Wednesday, November 2, 2011,
8-9 p.m. E/P
PBS
Science
Middle and High School
NOVA: The Fabric of the Cosmos: What Is Space
This is the initial episode of a 4 part science miniseries which accompanies physicist and acclaimed author Brian Greene on a mind-bending reality check and journey to the frontiers of physics to see how scientists are piecing together the most complete picture yet of space, time and the universe. Based on his book, “ The Fabric of the Cosmos”, the program goes beneath the surface of our everyday experience lies a world we’d hardly recognize—a startling world far stranger and more wondrous than anyone expected. “What Is Space” is the title of this initial episode. To most of us, space is nothing, an empty void. It turns out space is not what it seems. From the passenger seat of a New York cab driving near the speed of light to a pool hall where billiard tables do fantastical things, Brian Greene reveals space as a dynamic fabric that can stretch, twist, warp, and ripple under the influence of gravity. Stranger still is a newly discovered ingredient of space that actually makes up 70 percent of the universe. Physicists call it dark energy because while they know it's out there, driving space to expand ever more quickly, they have no idea what it is. Some of the strangest places in space, black holes, have led scientists to propose that like the hologram on your credit card, space may just be a projection of a deeper two-dimensional reality, taking place on a distant surface that surrounds us. TV-G. Episodes follow on November 9, 16 and 23.
Log on http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/fabric-of-the-cosmos.html
Thursday, November 3, 2011,
10-11 p.m. E/P
History Channel
Economics and Geography
Elementary, Middle and High School
Harvest: Race To Redemption
Every year, deep in America's heartland, there's a race against nature as old as farming itself. From May to September, a group of hardworking men battle weather, machines and each other as they move south to north harvesting crops. Driving huge combines across thousands of miles, they contract work from America's small farmers, combating hail, tornadoes, fire, mechanical trouble and total exhaustion. It's a high stakes gamble for themselves and the people who hire them. This documentary follows three contrasting teams of harvesters, showing the danger and rewards of this little known world. This year, the stakes are higher than ever as the one of history's deadliest drought and tornado seasons bears down on the heartland, killing more than 500 people and leaving behind billions of dollars in damage. As these hard-core harvesters, driving monster machines, dash from one job to the next, they are only one mistake away from losing a job--or their lives. The clock is always ticking, and man, machine or Mother Nature could wipe them out at any moment, but like true American heroes, filled with courage and grit, they put their lives on the line every day, because they love what they do.
Log on http://www.history.com/shows/harvest
Friday, November 4, 2011,
7-8 p.m. E/P
History Channel
Technology and World History
High School
Modern Marvels: Brewing
It's one of the world's oldest beverages--revered by Pharaohs and brewed by America's Founding Fathers. Today, brewing is a multi-billion-dollar global industry. This documentary looks at brewing's history from prehistoric times to today's cutting-edge craft breweries, focusing on its gradually evolving technologies and breakthroughs. We'll find the earliest known traces of brewing, which sprang up independently in such far-flung places as ancient Sumeria, China, and Finland; examine the surprising importance that beer held in the daily and ceremonial life of ancient Egypt; and at Delaware's Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, an adventurous anthropologist and a cutting-edge brewer show us the beer they've concocted based on 2,700-year-old DNA found in drinking vessels from the funerary of the legendary King Midas.
Log on http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/stack.brewing.industry.history.us
Saturday, November 5, 2011,
8-9 p.m. E/P
National Geographic Channel
U.S. History and Technology
Middle and High School
CIA Confidential: Inside the Drone War
This is a documentary about the invisible warriors in Iraq, Afghanistan and most recently Libya. But drones, the CIA's elusive, unmanned counterterrorism war planes, add a new level of danger for CIA operatives in the field. After a string of drone attacks on key al-Qaida and Taliban leadership, an undercover Taliban sympathizer penetrates deep into the heart of drone war headquarters and detonates a suicide vest, killing seven of the CIA's most effective officers.
Log on http://abcnews.go.com/WN/inside-predator-drones-game-changing-technology-war-afghanistan/story?id=9543587
Sunday, November 6, 2011,
8-9 p.m. E/P
CNN
Science and Economics
Elementary, Middle and High School
Sharks: From Predator To Prey
Shark attacks make good headlines… but your odds of getting bit are slim, really slim. Globally sharks are in steep decline. Commercial fishing and a growing demand for their fins is taking millions of sharks out of our oceans. These predators long feared by man now have something to fear from us. This documentary brings viewers face to face with sharks and reveals how the threat to them also threatens our environment.
Log on http://cnnpresents.blogs.cnn.com/2011/10/28/sharks-from-predator-to-prey/
Monday, November 7, 2011,
10-11p.m. E/P
PBS
U.S. History
Middle and High School
Looking For Lincoln – Part 1 of 2
Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. separates facts from myths surrounding Abraham Lincoln in this documentary miniseries about the life and legacy of America's 16th president. In the film, Gates shows how the Lincoln legend grew out of controversy, greed, love, clashing political perspectives, power struggles, and considerable disagreement over how our 16th president should be remembered. His quest to piece together Lincoln’s complex life takes him from Illinois to Gettysburg to Washington, D.C., and face-to-face with people who live with Lincoln every day – relic hunters, re-enactors, and others for whom the study of Lincoln is a passion. Among those weighing in: Pulitzer Prize winners Doris Kearns Goodwin and Tony Kushner; presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush; and Lincoln scholars including Harold Holzer, vice chair of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission; Harvard University’s president Drew Faust and history professor David Hebert Donald; Yale University history professor David Blight; and Allen Guelzo of Gettysburg College. Former Ebony magazine editor Lerone Bennett challenges Lincoln’s record on race; writer Joshua Shenk talks about Lincoln’s depression; and New Yorker staff writer Adam Gopnik illuminates how Lincoln’s words changed the course of history. Part 2 airs in this timeslot November 14. TV-PG
Log on http://www.pbs.org/wnet/lookingforlincoln/
Tuesday, November 8, 2011,
9-10 p.m. E/P
PBS
World History
Middle and High School
FRONTLINE: Syria Undercover
To make this documentary reporter Ramita Navai traveled into Syria to meet members of the opposition movement, which has faced a violent crackdown by the government. Navai's journey takes her to the besieged town of Madaya, where she becomes trapped in a safe house with opposition leaders. But she was also able to report on the secret hospitals Syrian activists have set up in order to avoid the government’s brutal crackdown on wounded activists in state-run hospitals. “It’s a shocking scene. Every single patient we met had gunshot injuries, including children. Everything is makeshift and they don’t have enough equipment.”
Log on http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/syria-undercover/
Tuesday, November 8, 2011,
9-11 p.m. E/P
History Channel
U.S. and World
Middle and High School
Vietnam in HD: The Beginning (1964-1965)/Search & Destroy (1966-1967)
This is the premier of a 6 hour miniseries, airing November 8, 9 and 10th, 2 episodes each night . Those who lived through the Vietnam War era will never forget the way it changed their lives and profoundly affected world politics. But for many young people, the war in Vietnam is a conflict they may know very little about. This series captures the war through eyes of those who experienced it firsthand. Culled from thousands of hours of rarely seen footage, much of it taken by soldiers and combat journalists, this series touches down into the drama of the war at key turning points. Narrated by actor Michael C. Hall, the series covers many of the major events in the war from its origins through the Fall of Saigon in 1975. The words and recollections of ten Vietnam War veterans, an Army nurse, the wife of a POW, and an UPI reporter are voiced by popular actors throughout the series. Viewers will also see how the war unfolded against a backdrop of domestic change and upheaval within the U.S. Vietnam in HD tells the story of the Vietnam War to a new generation of viewers, giving them insights into the causes and consequences of this tumultuous era. Rated TV-14
Log on http://www.history.com/shows/vietnam-in-hd
Wednesday, November 9, 2011,
9-10 p.m. E/P
National Geographic Channel
Science and World History
Middle and High School
Forbidden Tomb of Genghis Khan
Can technology solve an 800-year-old mystery and locate the tomb of the legendary warrior Genghis Khan? This documentary journeys to Mongolia's "Forbidden Zone" with a team led by National Geographic Emerging Explorer Albert Lin, who hopes to virtually "excavate" the tomb without moving a single rock using sophisticated ground penetrating imagery.
Log on http://natgeotv.com/asia/forbidden-tomb-of-genghis-khan/about
Book TV Schedule
Saturday, November 5th
8am (ET)
Approx. 45 min.
2011 National Book Festival: Edmund Morris, "Colonel Roosevelt"
Edmund Morris
Approx. 45 min.
2011 National Book Festival: Edmund Morris, "Colonel Roosevelt"
Edmund Morris
8:45am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 3 min.
"Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World"
Lisa Randall
Approx. 1 hr. 3 min.
"Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World"
Lisa Randall
10am (ET)
Approx. 57 min.
"Black and Tired: Essays on Race, Politics, Culture, and International Development"
Anthony Bradley
Approx. 57 min.
"Black and Tired: Essays on Race, Politics, Culture, and International Development"
Anthony Bradley
11am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 34 min.
"That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back"
Thomas Friedman; Michael Mandelbaum
Approx. 1 hr. 34 min.
"That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back"
Thomas Friedman; Michael Mandelbaum
12:30pm (ET)
Approx. 20 min.
"The Unexpected Patriot: How an Ordinary American Mother Is Bringing Terrorists to Justice"
Shannen Rossmiller
Approx. 20 min.
"The Unexpected Patriot: How an Ordinary American Mother Is Bringing Terrorists to Justice"
Shannen Rossmiller
1pm (ET)
Approx. 57 min.
2011 Brooklyn Book Festival - "Arab Spring and the Seasons Ahead"
Sinan Antoon; Yasmine El Rashidi; Lucette Lagnado; Hisham Matar
Approx. 57 min.
2011 Brooklyn Book Festival - "Arab Spring and the Seasons Ahead"
Sinan Antoon; Yasmine El Rashidi; Lucette Lagnado; Hisham Matar
2pm (ET)
Approx. 55 min.
2011 Brooklyn Book Festival - Labor Panel
William Adler; Brian Purnell; Clarence Taylor
Approx. 55 min.
2011 Brooklyn Book Festival - Labor Panel
William Adler; Brian Purnell; Clarence Taylor
4pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 4 min.
"A Point in Time: The Search for Redemption in this Life and the Next"
David Horowitz
Approx. 1 hr. 4 min.
"A Point in Time: The Search for Redemption in this Life and the Next"
David Horowitz
5:15pm (ET)
Approx. 44 min.
2011 National Book Festival: Eugene Robinson, "Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America"
Eugene Robinson
Approx. 44 min.
2011 National Book Festival: Eugene Robinson, "Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America"
Eugene Robinson
8:30pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 12 min.
"Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike that Changed America"
Joseph McCartin
Approx. 1 hr. 12 min.
"Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike that Changed America"
Joseph McCartin
11pm (ET)
Approx. 57 min.
2011 Brooklyn Book Festival - "Arab Spring and the Seasons Ahead"
Sinan Antoon; Yasmine El Rashidi; Lucette Lagnado; Hisham Matar
Approx. 57 min.
2011 Brooklyn Book Festival - "Arab Spring and the Seasons Ahead"
Sinan Antoon; Yasmine El Rashidi; Lucette Lagnado; Hisham Matar
Sunday, November 6th
12am (ET)
Approx. 55 min.
2011 Brooklyn Book Festival - Labor Panel
William Adler; Brian Purnell; Clarence Taylor
Approx. 55 min.
2011 Brooklyn Book Festival - Labor Panel
William Adler; Brian Purnell; Clarence Taylor
5:30am (ET)
Approx. 57 min.
"The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens"
Brooke Hauser
Approx. 57 min.
"The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens"
Brooke Hauser
7:45am (ET)
Approx. 52 min.
"Retirement Heist: How Companies Plunder and Profit from the Nest Eggs of American Workers"
Ellen Schultz
Approx. 52 min.
"Retirement Heist: How Companies Plunder and Profit from the Nest Eggs of American Workers"
Ellen Schultz
9am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 13 min.
"Constitution Cafe: Jefferson's Brew for a True Revolution"
Christopher Phillips
Approx. 1 hr. 13 min.
"Constitution Cafe: Jefferson's Brew for a True Revolution"
Christopher Phillips
10:15am (ET)
Approx. 40 min.
2011 National Book Festival: Justin Martin, "Genius of Place: The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted"
Justin Martin
Approx. 40 min.
2011 National Book Festival: Justin Martin, "Genius of Place: The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted"
Justin Martin
3pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 16 min.
"Reimagining Equality: Stories of Gender, Race, and Finding Home"
Anita Hill
Approx. 1 hr. 16 min.
"Reimagining Equality: Stories of Gender, Race, and Finding Home"
Anita Hill
4:30pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 12 min.
"Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris, The Rake Who Wrote the Constitution"
Richard Brookhiser
Approx. 1 hr. 12 min.
"Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris, The Rake Who Wrote the Constitution"
Richard Brookhiser
7:15pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 34 min.
"That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back"
Thomas Friedman; Michael Mandelbaum
Approx. 1 hr. 34 min.
"That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back"
Thomas Friedman; Michael Mandelbaum
11:30pm (ET)
Approx. 21 min.
George Mason University Interviews: Colin Dueck, "Hard Line: The Republican Party and U.S. Foreign Policy Since World War II"
Colin Dueck
Approx. 21 min.
George Mason University Interviews: Colin Dueck, "Hard Line: The Republican Party and U.S. Foreign Policy Since World War II"
Colin Dueck
Monday, November 7th
5:15am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 34 min.
"That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back"
Thomas Friedman; Michael Mandelbaum
Approx. 1 hr. 34 min.
"That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back"
Thomas Friedman; Michael Mandelbaum
Approx. 59 min.
"Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America"
Cameron McWhirter
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