Media Menu: August 2013

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.

Thursday, August 29, 2013
7-9 p.m. E/P
PBS
World History and Geography
Middle and High School

Queen Victoria’s Empire: The Moral Crusade; The Scramble for Africa

Airing on KOCE, this is the final episode of a documentary miniseries about Britain’s empire. Four eminent Victorians---William Gladstone, Benjamin Disraeli, Gen. Charles "Chinese" Gordon and Cecil Rhodes---are the focus, which covers the final 40 years of Victoria's reign. Whether driven by profit, passion, or noble ideals, these figures would fuel an expansion unequaled in history, forever changing Britain and the lands it controlled. Personal accounts, lush reenactments, and evocative cinematography from former outposts of the Empire, including India and Africa, recount the dramatic clash of personalities and cultures that would drive Victoria's e 64-year reign.
Log on http://www.pbs.org/empires/victoria/about/index.html

Friday, August 30, 2013
8:45-11 p.m. PT
TCM – Turner Classic Movie Channel
Arts and Geography
Middle and High School

Lust For Life

This is a movie biography of painter Vincent van Gogh, whose genius drove him mad. Most of the picture was shot where Van Gogh lived and worked, including The Hague in the Netherlands and Arles in southern France. The production team even found two older citizens of Arles who had known Van Gogh 60 years earlier; one of them had sat for the painting "The Baby Roulin." Even on location, however, there were problems to be solved. Because Van Gogh's work was so well known, the film couldn't get away with showing scenes or landscapes that had been altered since the master painted them. In one case, they had to put a tree in the ground that had been removed since the original's depiction in a famous painting. TV-PG
Log on http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/291/Lust-for-Life/awards.html

Saturday, August 31, 2013
8-9 p.m. E/P
PBS
Arts and Technology
Middle and High School

Side By Side: The Science, Art and Impact of Digital Cinema

This documentary, airing on KOCE, examines the merits of traditional celluloid vs. digital film. It investigates the history, process and workflow of both digital and photochemical film creation. It show what artists and filmmakers have been able to accomplish with both film and digital, and how their needs and innovations have helped push filmmaking in new directions. Interviews with over 70 filmmakers and industry professionals including George Lucas, David Lynch, Lars von Trier, James Cameron, Steven Soderbergh, Christopher Nolan, David Fincher, Robert Rodriguez and Walter Murch, reveal their experiences and feelings about working with film and digital -- where we are now, how we got here and what the future may hold.
Log on http://sidebysidethemovie.com/

Sunday, September 1, 2013
7-8 p.m. E/P
PBS
World History
Middle and High School

The Jewish People: A Story of Survival

This documentary, airing on KOCE, tells the story of Jewish survival. From slavery to the loss of their homeland; from exile to anti-Semitism; from pogroms to near annihilation in the Holocaust, how did they endure while so many other communities have vanished? Hosted by Martha Teichner, Senior Correspondent for “CBS News/Sunday Morning, the program explores some of the answers.
Log on http://www.twocatstv.com/jewish-people/

Monday, September 2, 2013
7-8 p.m. E/P
PBS
U.S. History and Government
Middle and High School

Papers: Stories of Undocumented Youth

This documentary, airing on KOCE, is the story of undocumented youth and the challenges of turning 18 without legal status. Currently, there are more than 2 million undocumented children who were born outside the U.S. but raised in this country. 65,000 undocumented students graduate every year from high school without "papers" and find the door to the future slammed shut. It is against the law for them to work or drive, and it is difficult, if not impossible in some states, to attend college. Yet there is no path to citizenship for these young people who know only the U.S. as home and are at risk of being deported to countries they often do not remember. This is a story about coming of age, a look at the current immigration debate and how the custom of scapegoating continues to haunt America.
Log on http://worldchannel.org/programs/episode/papers-stories-undocumented-youth/

Tuesday, September 3, 2013
7-8 p.m. E/P
PBS
Economics and U.S. History
Middle and High School

Dreamland

This documentary, airing on KLCS, tells the story of one day in California. Filmed simultaneously from dawn until dusk on November 19, 2010, it follows a remarkable ensemble of Californians who are pushing the bounds of the possible. Entrepreneurs, daredevils, entertainers, scientists, politicians, chefs, and technologists who are all in California for the same reason: to make their dreams a reality.. The program chronicles one day in California, focusing on the experiences of rock climbers Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson; skateboarder Bob Burnquist; singer-songwriter Liz Phair; surfer-scientist Sarah Gerhardt; botanist Steve Sillett; WePay founders Bill Clerico and Rich Aberman; Sacramento mayor Kevin Johnson; Patagonia owner Yvon Chouinard; L.A. chef Susan Feniger; and special-effects designer Bran Ferren.
Log on http://thedocumentarygroup.com/portfolio/dreamland

Wednesday, September 4, 2013
8-9 p.m. E/P
PBS
Geography and U.S. History
Elementary, Middle and High School

Earthflight, A Nature Special Presentation: North America

This documentary, airing on KOCE, is a bird's-eye tour of North America. What would it be like to see the world from a bird’s perspective? To experience riding on the backs of bald eagles and snow geese or flying alongside a flock of brown pelicans as they scan and dive for fish in the ocean below. State-of-the-art technology and sophisticated camera techniques have now made it possible to do just that. Producer John Downer and his team took four years to film more than 100 bird species, using strategically placed cameras, including tiny HD cameras placed on the backs of trained birds. Fly with with snow geese, pelicans and bald eagles across the Great Plains, Grand Canyon, Alaska, New York City and the Golden Gate Bridge.
Log on http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/earthflight/introduction/8388/

Book TV Schedule

Saturday, August 31st

8am (ET)
Approx. 45 min.
"Collusion: How the Media Stole the 2012 Election and How to Stop Them from Doing It in 2016"
Brent Bozell

8:45am (ET)
Approx. 36 min.
"The Manor: Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation on Long Island"
Mac Griswold

9:30am (ET)
Approx. 45 min.
2013 Roosevelt Reading Festival: Christopher O'Sullivan, "FDR and the End of Empire: The Origins of American Power in the Middle East"
Christopher O'Sullivan

10:15am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 39 min.
Panel on Civil Liberties and Security in the Age of Terrorism with Robert Higgs and Anthony Gregory
Anthony Gregory; Robert Higgs

12pm (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
"Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877"
Brenda Wineapple

1pm (ET)
Approx. 18 min.
2013 Eagle Forum Collegians Summit: Hans von Spakovsky, "Who's Counting?: How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk"
Hans von Spakovsky

1:30pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 23 min.
"Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History"
Eduardo Galeano

3pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 9 min.
"Chinese Girl in the Ghetto"
Ying Ma

4:15pm (ET)
Approx. 29 min.
Book TV in London: Charles Emmerson
Charles Emmerson

4:45pm (ET)
Approx. 16 min.
2013 Book Expo America: Fall Book Preview with Erica Jong, "Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition"
Erica Jong

5pm (ET)
Approx. 55 min.
"Syria: The Fall of the House of Assad"
David Lesch

6pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
Encore Booknotes: Monica Crowley, "Nixon Off The Record"
Monica Crowley

7pm (ET)
Approx. 43 min.
2013 Roosevelt Reading Festival: Susan Dunn, "1940: FDR, Wilkie, Lindbergh, Hitler - the Election Amid the Storm"
Susan Dunn

7:45pm (ET)
Approx. 47 min.
"The NYPD Tapes: A Shocking Story of Cops, Cover-ups, and Courage"
Graham Rayman

8:30pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 18 min.
"Writing from Left to Right: My Journey From Liberal to Conservative"
Michael Novak

10pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.
After Words: Craig Steven Wilder, "Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities," hosted by Joe Madison

11pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 3 min.
"Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson"
Jeff Guinn

Sunday, September 1st

12am (ET)
Approx. 14 min.
2013 Book Expo America: Fall Book Preview with Ishmael Beah, "Radiance of Tomorrow"
Ishmael Beah

12:15am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 8 min.
"The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies"
Jonathan Alter

1:30am (ET)
Approx. 15 min.
Book TV at the Hoover Institution: Peter Berkowitz, "Constitutional Conservatism: Liberty, Self-Government, and Political Moderation"
Peter Berkowitz

1:45am (ET)
Approx. 46 min.
2013 Gaithersburg Book Festival: Kitty Kelley “Capturing Camelot: Stanley Tretick’s Iconic Images of the Kennedys”
Kitty Kelley

2:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 4 min.
"Money, Gold, and History"
Lewis Lehrman

3:45am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 17 min.
2013 Harlem Book Fair: Science & Health Panel
Sheldon Krimsky; Jonathan Metzl; Alondra Nelson; Samuel Roberts; Harriet Washington