Media Menu, April 3, 2010

Here are home viewing suggestions
for the week, selected from online advanced TV program listings and
aligned with the state and national K-12 academic standards available
online. Please consult local listings also, since actual broadcast times
may vary. The Websites cited in the “Log on“ box below
the tv listing provide further details about the show’s topic
and may contain links to video clips from the show or a complete streaming
video version of the show.

Saturday, April 10, 2010, 1-3 p.m. ET, 10 a.m.– noon PT	CNN	U.S. History and Math	Middle and High School
“I.O.U.S. A. – Solutions”
This special 2-hour documentary looks at indications that our country is drowning in massive debt - and it's getting bigger each day. How can we change our course ... and What happens if we don't?
Log on http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/inthemoney

Saturday, April 10, 2010, 8-11 p.m. ET, 5-8 p.m. PT	TCM-Turner Classic Movie Channel	World History	Middle and High School
“Judgment At Nuremberg”
This movie is a multiple Oscar-winning fictionalized account of the post-World War II Nuremberg Trials. The film depicts the trial of certain public officials who served during the Nazi regime in Germany. Such a trial did occur: the film was inspired by the “Judges' Trial” before the Nuremberg Military Tribunal in 1947. That event considered the basic question of individual complicity in crimes committed by the state TV-14
For a detailed synopsis of the film’s story log on http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=22842. For historical details log on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgment_at_Nuremberg

Sunday, April 11, 2010, 8-10 p.m. E/P	Discovery Channel	Science	Middle and High School
“LIFE: Birds/Creatures of The Deep”
This is a broadcast of two new episodes of Discovery Channel’s new 11-part documentary series: ‘LIFE’. It’s an exploration of the adaptability of life on earth, revealing the behaviors that living things have devised in order to thrive. Series narrator is Oprah Winfrey. The “Birds” episode notes that birds have one feature that no other animal possesses: feathers. This allows them to solve life's challenges in radically different ways. Birds also use color, song and ingenuity to win the hearts of their mates. The “Creatures Of The Deep” episode points out that sea marine invertebrates are extraordinarily diverse. Humboldt squid change color like flashing neon signs and attack a school of fish, while vast numbers of giant spider crabs emerge and congregate in the shallows to molt. TV-PG
Log on http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/life

Sunday, April 11, 2010, 9-11 p.m. E/P	PBS	World History	Middle and High School
“MASTERPIECE CLASSIC “The Diary of Anne Frank”
Airings on Holocaust Remembrance Day 2010, this movie is an adaptation of Anne Frank’s diary describing her life hiding from the Nazis during WWII. It stars Ellie Kendrick (An Education) as a maturing teenager who undergoes an extraordinary ordeal. Iain Glen (“Into the Storm”) stars as Anne’s father, Tamsin Greig (“Emma”) as her mother and Felicity Jones (“Northanger Abbey”) as her studious older sister. Together with four others, they hide for two years in the back rooms of an Amsterdam business, while Anne records their tense daily life in one of history’s most remarkable memoirs. Laura Linney hosts. TV-PG
Log on http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece and http://www.ushmm.org/remembrance/dor/

Monday, April 12, 2010, 8-9 p.m. ET, 5-6 p.m. PT	Ovation Channel	World History and Arts	Middle and High School
“This is Civilisation: Ye Gods”
This documentary looks at non-Western art traditions and the ways in which they have shaped Western civilization. On a journey through locations in Greece, Turkey, France, Italy, Switzerland, Britain, Germany, Spain, Egypt, China and the United States, the program explores how art reflects the fantastic leaps that civilization has made. Art critic Matthew Collings explores the lasting effects of religious artwork on society. Starting in Greece, the idea of multiple gods was left as legacy by the Egyptians. Although the original idea came from the Egyptians, the Greeks added into their artwork the lifelike details and the human shaped forms that continue to captivate us. Collings moves on to explore how the Greeks then influenced Christian artwork. These stories show how religious art forms ideas about faith and continues through the ages to inspire.
Streaming video versions of “This Is Civilisation” at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoSjRRv6ZrE

Monday, April 12, 2010, 10-11 p.m. E/P	PBS	World History and Geography	Middle and High School
“Among The Righteous: Lost Stories From The Holocaust In Arab Lands”
Did any Arabs save Jews during the Holocaust? Seeking a response to the plague of Holocaust denial in the Arab world, Robert Satloff, head of a respected Washington policy center, sets off in the wake of 9/11 on what would become an eight-year journey to find an Arab hero whose story would change the way Arabs view Jews, themselves and their own history. This documentary reports that along the way, Satloff found not only the Arab heroes whom he sought, but a vast, lost history of what happened to the half-million Jews of the Arab lands of North Africa under Nazi, Vichy and Fascist rule. TV-PG

Tuesday, April 13, 2010, 8-9 p.m. E/P	Science Channel	Science	Middle and High School
“The Day the Earth Nearly Died”
The Permian mass extinction was the worst disaster ever to hit Earth. It shattered ecological order and changed evolution forever. In this documentary scientists shed new light on the mystery of the most destructive event in the planet's history.
Log on http://dsc.discovery.com/dinosaurs/permian-extinction.html

Tuesday, April 13, 2010, 9-10 p.m. E/P	PBS	U.S. History and Economics	Middle and High School
“FRONTLINE “Obama’s Deal”
Healthcare reform was the first big policy deal taken on by the Obama administration. Many say the president has bet the mid-term elections, possibly his presidency, on the outcome. This documentary goes behind closed doors at the White House, in Congress and the boardrooms of the giant healthcare lobby to examine the political battles and costly compromises that defined Barack Obama’s endeavor. From early positive efforts, through the bitter battles with the Tea Party, the elation of apparent success at Christmas, to the crushing failure in the Massachusetts senatorial election, the program follows the story and reveals the first in-depth look at how the Obama administration operates. In “Obama’s Deal,” FRONTLINE veteran producer Michael Kirk (“Bush’s War,” “Dreams of Obama,” “Inside the Meltdown,” “The Warning”) provides a sobering exposé of the realities of American politics, the power of special interest groups and the role of money in policy-making .
Log on http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline

Wednesday, April 14, 2010, 8-9 p.m. E/P	National Geographic Channel	U.S. History and Geography	Middle and High School
“Inside the Border Warriors: Walk the Line”
Viewers of this documentary will meet the Shadow Wolves, an elite unit of just 12 Native American federal agents who hunt down drug smugglers crossing into the US through a desert the size of Connecticut using ancient techniques.
Log on http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/series/inside/3596/Overview

Thursday April 15, 2010, 9-11 p.m. E/P	PBS	U.S. History	Middle and High School
“EYES ON THE PRIZE: AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Mississippi: Is This America? 1963-1964/Bridge to Freedom 1965”
This is a broadcast of the final two episodes of the groundbreaking documentary series examining America’s civil rights years. Covering the period from the murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till in Money, Mississippi, and the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott through school desegregation, the march from Selma to Montgomery and the Voting Rights Act, the miniseries is considered the definitive history of this formative time in the nation’s life. Narrated by Julian Bond. “Mississippi: Is This America? 1963-1964” - Mississippi’s grass-roots civil rights movement becomes an American concern. “Bridge to Freedom 1965” - A decade of lessons is applied in the climactic and bloody march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. TV-PG
Log on http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize

Thursday April 15, 2010, 9-10 p.m. E/P	National Geographic Channel	U.S. History and Science	Middle and High School
“Secret History of the Atom Bomb ”
Airing on the occasion of this month’s signing of a nuclear arms-reduction treaty by the U.S. and Russia, this documentary tells the history of the atomic bomb. Since WWII the number of nuclear nations has proliferated, despite the fact atomic bombs are considered the most tightly guarded, top-secret of weapons. The history of bomb is filled with deception, twists and danger. Culling from rarely seen archival footage and interviews with leading experts, we'll see how Soviet spies gathered top-secret information during WWII. Learn why China shared its nuclear weapons technology with other countries. Find out how Israel's nuclear weapons program was exposed by a disgruntled worker who leaked information before being kidnapped. And more recently, see how Pakistani nuclear scientists met with Al Qaeda prior to 9/11.
Log on http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/04/08/new-start-treaty-and-protocol and http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/secret-history-of-the-atom-bomb-4603/Overview

Friday, April 16, 2010, 8:30-9 p.m. E/P (check local listings)	PBS	U.S. History and Government	Middle and High School
“NOW”
This special edition of PBS’ “NOW”, airing in the program’s final season on the air, looks back on eight years of its in-depth investigative reporting to examine what's been uncovered and accomplished, as well as what still needs to be done to preserve and enhance our democracy. The program asks whether true investigative journalism disappearing just when we need it most?
Log on http://www.pbs.org/now

Saturday, April 17, 2010, 2-4:15 p.m. ET, 11 a.m. -1:15 p.m. PT	TCM – Turner Classic Movies	U.S. History and Classic Literature	Elementary, Middle and High School
“The Yearling”
This is an Oscar–winning family film based on Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’ Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Set in the pioneer settler days of the American South well over a hundred years ago it’s about a Florida boy's pet deer that threatens the family farm. Cast: Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman, Claude Jarman. TV-G
Details about the book and the movie at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yearling_(film)