8/5 - 8/11
2012
All times are EST
Previously aired
QUEEN & COUNTRY
Tour with Queen Elizabeth prior to the opening of an important meeting in Perth, Western Australia.
MASTERPIECE
Kevin Whately and Laurence Fox return for a fifth season of the popular detective series, set in the seemingly perfect academic haven of Oxford.
MARKET WARRIORS
Accompany the pickers as they search for costume jewelry at Philadelphia’s Phila Flea Market.
FRONTLINE
Probe the battle between those who depend on the Bristol Bay for salmon and those who want to dig an open-pit mine at its headwaters.
NATURE
Join adventurer and bear biologist Chris Morgan on a year-long odyssey into Alaska’s bear country.
Follow Chris Morgan to north Alaska, where polar bears struggle for extended periods on dwindling fat reserves.
NOVA
Accompany physicist and acclaimed author Brian Greene on a mind-bending reality check and journey to the frontiers of physics.
Join Brian Greene on a wild ride into the weird realm of quantum physics, governing the universe on the tiniest of scales.
Watch the surreal world of string theory spring to life on the screen, with physicist Brian Greene.
Learn about a brave new theory at the frontier of physics: that our universe may not be the only one.
INDEPENDENT LENS
Follow a champion weightlifter who struggles to defend her status as her career inches towards its end.
POV
Take a moving look at a new generation of Americans struggling to be both Native and modern.
HOMELAND: IMMIGRATION IN AMERICA
Cut through the rhetoric to explore the struggle to enforce inconsistent immigration policies.
JULIA CHILD
Jacques Pépin prepares braised sweetbreads in puff pastry with a black truffle and Madeira sauce.
THIS OLD HOUSE
Barrington Project, Part 1 of 10
ASK THIS OLD HOUSE
Reusing water from a washing machine; maintaining small gasoline engines
HOMETIME
HOMETIME builds massive decorative wood brackets.
AUSTIN CITY LIMITS
M. Ward performs highlights from his latest LP; Austin indie rock favorite Okkervil River follows.
ANTIQUES ROADSHOW
A 6.5 carat yellow mine cut diamond ring; a North American Indian club and pipe; and three Charles Darwin first editions.
Meet the indomitable Dolores Huerta, who has tirelessly led the fight for racial and labor justice.
