

8:30pm POV Fruits of Labor

Ashley, a Mexican American teenager, dreams of

graduating high school and going to college. But when ICE raids threaten her family, Ashley is forced to become the breadwinner, working days in strawberry fields and nights at a food processing company.

11:30pm BBC World News 12am Independent Lens Harvest Season

Spend an agricultural year in Napa Valley and meet some of the unsung people who play a critical role in making some of the world's most celebrated wines, yet whose stories have largely gone untold.

7 Thursday

8pm Impossible Builds Skinny Skyscraper

In Manhattan, architects and engineers are redefining just how much land it takes to support a skyscraper. In a city where the only direction to build is up, they've designed a needle-thin tower 82 stories high, built on the construction equivalent of a postage stamp.

9pm Impossible Builds The Scorpion Tower

Follow the construction of one

of the most complex skyscrapers ever to make it off the drawing board. Its design is so radical that construction experts have turned to a building material never before used in skyscrapers.

11:30pm BBC World News 12am Nova

Particles Unknown What's the commonest-yet most elusive and least understood-particle in the universe? The neutrino.

Starting with the invention of the nuclear bomb, billions of dollars have been spent in pursuit of this so-called ghost particle. Outnumbering atoms a billion to one, neutrons are preposterously plentiful, they hardly interact with anything, and they mystifyingly morph between three different forms.

What's going on here? NOVA joins an international team of neutrino hunters as they try to capture an elusive fourth form of neutrino. The results of their investigation may force scientists to redraw their well- established blueprint of the subatomic world, the Standard Model of physics, and change our

understanding of how the universe works.

8 Friday

8pm American Masters Rita Moreno: Just A Girl Who Decided to Go for It

Discover how Moreno defied

her humble upbringing and racism to become one of a select group of Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Award winners. Explore her 70-year career with new interviews, clips of her iconic roles and scenes of the star on set today.

11:30pm BBC World News 12am Ivy League Rumba IVY LEAGUE RUMBA is a one-hour documentary showcasing today's Latin rhythms, which fuse temporary grooves with the power of traditionally rooted sounds. Filmed at the 2015 Brown University Latin Jazz and Pop Festival in

Providence, R.I., the program captures the magical

spontaneity of some of Latin music's top performers and explores the Latino influence on mainstream American music and world culture. The documentary, narrated by renowned Afro-Cuban music historian Emilio San Pedro, highlights the vital musical exchanges between Cuba and the United States that have been blurring cultural lines for the past century, and emphasizes the newly intensified political and artistic rapprochement between the two countries.

9 Saturday

8pm POV Neurotypical

"Neurotypical" is an

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exploration of autism from the point of view of autistic people themselves. Four-year-old Violet, teenaged Nicholas and adult Paula occupy different positions on the autism spectrum, but they are all at pivotal moments in their lives.

How they and the people around them work out their perceptual and behavioral differences becomes a remarkable reflection of the

"neurotypical" world -- the world of the non-autistic -- revealing inventive

adaptations on each side and an emerging critique of both what it means to be normal and what it means to be human.

9pm Latino Americans The New Latinos

Review the decades after World War II through the early 1960s, as swelling numbers of immigrants from Puerto Rico, Cuba and the Dominican Republic seek economic opportunities.

10pm America ReFramed Five Years North

Judy is a veteran ICE agent with Cuban American and Puerto Rican roots, who must weigh the human cost of her work against the future her family would face without her

paycheck.

11:30pm Becoming Johanna

When Johanna, a 16-year-old transgender Latina, begins her transition and gets kicked out of her home and school, she finds a foster family who loves her and a supportive school principal who helps her graduate and thrive.

12am POV Neurotypical

"Neurotypical" is an

exploration of autism from the point of view of autistic people themselves. Four-year-old Violet, teenaged Nicholas and adult Paula occupy different positions on the autism spectrum, but they are all at pivotal moments in their lives.

How they and the people around them work out their perceptual and behavioral differences becomes a remarkable reflection of the

"neurotypical" world -- the world of the non-autistic -- revealing inventive

adaptations on each side and an emerging critique of both what it means to be normal and what it means to be human.

10 Sunday

8pm The Hispanic Heritage Awards

34th

Celebrate the recipients of the 34th annual Hispanic Heritage Awards. The evening includes performances and

appearances by some of the country's most celebrated

Hispanic artists and visionaries.

9pm Finding Your Roots To The Manor Born Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

discovers the privileged lineages that claim actor Glenn Close and director John Waters as descendants, introducing ancestors who are as bold and independent as they are.

10pm Doc World Visitor's Day

Juan Carlos ran away from an abusive home and lived on the streets of Mexico City before finding his way to a group home for abandoned and homeless boys. Here the staff ensure they receive education, training and emotional support. Follow Juan Carlos as he finds the strength to overcome his sense of abandonment and forgive his father for the past.

11:30pm Reel South Santuario

After 25 years of living in the United States, Guatemalan grandmother Juana Ortega is threatened with deportation and soon takes sanctuary in a small North Carolina church.

As time passes, and state lawmakers continue to ignore the family's pleas for a stay on her deportation, Juana's spirits slowly sink. And yet, Juana is patient that in God's house, God will answer her prayers.

12am The Hispanic Heritage Awards

34th

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Celebrate the recipients of the 34th annual Hispanic Heritage Awards. The evening includes performances and

appearances by some of the country's most celebrated Hispanic artists and visionaries.

11 Monday

8pm 4 Wheel Bob

4 WHEEL BOB tells the story of Bob Coomber, an intrepid adventurer who sets out to becone the first wheelchair hiker to cross the 11,845 foot Kearsarge Pass in the Sierra Nevada of California. The one-hour documentary follows the inspirational journey of Bob while encouraging us to look at our own self-imposed limitations and perhaps reach beyond what we think is possible.

9pm The Good Road Charleston, S.C.: Voice As Freedom

The local free and independent press has become marginalized by national news sources conglomerated along political and ideological lines, and many have been under attack for asking hard questions.

Earl Bridges and Craig Martin meet up with Adam Parker, a journalist at the Charleston Post and Courier, the oldest daily news source in the South. They explore

Charleston?s race relations, religion and government, and discuss the fate of journalism and the role of journalists to

make positive societal change. In 2018, the New York Times reported on the Charleston Rifle Club and their refusal to admit Dr.

Melvin Brown, who would have been the first black member, after Adam broke the story locally.

Conversations with Dr. Brown and Toby Smith of the Mcleod Plantation?s African American Experience of plantations provide further insight into racial inequities and the negative impact of revisionist histories. Earl and Craig also sit down with Ricky Dennis, one of a handful of black journalists at the Post and Courier. Ricky and his mentor Adam Parker address past issues but also provide a way forward. The hope for progressive and positive change lies not only in stories told by independent news outlets, but also in a new, diverse mix of reporters telling those stories.

First Impressions 10pm PBS NewsHour 11pm Dw The Day

11:30pm BBC World News 12am Touching The Sound Undeterred by his lifelong blindness, pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii has an extraordinary ability to connect with audiences around the world, transcending cultural obstacles and inspiring concert-goers and music critics with a feeling Time

magazine coined "Nobu Fever." TOUCHING THE SOUND traces the artistic development of this

remarkable young musician, from an early ability to play piano by ear, to his gold medal triumph in the 2009 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, to his debut at Carnegie Hall. The documentary also follows Tsujii as he tours the tsunami- devastated coastline of Tohoku, Japan, hoping to bring solace through his music to those impacted by the 2011 catastrophe, which killed 20,000 people and displaced hundreds of thousands of families.

Featuring plentiful clips of Tsujii performing throughout his childhood, and set against the music of Chopin,

Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, Liszt and Tsujii's own uplifting compositions, TOUCHING THE SOUND highlights the power of music in overcoming hardship.

12 Tuesday

8pm America ReFramed We Like It Like That We Like it Like That tells the story of Latin boogaloo is New York City. It is a product of the melting pot, a colorful

expression of 1960s Latino soul, straight from the streets of El Barrio, the South Bronx and Brooklyn. Starring Latin boogaloo legends like Joe Bataan, Johnny Colon and Pete Rodriguez, We Like It

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Like That explores this lesser- known, but pivotal moment in Latin music history, through original interviews, music recordings, live performances, dancing and rare archival footage and images. From its origins to its recent

resurgence in popularity, We Like It Like That tells the story of a sound that redefined a generation and was too funky to keep down.

9:30pm Salsa! The Dance Sensation

Dubbed by many the most popular social dance in the world, it is practiced today by people of all ages, ethnicities, and cultures. In South Florida, this Latin-flavored dance, infused with Caribbean and African roots, is performed with distinct passion and artistry. From the nightclubs to the performance halls, from senior centers to salsa schools, the dance that began as a folk tradition has

exploded into the mainstream.

Today, an array of stories, histories, and traditions are recounted on dance floors across the region. From Casino-style to Colombian, from Puerto Rican to Dominican, the varied styles of the dance help delineate cultural identities, while also creating connections and friendships. Today, this Latin- flavored dance, infused with Caribbean and African rhythms, is performed with a distinct passion and artistry.

From nightclubs to

performance halls, from senior centers to salsa schools, the dance that began as a folk tradition has

Narrated by singer, songwriter and record producer Willy Chirino, SALSA! THE DANCE SENSATION delves into the dance as an art form, as a bonding agent, and as a chronicler of history and family tradition. From the top performers at the Miami Salsa Congress to salsa school students, the documentary reveals the compelling stories behind this cultural

phenomenon. From Casino- style to Colombian, from Puerto Rican to Dominican, the varied forms of the dance help delineate cultural identities, while also creating connections and friendships.

11:30pm BBC World News 12am America ReFramed We Like It Like That We Like it Like That tells the story of Latin boogaloo is New York City. It is a product of the melting pot, a colorful

expression of 1960s Latino soul, straight from the streets of El Barrio, the South Bronx and Brooklyn. Starring Latin boogaloo legends like Joe Bataan, Johnny Colon and Pete Rodriguez, We Like It Like That explores this lesser- known, but pivotal moment in Latin music history, through original interviews, music recordings, live performances,

dancing and rare archival footage and images. From its origins to its recent

13 Wednesday

8pm Independent Lens Cured

When homosexuality was considered a mental illness to be "cured," renegade

LGBTQ+ activists fought a powerful psychiatry

establishment that had things dangerously backwards.

9pm Frontline Taliban Takeover The Taliban take over

Afghanistan, and the threat of ISIS and Al Qaeda intensifies.

On the ground, reporter Najibullah Quraishi

investigates uncertainty and fear among the Afghan people and revisits the lead up to the U.S. defeat and Taliban's return.

11:30pm BBC World News 12am Raising The Future:

The Child Care Crisis PBS NewsHour explores the burden costly childcare places on families, travels to cities and states experimenting with new ways of providing childcare, and delves into the political battle brewing over the idea of federally funded universal childcare.

14 Thursday

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8pm Impossible Builds Ice World

Over the top, ambitious and nature-defying -China's incredible Ice World will transform37 acres of sub- tropical quarry into a sub-zero ski resort. The construction team will have to battle the worst nature can throw at them. But If they can pull it off -they'll make science fiction a reality.

9pm Impossible Builds Europe in the Desert Can six sand islands, poking out of the Persian Gulf near Dubai, be transformed into the most luxurious holiday destination on earth? One man believes they can and he's risking tens of millions of dollars to prove it.

Arctic Drift

Journey to the top of the world with scientists as they embark on the most ambitious Arctic research expedition of all time. The Arctic - a vast frozen ocean, shrouded in darkness for half the year - is warming at twice the rate as the rest of the globe. Since the northern ice cap acts as a cooling system for the entire planet, what happens in the Arctic doesn't stay in the Arctic. As the ice cap melts, the world warms faster, disrupting weather patterns, diverting ocean currents, and endangering biodiversity. Yet

because the Arctic is so inaccessible and inhospitable, establishing exactly what's going on and forecasting its future have proven elusive.

Now, Arctic Drift takes viewers on a groundbreaking expedition that will bring vital new clarity to scientists' predictions of global change.

Experts from twenty different nations join the voyage of the 12, 000-ton Polarstern icebreaker as it's gripped by the polar ice and drifts for an entire year. From this unique research station, they can make previously impossible long-term observations and experiments. But long hours in this harsh environment bring their own challenges, including hungry polar bears, perilous sea ice cracks, and equipment failure. With breathtaking cinematography, heart-wrenching personal stories, and high stakes science, Arctic Drift follows the scientists in their risky race against time to

understand the Arctic before it changes our world forever.

15 Friday

8pm Inheritance

Meet three women who are geneticlly predisposed to breast cancer. Follow Alejandra, Lilith and Bonnie as they undergo life-altering medical procedures in the hope of reducing their risk -- and saving their lives.

11:30pm BBC World News 12am Journey Through Breast Cancer

Communication throughout cancer care is increasingly important but little

understood. This film is adapted from years of research and demonstrates the power of communicating about illness, a medical team's sustained ability to rely on communication when providing quality care, and possibilities for improving patient outcomes. This documentary is designed to raise public awareness, provide an innovative

resource across diverse fields of education, and stimulate critical discussions about the ongoing need for enhanced health communication when facing illness and disease.

16 Saturday

8pm Voces On PBS Letters to Eloisa A haunting portrait of a writer's life and struggle for artistic freedom, meet Cuba's Jose Lezama Lima, an all but forgotten figure of the Latin American literary boom that included Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Octavio Paz and Mario Vargas Llosa.

9pm Latino Americans Pride and Prejudice Witness the creation of the proud "Chicano" identity as labor leaders organize farm workers in California, and as activists push for better education opportunities for

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Latinos, the inclusion of Latino studies and

empowerment in the political process.

10pm America ReFramed We Like It Like That We Like it Like That tells the story of Latin boogaloo is New York City. It is a product of the melting pot, a colorful

expression of 1960s Latino soul, straight from the streets of El Barrio, the South Bronx and Brooklyn. Starring Latin boogaloo legends like Joe Bataan, Johnny Colon and Pete Rodriguez, We Like It Like That explores this lesser- known, but pivotal moment in Latin music history, through original interviews, music recordings, live performances, dancing and rare archival footage and images. From its origins to its recent

11:30pm Salsa! The Dance Sensation

Dubbed by many the most popular social dance in the world, it is practiced today by people of all ages, ethnicities, and cultures. In South Florida, this Latin-flavored dance, infused with Caribbean and African roots, is performed with distinct passion and artistry. From the nightclubs to the performance halls, from senior centers to salsa schools, the dance that began as a folk tradition has

Today, an array of stories, histories, and traditions are recounted on dance floors across the region. From Casino-style to Colombian, from Puerto Rican to Dominican, the varied styles of the dance help delineate cultural identities, while also creating connections and friendships. Today, this Latin- flavored dance, infused with Caribbean and African rhythms, is performed with a distinct passion and artistry.

From nightclubs to performance halls, from senior centers to salsa schools, the dance that began as a folk tradition has

Narrated by singer, songwriter and record producer Willy Chirino, SALSA! THE DANCE SENSATION delves into the dance as an art form, as a bonding agent, and as a chronicler of history and family tradition. From the top performers at the Miami Salsa Congress to salsa school students, the documentary reveals the compelling stories behind this cultural

phenomenon. From Casino- style to Colombian, from Puerto Rican to Dominican, the varied forms of the dance help delineate cultural identities, while also creating connections and friendships.

12am Voces On PBS Letters to Eloisa A haunting portrait of a writer's life and struggle for

artistic freedom, meet Cuba's Jose Lezama Lima, an all but forgotten figure of the Latin American literary boom that included Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Octavio Paz and Mario Vargas Llosa.

17 Sunday

8pm Nature

Animal Odd Couples

Uncover the variety of activity, both human and natural, that occurs on the slopes of active volcanoes. See the surprising number of animals that survive and thrive alongside these fiery natural

phenomena.

9pm Finding Your Roots The Shirts On Their Backs Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

reveals the immigrant roots of actors Tony Shalhoub and Christopher Meloni, introducing ancestors who came to America to build a better life.

10pm Doc World Cocaine Prison

COCAINE PRISON follows the lives of three indigenous Bolivians who work at the lowest levels of the cocaine trade. Two inmates of an overcrowded prison film their daily experiences, while one inmate's sister must decide whether to traffic cocaine or become the first person in her family to pursue a college education. Cocaine Prison bridges the ever widening gap between the North and the South and brings a new perspective to the War on

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Drugs being waged in the Andes.

11:30pm Morfar's View of the Winds

In 1842 the first published image of the Rocky Mountains was drawn by Charles Preuss, perched atop a rock deep in the Wind River Range of Wyoming. This image, combined with John Fremont's expedition report, paved the way for the Great Western Expansion including the California Gold Rush and the Oregon Trail. Dr. Conrad Smith (Morfar) has spent a decade trying to locate the rock where Preuss sat to sketch the image. Morfar together with his daughter and granddaughter navigate an unexpected turn of events on the final expedition to verify the location and reproduce the image in photographic form.

12am Nature Animal Odd Couples

Uncover the variety of activity, both human and natural, that occurs on the slopes of active volcanoes. See the surprising number of animals that survive and thrive alongside these fiery natural

phenomena.

18 Monday

8pm Voces On PBS Letters to Eloisa A haunting portrait of a writer's life and struggle for artistic freedom, meet Cuba's Jose Lezama Lima, an all but forgotten figure of the Latin

American literary boom that included Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Octavio Paz and Mario Vargas Llosa.

9pm The Good Road San Juan, Puerto Rico: After The Storm

For weeks after Hurricane Maria devastated the island of Puerto Rico in September of 2017, many families were left without any communication.

Meteorologist Ada Monzon walks with Earl Bridges along the beach of one of the hardest hit communities, Lo?za, to explain the aftermath, and her role in keeping people informed.

Then, Craig Martin and Earl meet with Major League Baseball Hall of Famer, Iv?n ? Pudge? Rodriguez, who partnered up with Raul Rodrigu?z and the Cagua Criollos baseball franchise to help the community in Cagua.

They provided all kinds of assistance including food and water despite the intense damage suffered by Criollos stadium, an iconic Puerto Rican venue. Pudge also toured Craig and Earl around his Pudge Coffee farm in his hometown of Vega Baja where the priority has been to get coffee farmers back in business. Casa Pueblo in the mountain town of Adjuntas is a community organization famous for winning the coveted Goldman

Environmental Prize. Director Arturo Massol-Deya continues the mission and focus of his

parents Tinti Dey? D?az and Alexis Massol Gonz?lez, Casa Pueblo?s founders.

They support the town of Adjuntas through their farms, radio station, medical labs and solar cinema. After Hurricane Maria hit, Casa Pueblo was one of the only places on the island that didn?t lose power because of their solar infrastructure.

Newsworthy

The news is often attention grabbing. But sometimes the story behind the story is just as, if not more so, interesting as the headlines. Featuring Phillip Martin, Anne Stuart and Jeff Howe. Hosted by Wes Hazard.

11:30pm BBC World News 12am Place to Stand A PLACE TO STAND is the amazing true story of how Jimmy Santiago Baca - a man with seemingly no future - became a celebrated poet, novelist and screenwriter.

Based on the memoir of the same name, the documentary takes viewers into Jimmy's past and present, to uncover how the power of the written word lifted him from the violence and pain that had defined his early life.

19 Tuesday

8pm America ReFramed Deej

Deej is the story of DJ

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Savarese ("Deej"), a gifted, young writer and advocate for nonspeaking autistics. Once a

"profoundly disabled" foster kid on a fast track to nowhere, DJ is now a first-year college student who insists on standing up for his peers:

people who are dismissed as incompetent because they are neurologically diverse. Will Deej be able to find freedom for himself and others like him?

9pm Hearts of Glass HEARTS OF GLASS tells the story of a state-of-the-art hydroponic greenhouse that provides meaningful

employment for people with disabilities. An innovative experiment in food

production, Vertical Harvest is an urban farm located in Jackson Hole, Wyo. Built on just one-tenth of an acre at an elevation of 6,237 feet, the high-tech greenhouse grows an amount of produce equivalent to 10 acres of traditional farmland. Using technology to overcome Jackson Hole's short four- month growing season, and extreme seasonal fluctuations in weather and population, Vertical Harvest is able to sell fresh vegetables to residents of the mountain town all year long. To help execute this mission, Vertical Harvest employs adults with intellectual and

developmental disabilities, who receive a competitive wage and have the

opportunity to work in their community year round. The documentary weaves together the story of the farm's first tumultuous 15 months of operation with the personal journeys of several

employees. Plants and people grow together in HEARTS OF GLASS, an intimate portrait of one community's attempt to address timely and pressing issues around local food production, inclusion and opportunity.

11:30pm BBC World News 12am America ReFramed Deej

Deej is the story of DJ Savarese ("Deej"), a gifted, young writer and advocate for nonspeaking autistics. Once a

people who are dismissed as incompetent because they are neurologically diverse. Will Deej be able to find freedom for himself and others like him?

20 Wednesday

8:30pm POV

La Casa de Mama Icha Decades ago, Mama Icha moved to the United States to help her daughter, but she never lost sight of her hometown of Mompox, spending years sending money to build her dream

house there. Now, at the end of her life, Mama Icha returns to Colombia.

11:30pm BBC World News 12am Los Hermanos/The Brothers

Virtuoso Afro-Cuban-born brothers-violinist Ilmar and pianist Aldo-live on opposite sides of a geopolitical chasm a half-century wide. Tracking their parallel lives in New York and Havana, their poignant reunion, and their momentous first performances together, LOS HERMANOS/THE BROTHERS offers a

nuanced, often startling view of estranged nations through the lens of music and family.

Featuring a genre-bending score composed by Cuban Aldo Lopez-Gavilan

performed with his American brother, Ilmar, and with guest appearances by maestro Joshua Bell and the Grammy- winning Harlem Quartet.

21 Thursday

8pm Secrets of the Dead Magellan's Crossing Five hundred years ago, Ferdinand Magellan and his crew set sail to gain control of the global spice trade. What resulted was the first

circumnavigation of the earth, laying the groundwork for colonization and globalization still felt today.

9pm Secrets of the Dead Galileo's Moon

Join experts as they uncover

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the truth behind the find of the century: an alleged proof copy of Galileo's "Sidereus

Nuncius," which changed our understanding of the cosmos.

This copy included his signature and seemingly original watercolor paintings.

Edible Insects

From crunchy cricket chips to nutty black soldier fly grubs, Edible Insects leaps across cultural and culinary boundaries to explore the insect food industry and how it could benefit our health and our warming planet. From Thailand to Texas, cricket farmers are showing how the tiny critters stack up as an environmentally friendly alternative to beef protein. In fact, as one of the show's many gastro-surprises reveals, insects make animal protein vastly more efficiently than cows and, pound for pound, deliver far better nutritional value than the finest steak. Unappealing as an insect milkshake might sound, it may promote the growth of healthy gut bacteria that can help prevent

inflammation and cancer. But what about the "ick" factor?

NOVA invites a panel of volunteers to sample an invitingly prepared tasting menu of roasted crickets, ants, mealworms, and chipotle-flavored

grasshoppers prepared by a New York chef, and, not surprisingly, some of the diners have trouble concealing their

squeamishness. Yet all the evidence in this diverting show adds up to the idea that our aversion to insects is mostly a matter of attitude and cultural conditioning. So will your kitchen table soon host its very own savory insect feast?

22 Friday

8:30pm American Masters Becoming Helen Keller Revisit Helen Keller's rich career and explore how she perpetually put her celebrity to use to advocate for human rights in the pursuit of social justice for all, particularly women, the poor and people with disabilities.

11:30pm BBC World News 12am Going Blind

GOING BLIND is a unique documentary film that

increases public awareness of sight loss and low vision issues profoundly affecting the lives of more and more people around the world by Peabody Award winning director Joseph Lovett.

Director Joseph Lovett has glaucoma, a disease that robs 4.5 million people worldwide of their vision. After years of slowly losing his sight, Joe decides to take action: to investigate how people all

over the country respond to vision-loss. His search begins small, with people Joe meets on the streets of his

hometown New York City and gradually leads him to places and people around the country, of all different ages and backgrounds. Each has a fascinating story about dealing with the vision loss caused by sight-robbing diseases, infections and accidents. Going Blind interweaves Joe's story with that of his fellow subjects and invites us into the intimate spaces of the visually impaired and blind. As a filmmaker, Joe uses the tool he knows best to gather information, to connect with individuals and to find answers to share with the world.

23 Saturday

8pm POV

My Way to Olympia Who better to cover the Paralympics, the international sporting event for athletes with physical and intellectual disabilities, than Niko von Glasow, the world's best- known disabled filmmaker?

Unfortunately -- or fortunately for anyone seeking an insightful and funny

documentary -- this filmmaker frankly hates sports and thinks the games are "a stupid idea." Born with severely shortened arms, von Glasow serves as an

endearing guide to London's

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Paralympics competition in

"My Way to Olympia." As he meets a one-handed Norwegian table tennis player, the Rwandan sitting volleyball team, an American archer without arms and a Greek paraplegic boccia player, his own stereotypes about disability and sports get punctured.

9pm Latino Americans Peril and Promise

Examine the past 30 years, as a second wave of Cubans and hundreds of thousands Salvadorans, Nicaraguans and Guatemalans flee to the U.S., creating a debate over undocumented immigrants that leads to calls for tightened borders, English- only laws and efforts to brand the undocumented as a drain on public resources.

Simultaneously, the Latino influence is booming in business, sports, media, politics and entertainment.

Latino Americans become the largest and youngest growing sector of the American population.

10pm America ReFramed Deej

Deej is the story of DJ Savarese ("Deej"), a gifted, young writer and advocate for nonspeaking autistics. Once a

people who are dismissed as incompetent because they are

neurologically diverse. Will Deej be able to find freedom for himself and others like him?

11pm Hearts of Glass HEARTS OF GLASS tells the story of a state-of-the-art hydroponic greenhouse that provides meaningful

employment for people with disabilities. An innovative experiment in food

production, Vertical Harvest is an urban farm located in Jackson Hole, Wyo. Built on just one-tenth of an acre at an elevation of 6,237 feet, the high-tech greenhouse grows an amount of produce equivalent to 10 acres of traditional farmland. Using technology to overcome Jackson Hole's short four- month growing season, and extreme seasonal fluctuations in weather and population, Vertical Harvest is able to sell fresh vegetables to residents of the mountain town all year long. To help execute this mission, Vertical Harvest employs adults with intellectual and

developmental disabilities, who receive a competitive wage and have the opportunity to work in their community year round. The documentary weaves together the story of the farm's first tumultuous 15 months of operation with the personal journeys of several

employees. Plants and people grow together in HEARTS OF GLASS, an intimate portrait of

one community's attempt to address timely and pressing issues around local food production, inclusion and opportunity.

12am POV

My Way to Olympia Who better to cover the Paralympics, the international sporting event for athletes with physical and intellectual disabilities, than Niko von Glasow, the world's best- known disabled filmmaker?

Unfortunately -- or fortunately for anyone seeking an insightful and funny

documentary -- this filmmaker frankly hates sports and thinks the games are "a stupid idea." Born with severely shortened arms, von Glasow serves as an

endearing guide to London's Paralympics competition in

"My Way to Olympia." As he meets a one-handed Norwegian table tennis player, the Rwandan sitting volleyball team, an American archer without arms and a Greek paraplegic boccia player, his own stereotypes about disability and sports get punctured.

24 Sunday

8pm Nature

My Garden of a Thousand Bees

A wildlife cameraman spends his time during the pandemic lockdown filming the bees in his urban garden and discovers the many diverse species and personalities that

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exist in this insect family..

9pm Finding Your Roots Anchored to the Past Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

examines how journalists Gretchen Carlson and Don Lemon were able to overcome biases in their careers, drawing parallels to relatives who met profound challenges of their own.

10pm Doc World Las Sandinistas!

Meet the women who shattered barriers to lead combat and social reform during Nicaragua's 1979 Sandinista Revolution. The film is centered around the personal stories of Dora Maria Tellez, the young medical student who became a major Sandinista General, and four of her revolutionary allies.

Together, these Nicaraguan women overcame traditional gender barriers and subverted stereotypes to lead rebel troops in 1979's Sandinista Revolution, and then reshaped their country with landmark social reforms.

A?LAS SANDINISTAS!

exposes a watershed moment in history when thousands of women transformed their society's definition of womanhood and leadership before facing renewed marginalization by their male peers after the wars ended.

Now, 35 years later, amidst staggering levels of violence against women in Nicaragua their stories are being erased from the history books.

Undaunted, these same women brave the streets, once again, to lead popular movements for equality and democracy.

11pm Place to Stand A PLACE TO STAND is the amazing true story of how Jimmy Santiago Baca - a man with seemingly no future - became a celebrated poet, novelist and screenwriter.

Based on the memoir of the same name, the documentary takes viewers into Jimmy's past and present, to uncover how the power of the written word lifted him from the violence and pain that had defined his early life.

12am Nature

My Garden of a Thousand Bees

A wildlife cameraman spends his time during the pandemic lockdown filming the bees in his urban garden and discovers the many diverse species and personalities that exist in this insect family..

25 Monday

8pm La Frontera with Pati Jinich

From Dos Laredos to Mars Chef Pati Jinich travels from Laredo and Nuevo Laredo to Brownsville, Texas. She learns how tight-knit family bonds are an underlying theme connecting everything in the Laredos and throughout La Frontera.

9pm The Good Road Hyderabad, India: One in a Billion

Earl Bridges and Craig Martin travel to Hyderabad, India to meet up with Earl?s old college friend, Harish Mamtani. Harish runs a private school designed to help underprivileged students who are eager to learn with a better education than can be received elsewhere in the community. Coming from an entrepreneurial background, Harish knows that innovation is the key to making possible the overwhelming task of providing effective education to students in poor

communities. Craig and Earl also visit Hyderabad?s historic Golconda Fort and Charminar Mosque, as The Good Road team steps back in time to India?s ancient history. And, of course, they indulge in some of the best street food Hyderabad has to offer. Later, on a walk through a top rated private school in Richmond, Virginia, Harish explains to Earl why private education in India is critical for the poorest of the poor versus the traditional US model of private education for the wealthy. Harish works hard to provide access to the poor of Hyderabad through private schools, as a necessary supplement to India?s public education infrastructure.

Resilience

Houston - the U.S.'s most ethnically diverse

metropolitan area - is a

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community of people who have learned the fine art of resilience. Featuring Sneha Desai, Brendan Bourque- Sheil and Ebony Stewart.

Hosted by Theresa Okokon.

11:30pm BBC World News 12am La Frontera with Pati Jinich

Miles from Nowhere Acclaimed chef and James Beard Award-winning host Pati Jinich travels from El Paso and Juarez to Big Bend National Park. She discovers the people, places and food -- from burritos to Middle Eastern cuisine -- that make this region unique.

26 Tuesday

8pm America ReFramed Bring It Home

Bring It Home tells the story of five Ohioan families at a crossroads after the sudden closing of the GM Lordstown auto plant. The decision by GM forces thousands of families in the Mahoning Valley to decide between taking a transfer to an out-of- state plant, or staying put. If they stay, they risk losing their employment, health and retirement benefits. As they wrestle these tough choices, they are left wondering why a company recording billions in profits is shuttering factories.

9:30pm Walk The Walk Walk the Walk, showcases a unique college class where students have been going

beyond talking about possible solutions to problems facing American society to actually implementing policy changes which get at their root causes.

Produced by Bob Gliner (Schools that Change Communities, Barefoot College) this very timely and informative documentary focuses on three critical issues the class addresses over a twelve year period, 2007 - 2019. Viewers see a diverse range of students try to implement an innovative solution to devastation caused along the Gulf Coast by Hurricane Katrina, successfully raise the minimum wage in San Jose California, and develop policies to confront increasing cases of homelessness among college students.

While many of us feel increasing frustration and powerlessness when confronted with the nation's seeming inability to solve the many pressing social

problems it faces, Walk the Walk provides a model for democracy to come alive in our nation's classrooms, in the process, educating and invigorating students to improve the communities and larger society they inhabit.

11:30pm BBC World News 12am America ReFramed Bring It Home

Bring It Home tells the story of five Ohioan families at a

crossroads after the sudden closing of the GM Lordstown auto plant. The decision by GM forces thousands of families in the Mahoning Valley to decide between taking a transfer to an out-of- state plant, or staying put. If they stay, they risk losing their employment, health and retirement benefits. As they wrestle these tough choices, they are left wondering why a company recording billions in profits is shuttering factories.

27 Wednesday

9pm Frontline Shots Fired

Amid record police shootings in Utah, an investigation into the use of deadly force in the state. With The Salt Lake Tribune, an examination of police training, tactics and accountability; and racial disparities in the way force is used.

11:30pm BBC World News 12am Becoming Johanna When Johanna, a 16-year-old transgender Latina, begins her transition and gets kicked out of her home and school, she finds a foster family who loves her and a supportive school principal who helps her graduate and thrive.

12:30am POV

Things We Dare Not Do In the small Mexican coastal village of El Roblito, 16-year- old Nono lives what seems to be an idyllic existence with his

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loving family. But he holds a secret. Defying gender norms, Nono works up the courage to tell his family he wants to live his life as a woman. Yet when violence interrupts a

community celebration, he must face the reality of a country shrouded in

machismo and transphobia. In the accompanying POV Short Film: Share, an 18-year-old Instagram influencer attempts to reconcile his identity online with his identity in real life.

28 Thursday

8pm Secrets of the Dead Lady Sapiens

Incredible scientific

investigations from across the globe are helping piece together the untold story of prehistoric women. The latest research separates fact from fiction and sheds new light on our ancient foremothers.

9pm Secrets of the Dead The Woman in the Iron Coffin Follow a team of forensic experts as they investigate the preserved remains of a young African American woman from 19th century New York and reveal the little- known story of early

America's free black communities.

NOVA Universe Revealed:

Age of Stars

29 Friday

8pm Margaret: The Rebel

Princess Part One

Learn how Princess Margaret's life and loves reflected the social and sexual revolution that transformed the western world during the 20th century, and redefined society's image of the modern princess.

9pm Margaret: The Rebel Princess

Part Two

Peek in on Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones at the start of their married life. They're happy to ride the wave of a cultural and sexual revolution that's transforming Britain, but a more open society may spell trouble for the monarchy.

11:30pm BBC World News 12am Royal Wives at War Take a fresh look at the abdication crisis of 1936 through dramatized monologues by the two women at its heart, the Queen Mother and Wallis Simpson, as they look back at the events that led to Edward VIII's decision to give up the throne.

30 Saturday

8pm American Veteran The Calling

As recruits take the oath to serve, they leave the civilian world to become a soldier, sailor, marine, airman or woman. This is the start of their transformation. Narrated

by TV host and former Marine Drew Carey.

9pm American Masters Becoming Helen Keller Revisit Helen Keller's rich career and explore how she perpetually put her celebrity to use to advocate for human rights in the pursuit of social justice for all, particularly women, the poor and people with disabilities.

10:30pm America ReFramed Bring It Home

Bring It Home tells the story of five Ohioan families at a crossroads after the sudden closing of the GM Lordstown auto plant. The decision by GM forces thousands of families in the Mahoning Valley to decide between taking a transfer to an out-of- state plant, or staying put. If they stay, they risk losing their employment, health and retirement benefits. As they wrestle these tough choices, they are left wondering why a company recording billions in profits is shuttering factories.

12am American Veteran The Calling

As recruits take the oath to serve, they leave the civilian world to become a soldier, sailor, marine, airman or woman. This is the start of their transformation. Narrated by TV host and former Marine Drew Carey.

31 Sunday

8pm Nature

Season of the Osprey

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Birds of prey exist in myriad shapes and sizes. Scores of eagles, hundreds of hawks and countless kites and falcons have all adapted form and behavior to fit diverse habitats. But in all the world, there is only one osprey.

Following a single evolutionary path, it has conquered every continent save Antarctica. One bird, one design, unchanged. It is the only truly aquatic raptor, the sole member of its own taxonomic family. This one- hour, blue-chip special brings viewers into the life to this incredible raptor with a depth and intimacy never before attempted. Shot in and around Great Island Marsh, where the Connecticut River meets the Long Island Sound, cameraman Jacob Steinberg has achieved unlimited access to an osprey nest and captured the struggles, failures and triumphs of a single osprey family.

9pm Finding Your Roots No Irish Need Apply Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

explores the roots of actor Jane Lynch and comedian Jim Gaffigan, revealing the Irish American experience through their families.

10pm Doc World

Unsettled: Seeking Refuge In America

In their home countries, Subhi, Cheyenne, Mari and Junior were targets of death threats, harassment and discrimination because of who

they are and who they love.

These four are among the many LGBTQ+ refugees and asylum seekers who have fled persecution to resettle in the U.S. But as leadership in America continues to demonize immigrants and restrict the flow of refugees into the U.S., UNSETTLED:

SEEKING REFUGE IN AMERICA humanizes a group of people who are desperately trying to find a safe place to call home. The film, which largely takes place in the San Francisco Bay Area, also asks whether U.S. cities like those in Northern California are a practical location for resettlement given the economic challenges (cost of living, scarcity of affordable housing) they present. What are the ultimate costs immigrants pay for seeking refuge in America?

11:30pm Walk The Walk Walk the Walk, showcases a unique college class where students have been going beyond talking about possible solutions to problems facing American society to actually implementing policy changes which get at their root causes.

Produced by Bob Gliner (Schools that Change Communities, Barefoot College) this very timely and informative documentary focuses on three critical issues the class addresses over a twelve year period, 2007 - 2019. Viewers see a diverse range of students try

to implement an innovative solution to devastation caused along the Gulf Coast by Hurricane Katrina, successfully raise the minimum wage in San Jose California, and develop policies to confront increasing cases of homelessness among college students.

While many of us feel increasing frustration and powerlessness when confronted with the nation's seeming inability to solve the many pressing social

problems it faces, Walk the Walk provides a model for democracy to come alive in our nation's classrooms, in the process, educating and invigorating students to improve the communities and larger society they inhabit.

12am Nature

Season of the Osprey Birds of prey exist in myriad shapes and sizes. Scores of eagles, hundreds of hawks and countless kites and falcons have all adapted form and behavior to fit diverse habitats. But in all the world, there is only one osprey.

Following a single evolutionary path, it has conquered every continent save Antarctica. One bird, one design, unchanged. It is the only truly aquatic raptor, the sole member of its own taxonomic family. This one- hour, blue-chip special brings viewers into the life to this incredible raptor with a depth and intimacy never before

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attempted. Shot in and around Great Island Marsh, where the Connecticut River meets the Long Island Sound, cameraman Jacob Steinberg has achieved unlimited access to an osprey nest and captured the struggles, failures and triumphs of a single osprey family.