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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.
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
9-10 p.m.
PBS
Science and Geography
Middle and High School
NOVA: Deadliest Volcanoes
This documentary accompanies scientists who are attempting to discover how likely volcanoes are to erupt, when eruptions might happen and how deadly they could prove to be. Millions of people around the world live in the shadow of active volcanoes. Under constant threat of massive volcanic eruptions, their homes and their lives are daily at risk from these sleeping giants. From Japan’s Mount Fuji to the "Sleeping Giant" submerged beneath Naples to the Yellowstone "supervolcano" in the United States, we will travel with scientists from around the world who are at work on these sites, attempting to discover how likely these volcanoes are to erupt, when it might happen, and exactly how deadly they could prove to be. TV-PG
Log on http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/earth/deadliest-volcanoes.html
Thursday, January 5, 2012,
8-9 p.m.
National Geographic Channel
Science and Geography
Middle and High School
Diving into Noah's Flood
In this documentary archaeologist Jeff Rose embarks on a journey to understand how the destructive forces of water might have inspired the biblical story of Noahs Ark and the great flood. Dr. Rose believes that a massive flood once swallowed a landmass as big as Great Britain, created the Persian Gulf and sent tribes of Neolithic people into constant retreat from the ever-rising waters.
Log on http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/11/071120-noah-flood.html
Friday, January 6, 2012,
9-10 p.m.
Science Channel
Science and Geography
Middle and High School
Unearthing Ancient Secrets: Secrets of the Great Plague
In the winter of 1665, the Great Plague swept through London killing a third of its population. But why were some men and women mysteriously resistant to the deadliest disease then known? Through a series of groundbreaking experiments and archaeological discoveries, this documentary reveals how the Great Plague’s super survivors could hold the key to fighting the infectious diseases of the 21st century, and how our own bodies could teach us to outsmart nature's most vicious killers. TV-PG
Log on http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/11/071120-noah-flood.html
Friday, January 6, 2012,
10-11 p.m.
PBS
Arts and Geography
Elementary,Middle and High School
TAVIS SMILEY REPORTS : Dudamel: Conducting a Life
This documentary gives viewers an extraordinary look into the life and artistry of the LA Philharmonic’s charismatic conductor. Gustavo Dudamel is not only the youngest conductor of any major orchestra in the world, but is also being hailed by critics as the most exciting. Dudamel is instrumental in inspiring the launch of the LA Philharmonic’s Youth Orchestra Los Angeles initiative, which provides Los Angeles school children with music education. A student of an internationally acclaimed music program in his native Venezuela, Dudamel is committed to expanding music education in America. The program also profiles some of the remarkable kids whose lives are being transformed by Dudamel’s commitment to free music education for all. TV-G
Log on http://www.pbs.org/wnet/tavissmiley/tsr/dudamel-conducting-a-life/dudamels-life-and-career/
Saturday, January 7, 2012,
8-9 p.m.
National Geographic Channel
Technology and Economics
Middle and High School
Ultimate Factories: Porsche
This documentary delivers a behind-the-scenes look at how Porsche builds the Panamera, the company’s first four-door high-performance sports sedan. The new addition to the Porsche family is pushing the company into uncharted territory. In April 2010, the Panamera became the best-selling Porsche model in the United States. Assembled at a state-of-the-art factory in Leipzig, Germany, the facility combines some of the best of modern automotive technology to produce 120 Panameras each day. Our cameras are on the front lines as each car is built with precision and quality, from the installation of the roof to the paint job. We’ll watch as 300 workers custom build Panamera engines … all seven of them based on the amount of power the driver wants.
Log on http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/ultimate-factories/facts-porsche-panamera/
Sunday, January 8, 2012,
8-9 p.m.
TCM-Turner Classic Movie Channel
World History And Arts
Middle and High School
Joan OF Arc
This Oscar-winning movie is based on the true story of a farm girl whose religious faith unites France against British invaders during the Fifteenth Century . Guided by the voices that have spoken to her since she was thirteen, Jeanne travels from her home in Lorraine, at their instruction. The voices have commanded her to lead the French Dauphin Charles VII -- who is the prospective king of France--in battle against the British, first in Orleans but then in successive victories that rally the French people around Jeanne during the Hundred Years War. But Jeanne's growing stature--a threat to the monarchy--and the king's greed lead Charles to trade French autonomy for money. He makes a deal with the British, who then capture Jeanne, imprisoning her and subjecting her to a farcical trial whose only goal, despite the semblance of fairness, is to burn Jeanne at the stake as a heretic. The trial is led by the corrupt, politically motivated Pierre Cauchon who harangues and tortures Jeanne until she is nearly broken. But even her British persecutors cannot stop Jeanne from achieving sainthood with her immortality assured when she is burned at the stake. TV-PG
Log on http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/79785/Joan-of-Arc/articles.html and http://archive.joan-of-arc.org/
Monday, January 9, 2012
4-5 p.m.
Planet Green Channel
Geography and U.S. History
Elementary, Middle and High School
Natural Wonders: The Southern Rockies
As shown in this documentary, the Southern Rockies are an astonishing natural wonder. Rich with the history of Lewis and Clark, native Americans and European trailblazers searching for gold, this area is also teeming with animals in a timeless life-and-death drama. TV-G
Log on http://www.southernrockies.org/
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
4-5 p.m.
History Channel
Science
Elementary, Middle and High School
Modern Marvels: Heavy Metals
They are elements that occupy a select portion of the periodic table and are so essential to America's economic and military might that they are stored in the National Defense Stockpile in case of all-out war.
In this documentary the heavy metals surveyed include copper, uranium, lead, zinc, and nickel. It also takes a look at superalloys--consisting of steel combined with chromium, cobalt, and dozens of other heavy metals--that resist corrosion and perform increasingly elaborate functions.
Log on http://genesismission.jpl.nasa.gov/educate/scimodule/UnderElem/UnderElem_pdf/ModPerTableST.pdf
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
9-10 p.m.
PBS
U.S. History
Middle and High School
BILLY THE KID: AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
This documentary deconstructs the mythology of a notorious western outlaw. On April 28, 1881, 21-year-old Henry McCarty, alias Billy the Kid, just days from being hanged for murder, outfoxed his jailors and electrified the nation with the latest in a long line of daring escapes. Just a few weeks later, the notorious young outlaw was gunned down by an ambitious sheriff. Demonized by the lawman who killed him, the Kid was soon mythologized by a never-ending stream of dime-store romances and later, big-screen dramas. But in all the narratives, Billy the Kid’s real story has been obscured. Born to impoverished Irish immigrants, the Kid led a hardscrabble, itinerant life that became harder still when his mother died of tuberculosis. He came of age in a lawless corner of New Mexico, where an Irish immigrant ring held a vise-like grip on all money-making endeavors and the Mexican population was frequently cheated out of their property without recourse to the courts. Caught in the middle of a many-centuries-old Irish-English conflict playing out on the plains of the Southwest, the Kid captured national attention with his reckless violence. His fascination with Mexican culture, his flair for Spanish and his disdain for the Anglo authorities made him a hero of sorts to the Hispanic community, who hid him when the law came looking and mourned him when he was gone. TV-PG
Log on http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/introduction/billy-introduction
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
9-11 p.m.
PBS
U.S. History
Middle and High School
NOVA; Bombing Hitler’s Dams
In 1943, a squadron of British Lancaster bombers staged one of the most audacious raids in history — destroying two gigantic dams in Germany’s industrial heartland and cutting the water supply to arms factories — with a revolutionary bouncing bomb invented by British engineer Barnes Wallis. Wallis and the pilots of 617 Squadron dealt a mighty blow to the German war machine. This documentary re-creates the extreme engineering challenges faced by Wallis and the pilots with the aid of six spectacular experiments. Each represents a technical challenge that the “Dambusters” had to solve to make their mission a success. A team of experts — from dam engineers to explosives specialists — steps into the shoes of the Dambusters. They will adapt a vintage World War II DC4 to carry a bomb the size of an oil drum; train to drop it from a dangerously low altitude in pitch darkness; get it to bounce over obstacles and onto the target; and finally, at a test site in Canada with a 1:6 scale model of one of the German dams, try to repeat history. TV-PG
Log on http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/military/bombing-hitler-dams.html
Book TV Schedule
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
9-10 p.m.
PBS
Science and Geography
Middle and High School
NOVA: Deadliest Volcanoes
This documentary accompanies scientists who are attempting to discover how likely volcanoes are to erupt, when eruptions might happen and how deadly they could prove to be. Millions of people around the world live in the shadow of active volcanoes. Under constant threat of massive volcanic eruptions, their homes and their lives are daily at risk from these sleeping giants. From Japan’s Mount Fuji to the "Sleeping Giant" submerged beneath Naples to the Yellowstone "supervolcano" in the United States, we will travel with scientists from around the world who are at work on these sites, attempting to discover how likely these volcanoes are to erupt, when it might happen, and exactly how deadly they could prove to be. TV-PG
Log on http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/earth/deadliest-volcanoes.html
Thursday, January 5, 2012,
8-9 p.m.
National Geographic Channel
Science and Geography
Middle and High School
Diving into Noah's Flood
In this documentary archaeologist Jeff Rose embarks on a journey to understand how the destructive forces of water might have inspired the biblical story of Noahs Ark and the great flood. Dr. Rose believes that a massive flood once swallowed a landmass as big as Great Britain, created the Persian Gulf and sent tribes of Neolithic people into constant retreat from the ever-rising waters.
Log on http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/11/071120-noah-flood.html
Friday, January 6, 2012,
9-10 p.m.
Science Channel
Science and Geography
Middle and High School
Unearthing Ancient Secrets: Secrets of the Great Plague
In the winter of 1665, the Great Plague swept through London killing a third of its population. But why were some men and women mysteriously resistant to the deadliest disease then known? Through a series of groundbreaking experiments and archaeological discoveries, this documentary reveals how the Great Plague’s super survivors could hold the key to fighting the infectious diseases of the 21st century, and how our own bodies could teach us to outsmart nature's most vicious killers. TV-PG
Log on http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/11/071120-noah-flood.html
Friday, January 6, 2012,
10-11 p.m.
PBS
Arts and Geography
Elementary,Middle and High School
TAVIS SMILEY REPORTS : Dudamel: Conducting a Life
This documentary gives viewers an extraordinary look into the life and artistry of the LA Philharmonic’s charismatic conductor. Gustavo Dudamel is not only the youngest conductor of any major orchestra in the world, but is also being hailed by critics as the most exciting. Dudamel is instrumental in inspiring the launch of the LA Philharmonic’s Youth Orchestra Los Angeles initiative, which provides Los Angeles school children with music education. A student of an internationally acclaimed music program in his native Venezuela, Dudamel is committed to expanding music education in America. The program also profiles some of the remarkable kids whose lives are being transformed by Dudamel’s commitment to free music education for all. TV-G
Log on http://www.pbs.org/wnet/tavissmiley/tsr/dudamel-conducting-a-life/dudamels-life-and-career/
Saturday, January 7, 2012,
8-9 p.m.
National Geographic Channel
Technology and Economics
Middle and High School
Ultimate Factories: Porsche
This documentary delivers a behind-the-scenes look at how Porsche builds the Panamera, the company’s first four-door high-performance sports sedan. The new addition to the Porsche family is pushing the company into uncharted territory. In April 2010, the Panamera became the best-selling Porsche model in the United States. Assembled at a state-of-the-art factory in Leipzig, Germany, the facility combines some of the best of modern automotive technology to produce 120 Panameras each day. Our cameras are on the front lines as each car is built with precision and quality, from the installation of the roof to the paint job. We’ll watch as 300 workers custom build Panamera engines … all seven of them based on the amount of power the driver wants.
Log on http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/ultimate-factories/facts-porsche-panamera/
Sunday, January 8, 2012,
8-9 p.m.
TCM-Turner Classic Movie Channel
World History And Arts
Middle and High School
Joan OF Arc
This Oscar-winning movie is based on the true story of a farm girl whose religious faith unites France against British invaders during the Fifteenth Century . Guided by the voices that have spoken to her since she was thirteen, Jeanne travels from her home in Lorraine, at their instruction. The voices have commanded her to lead the French Dauphin Charles VII -- who is the prospective king of France--in battle against the British, first in Orleans but then in successive victories that rally the French people around Jeanne during the Hundred Years War. But Jeanne's growing stature--a threat to the monarchy--and the king's greed lead Charles to trade French autonomy for money. He makes a deal with the British, who then capture Jeanne, imprisoning her and subjecting her to a farcical trial whose only goal, despite the semblance of fairness, is to burn Jeanne at the stake as a heretic. The trial is led by the corrupt, politically motivated Pierre Cauchon who harangues and tortures Jeanne until she is nearly broken. But even her British persecutors cannot stop Jeanne from achieving sainthood with her immortality assured when she is burned at the stake. TV-PG
Log on http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/79785/Joan-of-Arc/articles.html and http://archive.joan-of-arc.org/
Monday, January 9, 2012
4-5 p.m.
Planet Green Channel
Geography and U.S. History
Elementary, Middle and High School
Natural Wonders: The Southern Rockies
As shown in this documentary, the Southern Rockies are an astonishing natural wonder. Rich with the history of Lewis and Clark, native Americans and European trailblazers searching for gold, this area is also teeming with animals in a timeless life-and-death drama. TV-G
Log on http://www.southernrockies.org/
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
4-5 p.m.
History Channel
Science
Elementary, Middle and High School
Modern Marvels: Heavy Metals
They are elements that occupy a select portion of the periodic table and are so essential to America's economic and military might that they are stored in the National Defense Stockpile in case of all-out war.
In this documentary the heavy metals surveyed include copper, uranium, lead, zinc, and nickel. It also takes a look at superalloys--consisting of steel combined with chromium, cobalt, and dozens of other heavy metals--that resist corrosion and perform increasingly elaborate functions.
Log on http://genesismission.jpl.nasa.gov/educate/scimodule/UnderElem/UnderElem_pdf/ModPerTableST.pdf
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
9-10 p.m.
PBS
U.S. History
Middle and High School
BILLY THE KID: AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
This documentary deconstructs the mythology of a notorious western outlaw. On April 28, 1881, 21-year-old Henry McCarty, alias Billy the Kid, just days from being hanged for murder, outfoxed his jailors and electrified the nation with the latest in a long line of daring escapes. Just a few weeks later, the notorious young outlaw was gunned down by an ambitious sheriff. Demonized by the lawman who killed him, the Kid was soon mythologized by a never-ending stream of dime-store romances and later, big-screen dramas. But in all the narratives, Billy the Kid’s real story has been obscured. Born to impoverished Irish immigrants, the Kid led a hardscrabble, itinerant life that became harder still when his mother died of tuberculosis. He came of age in a lawless corner of New Mexico, where an Irish immigrant ring held a vise-like grip on all money-making endeavors and the Mexican population was frequently cheated out of their property without recourse to the courts. Caught in the middle of a many-centuries-old Irish-English conflict playing out on the plains of the Southwest, the Kid captured national attention with his reckless violence. His fascination with Mexican culture, his flair for Spanish and his disdain for the Anglo authorities made him a hero of sorts to the Hispanic community, who hid him when the law came looking and mourned him when he was gone. TV-PG
Log on http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/introduction/billy-introduction
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
9-11 p.m.
PBS
U.S. History
Middle and High School
NOVA; Bombing Hitler’s Dams
In 1943, a squadron of British Lancaster bombers staged one of the most audacious raids in history — destroying two gigantic dams in Germany’s industrial heartland and cutting the water supply to arms factories — with a revolutionary bouncing bomb invented by British engineer Barnes Wallis. Wallis and the pilots of 617 Squadron dealt a mighty blow to the German war machine. This documentary re-creates the extreme engineering challenges faced by Wallis and the pilots with the aid of six spectacular experiments. Each represents a technical challenge that the “Dambusters” had to solve to make their mission a success. A team of experts — from dam engineers to explosives specialists — steps into the shoes of the Dambusters. They will adapt a vintage World War II DC4 to carry a bomb the size of an oil drum; train to drop it from a dangerously low altitude in pitch darkness; get it to bounce over obstacles and onto the target; and finally, at a test site in Canada with a 1:6 scale model of one of the German dams, try to repeat history. TV-PG
Log on http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/military/bombing-hitler-dams.html
Book TV Schedule
Saturday, January 7th
8am (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
"Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War"
Tony Horwitz
Approx. 58 min.
"Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War"
Tony Horwitz
1:30pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 3 min.
"Conquered Into Liberty: Two Centuries of Battles Along the Great Warpath That Made the American Way of War"
Eliot Cohen
Approx. 1 hr. 3 min.
"Conquered Into Liberty: Two Centuries of Battles Along the Great Warpath That Made the American Way of War"
Eliot Cohen
3pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 36 min.
"Founding Rivals - Madison vs. Monroe: The Bill of Rights and the Election That Saved a Nation"
Chris DeRose
Approx. 1 hr. 36 min.
"Founding Rivals - Madison vs. Monroe: The Bill of Rights and the Election That Saved a Nation"
Chris DeRose
5pm (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
"Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War"
Tony Horwitz
Approx. 58 min.
"Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War"
Tony Horwitz
6pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
Encore Booknotes: Paul Brace & Barbara Hinckley "Follow the Leader: Opinion Polls and the Modern Presidents"
Paul Brace; Barbara Hinckley
Approx. 56 min.
Encore Booknotes: Paul Brace & Barbara Hinckley "Follow the Leader: Opinion Polls and the Modern Presidents"
Paul Brace; Barbara Hinckley
8:45pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 14 min.
"Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics"
Steven Ross
Approx. 1 hr. 14 min.
"Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics"
Steven Ross
11pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 32 min.
"News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and American Media"
Juan Gonzalez; Joseph Torres
Approx. 1 hr. 32 min.
"News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and American Media"
Juan Gonzalez; Joseph Torres
Sunday, January 8th
12:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 36 min.
"Founding Rivals - Madison vs. Monroe: The Bill of Rights and the Election That Saved a Nation"
Chris DeRose
Approx. 1 hr. 36 min.
"Founding Rivals - Madison vs. Monroe: The Bill of Rights and the Election That Saved a Nation"
Chris DeRose
4am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 14 min.
"Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics"
Steven Ross
Approx. 1 hr. 14 min.
"Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics"
Steven Ross
5:30am (ET)
Approx. 50 min.
"December 1941: 31 Days That Changed America and Saved the World"
Craig Shirley
Approx. 50 min.
"December 1941: 31 Days That Changed America and Saved the World"
Craig Shirley
6:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 19 min.
"Ghosts of Afghanistan: Hard Truths and Foreign Myths"
Jonathan Steele
Approx. 1 hr. 19 min.
"Ghosts of Afghanistan: Hard Truths and Foreign Myths"
Jonathan Steele
8am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 3 min.
"Conquered Into Liberty: Two Centuries of Battles Along the Great Warpath That Made the American Way of War"
Eliot Cohen
Approx. 1 hr. 3 min.
"Conquered Into Liberty: Two Centuries of Battles Along the Great Warpath That Made the American Way of War"
Eliot Cohen
9am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.
"The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World"
Jeremy Rifkin
Approx. 1 hr.
"The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World"
Jeremy Rifkin
10am (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
"Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War"
Tony Horwitz
Approx. 58 min.
"Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War"
Tony Horwitz
1pm (ET)
Approx. 44 min.
University of Texas at Austin Interviews: Sanford Levinson, "Constitutional Faith"
Sanford Levinson
Approx. 44 min.
University of Texas at Austin Interviews: Sanford Levinson, "Constitutional Faith"
Sanford Levinson
2pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 32 min.
"News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and American Media"
Juan Gonzalez; Joseph Torres
Approx. 1 hr. 32 min.
"News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and American Media"
Juan Gonzalez; Joseph Torres
3:30pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 11 min.
"The Pakistan Cauldron: Conspiracy, Assassination & Instability"
James Farwell
Approx. 1 hr. 11 min.
"The Pakistan Cauldron: Conspiracy, Assassination & Instability"
James Farwell
7:15pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 36 min.
"Founding Rivals - Madison vs. Monroe: The Bill of Rights and the Election That Saved a Nation"
Chris DeRose
Approx. 1 hr. 36 min.
"Founding Rivals - Madison vs. Monroe: The Bill of Rights and the Election That Saved a Nation"
Chris DeRose
10pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 11 min.
"The Pakistan Cauldron: Conspiracy, Assassination & Instability"
James Farwell
Approx. 1 hr. 11 min.
"The Pakistan Cauldron: Conspiracy, Assassination & Instability"
James Farwell
Monday, January 9th
4am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 32 min.
"News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and American Media"
Juan Gonzalez; Joseph Torres
Approx. 1 hr. 32 min.
"News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and American Media"
Juan Gonzalez; Joseph Torres
5:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 11 min.
"The Pakistan Cauldron: Conspiracy, Assassination & Instability"
James Farwell
Approx. 1 hr. 11 min.
"The Pakistan Cauldron: Conspiracy, Assassination & Instability"
James Farwell
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