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| | AMERICA'S LOST LANDSCAPE
The Tallgrass Prairie
Sunday, April 1, 10pm &
Tuesday, April 3, 9pm
This program tells the rich and complex story of one of the most astonishing alterations of nature in human history: the transformation – in the space of a single lifetime – of the tallgrass prairie of North America into farmland. The drastic change in the landscape also brought about enormous social change for Native Americans. This film – which interweaves cinematography of prairie remnants, an original score and archival images – highlights prairie preservation efforts and explores how the tallgrass prairie ecosystem may serve as a model for a sustainable agriculture of the future.
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| | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
Sister Aimee
Monday, April 2, 9pm
Sister Aimee tells the dramatic life story of Aimee Semple McPherson, the controversial, charismatic, wildly popular evangelist who was instrumental in bringing conservative Protestantism into mainstream culture and American politics. McPherson began her mission humbly, traveling across the country staging tent revivals. In 1921, at the age of 31, she settled in Los Angeles, founded the Church of the Four Square Gospel and built the Angelus Temple, where she often preached before a packed house of 5,000 believers, using elaborate musical productions worthy of Broadway. During her emotional revivals, McPherson performed controversial healings and soon started drawing bigger crowds than those of P.T. Barnum, Houdini or Teddy Roosevelt. Employing a publicist, she became a darling of the Los Angeles journalists and newsreel crews. McPherson also created her own radio station—one of the first Christian radio stations in the United States—and used it to broadcast daily sermons to her followers. Through interviews with her biographers, historians and scholars, this program presents a complex and revealing portrait of one of the most significant religious figures of the early 20th century.
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| | TERRY SANFORD AND THE NEW SOUTH
Monday, April 2, 10pm
By February of 1960, Terry Sanford had been working for the better part of a decade to win the governorship of North Carolina, a job he had dreamt of most of his adult life. But when four young black men sat down at a Woolworth counter in the city of Greensboro in his home state and demanded to be served, their actions put him in the most excruciating dilemma. To support them would be to commit political suicide, to condemn them would be to violate his most basic principles, to remain silent was impossible. Terry Sanford and the New South is the story of a progressive Southern governor and his bare-knuckle politics during segregation’s reign. The program charts the emergence of this back-slapping, cigar-smoking white politician as he pushed his vision for a new South and became a forceful agent of racial change. The program features interviews with vice presidential candidate John Edwards, former North Carolina Governor Jim Hunt, civil rights leader Vernon Jordan and wife Margaret Rose Sanford.
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| | DESIGN SQUAD
Sundays at 8:30am
Two teams of high school students design, build and test whimsical machines and innovative products — everything from a wireless light and dance show to an automatic pancake maker — for real clients. Guided by two engineer hosts (a male and female twenty-something duo: NOT your stereotypical men-with-pocket-protectors), Design Squad teams are scored for their ability to think outside the box and meet (or surpass) the demands of the challenge at hand.
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|  | | THE PRIDE OF THE BUCKEYES
A high-definition television documentary that tells the story of the best damn band in the land. Follow the band from tryouts to bowl game, and learn about the elaborate half-time shows, precision formations, military traditions, and the commitment to excellence embraced by every member. From exhausting practices to nerve-wracking challenges, from the stirring ramp entrance to the graceful Script Ohio, you’ll see what it takes to be a member of the nation’s elite college marching band. |
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