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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 25, 2012,
5-6 p.m.
History Channel
U.S. History
Middle and High School
How The States Got Their Shapes: Church and States
As shown in this documentary, ever since the Pilgrims boarded the Mayflower, what we believe and how we believe has shaped the American map. Could Utah have been bigger than Texas? How did religion shatter New England into such odd little shapes? And did the Civil War actually begin... in Kansas? TV-PG
Log on http://www.history.com/shows/how-the-states-got-their-shapes
Wednesday, January 25, 2012,
8-9 p.m.
PBS
Science and Geography
Middle and High School
NATURE: Fortress of the Bears
Part of the massive Tongass National Forest, Admiralty Island in southeast Alaska supports the largest concentration of bears anywhere in the world. Sustained by a wealth of salmon streams, isolated and protected by their environment, some 1,700 Alaskan brown bears are part of a unique circle of life that has played out here for centuries. Beginning in August, millions of salmon — pink and chum, coho and sockeye — return to the island to spawn, providing a feast for the bears, eagles, orcas, sea lions and even the trees. As long as the salmon continue to arrive, all is well. But this year, as shown in this documentary, the salmon fail to arrive for the first time, and the bears get a bitter taste of what the future may hold. TV-PG
Log on http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/fortress-of-the-bears/introduction/7475/
Thursday, January 26, 2012,
7-8 p.m.
National Geographic Channel
Science
Middle and High School
Finding the Next Earth
This documentary follows astronomers as they enter the final lap in a race to find a planet capable of sustaining life, a world like ours, the next Earth. See the launch of Frances CoRot and Americas Kepler missions, and the smoking hot worlds they discover. See a controversial and tantalizing discovery of a planet where life could exist in a strange twilight zone, that is, if the planet really exists. Astronomers are working to determine what conditions are necessary for life to exist, and they are building the radical James Webb Space Telescope, a spacecraft that can look at the atmosphere around a planet and reveal whether or not life as we know it actually exists.
Log on http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57336848/nasa-finding-feeds-talk-of-a-new-earth/
Friday, January 27, 2012,
9:30-10 p.m.
Science Channel
Science and Technology
Elementary, Middle and High School
How It's Made
Shown in this documentary are short reports on procedures for making Carbon Fiber Bicycles, Blood Products and Ballpoint Pens. TV-G
Log on http://science.discovery.com/tv/how-its-made/#fbid=O-QGtRbqCtv
Saturday, January 28, 2012,
8-10 p.m.
History Channel
U.S. and World History
Middle and High School
Pearl Harbor: 24 Hours After
This documentary offers an in-depth look at the critical 24-hour period after news of Japan's attack on U.S. soil in 1941 reached the President. Drawing on exhaustive research and new information provided by the FDR Library, the special gives a rare and surprising glimpse at the man behind the Presidency and how he confronted the enormous challenge of transitioning the nation from peace to war. There was no direct phone line between Pearl Harbor and the White House. As information slowly trickled in and word of the bombing got out, panic gripped the White House. FDR's unique style of leadership enabled him to galvanize the American people in the wake of a grave and potentially demoralizing attack. The special features historian Steven M. Gillon, author of the recently released “Pearl Harbor: FDR Leads the Nation Into War” TV-PG
Log on http://www.history.com/topics/pearl-harbor
Sunday, January 29, 2012,
7-8 p.m.
Discovery Channel
U.S. History and Government
Middle and High School
Secrets of the Secret Service
This documentary investigates America's most mysterious law enforcement agency. Classified technology, secret strategies, deception, and human courage combine to provide the best protection possible. The program includes interviews with ex-agents and a former White House press secretary, and examines everything from the service’s training techniques to the protocols used when the President is aboard Air Force One. As well as protecting the President of the United States, the Secret Service also investigates the counterfeiting of US currency. TV-PG
Log on http://blogs.yourdiscovery.com/whats-new/2010/12/secrets-of-the-secret-service.html and http://www.secretservice.gov/history.shtml
Monday, January 30, 2012,
5:45-8 p.m. ET, 3:45-5 p.m. PT
TCM – Turner Classic Movie Channel
U.S. History
Middle and High School
Above And Beyond
This Oscar-nominated film tells the story behind the dropping of the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima during World War II. However, instead of the focus being on the development of the bomb itself, this one is told from the perspective of the Air Force Colonel in charge of the mission which conducted the mission itself. Robert Taylor plays Colonel Paul Tibbets, pilot of the Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber which flew the mission and delivered the payload. Eleanor Parker plays Tibbets's wife Lucy, and much of the story focuses on the effect this mission had on Tibbets and his family. TV-PG
Log on http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/1419/Above-and-Beyond
Tuesday, January 31, 2012,
8-9 p.m.
PBS
U.S. History
Middle and High School
ANNIE OAKLEY: AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
This is a documentary about the star of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, the young woman who thrilled audiences around the world with her daring shooting feats. While her act helped fuel turn-of-the-century nostalgia for the vanished, mythical world of the American West, the legend of Annie Oakley had little to do with the real Annie. Although famous as a western sharpshooter, Oakley lived her entire life east of the Mississippi. A champion in a man's sport, Oakley forever changed ideas about the abilities of women, yet she opposed female suffrage. Her fame and fortune came from her skill with guns, a concept that was counter to her Quaker upbringing. TV-PG
Log on http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/introduction/oakley-introduction
Wednesday, February 1, 2012,
9-10 p.m.
PBS
Science and Geography
Elementary, Middle and High School
NOVA: Ice Age Death Trap
Racing against developers in the Rockies, the archaeologists in this documentary uncover a unique site packed with astonishingly preserved bones of mammoths, mastodons and other giant extinct beasts. The discovery opens a highly focused window on the vanished world of the Ice Age in North America. TV_G
Log on http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/earth/ice-age-death-trap.html
Book TV Schedule
Wednesday, January 25, 2012,
5-6 p.m.
History Channel
U.S. History
Middle and High School
How The States Got Their Shapes: Church and States
As shown in this documentary, ever since the Pilgrims boarded the Mayflower, what we believe and how we believe has shaped the American map. Could Utah have been bigger than Texas? How did religion shatter New England into such odd little shapes? And did the Civil War actually begin... in Kansas? TV-PG
Log on http://www.history.com/shows/how-the-states-got-their-shapes
Wednesday, January 25, 2012,
8-9 p.m.
PBS
Science and Geography
Middle and High School
NATURE: Fortress of the Bears
Part of the massive Tongass National Forest, Admiralty Island in southeast Alaska supports the largest concentration of bears anywhere in the world. Sustained by a wealth of salmon streams, isolated and protected by their environment, some 1,700 Alaskan brown bears are part of a unique circle of life that has played out here for centuries. Beginning in August, millions of salmon — pink and chum, coho and sockeye — return to the island to spawn, providing a feast for the bears, eagles, orcas, sea lions and even the trees. As long as the salmon continue to arrive, all is well. But this year, as shown in this documentary, the salmon fail to arrive for the first time, and the bears get a bitter taste of what the future may hold. TV-PG
Log on http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/fortress-of-the-bears/introduction/7475/
Thursday, January 26, 2012,
7-8 p.m.
National Geographic Channel
Science
Middle and High School
Finding the Next Earth
This documentary follows astronomers as they enter the final lap in a race to find a planet capable of sustaining life, a world like ours, the next Earth. See the launch of Frances CoRot and Americas Kepler missions, and the smoking hot worlds they discover. See a controversial and tantalizing discovery of a planet where life could exist in a strange twilight zone, that is, if the planet really exists. Astronomers are working to determine what conditions are necessary for life to exist, and they are building the radical James Webb Space Telescope, a spacecraft that can look at the atmosphere around a planet and reveal whether or not life as we know it actually exists.
Log on http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57336848/nasa-finding-feeds-talk-of-a-new-earth/
Friday, January 27, 2012,
9:30-10 p.m.
Science Channel
Science and Technology
Elementary, Middle and High School
How It's Made
Shown in this documentary are short reports on procedures for making Carbon Fiber Bicycles, Blood Products and Ballpoint Pens. TV-G
Log on http://science.discovery.com/tv/how-its-made/#fbid=O-QGtRbqCtv
Saturday, January 28, 2012,
8-10 p.m.
History Channel
U.S. and World History
Middle and High School
Pearl Harbor: 24 Hours After
This documentary offers an in-depth look at the critical 24-hour period after news of Japan's attack on U.S. soil in 1941 reached the President. Drawing on exhaustive research and new information provided by the FDR Library, the special gives a rare and surprising glimpse at the man behind the Presidency and how he confronted the enormous challenge of transitioning the nation from peace to war. There was no direct phone line between Pearl Harbor and the White House. As information slowly trickled in and word of the bombing got out, panic gripped the White House. FDR's unique style of leadership enabled him to galvanize the American people in the wake of a grave and potentially demoralizing attack. The special features historian Steven M. Gillon, author of the recently released “Pearl Harbor: FDR Leads the Nation Into War” TV-PG
Log on http://www.history.com/topics/pearl-harbor
Sunday, January 29, 2012,
7-8 p.m.
Discovery Channel
U.S. History and Government
Middle and High School
Secrets of the Secret Service
This documentary investigates America's most mysterious law enforcement agency. Classified technology, secret strategies, deception, and human courage combine to provide the best protection possible. The program includes interviews with ex-agents and a former White House press secretary, and examines everything from the service’s training techniques to the protocols used when the President is aboard Air Force One. As well as protecting the President of the United States, the Secret Service also investigates the counterfeiting of US currency. TV-PG
Log on http://blogs.yourdiscovery.com/whats-new/2010/12/secrets-of-the-secret-service.html and http://www.secretservice.gov/history.shtml
Monday, January 30, 2012,
5:45-8 p.m. ET, 3:45-5 p.m. PT
TCM – Turner Classic Movie Channel
U.S. History
Middle and High School
Above And Beyond
This Oscar-nominated film tells the story behind the dropping of the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima during World War II. However, instead of the focus being on the development of the bomb itself, this one is told from the perspective of the Air Force Colonel in charge of the mission which conducted the mission itself. Robert Taylor plays Colonel Paul Tibbets, pilot of the Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber which flew the mission and delivered the payload. Eleanor Parker plays Tibbets's wife Lucy, and much of the story focuses on the effect this mission had on Tibbets and his family. TV-PG
Log on http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/1419/Above-and-Beyond
Tuesday, January 31, 2012,
8-9 p.m.
PBS
U.S. History
Middle and High School
ANNIE OAKLEY: AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
This is a documentary about the star of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, the young woman who thrilled audiences around the world with her daring shooting feats. While her act helped fuel turn-of-the-century nostalgia for the vanished, mythical world of the American West, the legend of Annie Oakley had little to do with the real Annie. Although famous as a western sharpshooter, Oakley lived her entire life east of the Mississippi. A champion in a man's sport, Oakley forever changed ideas about the abilities of women, yet she opposed female suffrage. Her fame and fortune came from her skill with guns, a concept that was counter to her Quaker upbringing. TV-PG
Log on http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/introduction/oakley-introduction
Wednesday, February 1, 2012,
9-10 p.m.
PBS
Science and Geography
Elementary, Middle and High School
NOVA: Ice Age Death Trap
Racing against developers in the Rockies, the archaeologists in this documentary uncover a unique site packed with astonishingly preserved bones of mammoths, mastodons and other giant extinct beasts. The discovery opens a highly focused window on the vanished world of the Ice Age in North America. TV_G
Log on http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/earth/ice-age-death-trap.html
Book TV Schedule
Saturday, January 28th
8am (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
"A Soldier's Dream: Captain Travis Patriquin and the Awakening of Iraq"
William Doyle
Approx. 58 min.
"A Soldier's Dream: Captain Travis Patriquin and the Awakening of Iraq"
William Doyle
10:45am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 1 min.
"Rights Gone Wrong: How Law Corrupts the Struggle for Equality"
Richard Thompson Ford
Approx. 1 hr. 1 min.
"Rights Gone Wrong: How Law Corrupts the Struggle for Equality"
Richard Thompson Ford
12pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 2 min.
"Throw Them All Out: How Politicians and Their Friends Get Rich Off Insider Stock Tips, Land Deals, and Cronyism That Would Send the Rest of Us to Prison"
Peter Schweizer
Approx. 1 hr. 2 min.
"Throw Them All Out: How Politicians and Their Friends Get Rich Off Insider Stock Tips, Land Deals, and Cronyism That Would Send the Rest of Us to Prison"
Peter Schweizer
2pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 35 min.
"An American Betrayal: Cherokee Patriots and the Trail of Tears"
Daniel Blake Smith
Approx. 1 hr. 35 min.
"An American Betrayal: Cherokee Patriots and the Trail of Tears"
Daniel Blake Smith
7pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 28 min.
"Getting Steamed to Overcome Corporatism: Building it Together to Win"
Ralph Nader
Approx. 1 hr. 28 min.
"Getting Steamed to Overcome Corporatism: Building it Together to Win"
Ralph Nader
8:30pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 1 min.
"Rights Gone Wrong: How Law Corrupts the Struggle for Equality"
Richard Thompson Ford
Approx. 1 hr. 1 min.
"Rights Gone Wrong: How Law Corrupts the Struggle for Equality"
Richard Thompson Ford
11pm (ET)
Approx. 49 min.
"The New Vichy Syndrome: Why European Intellectuals Surrender to Barbarism"
Theodore Dalrymple
Approx. 49 min.
"The New Vichy Syndrome: Why European Intellectuals Surrender to Barbarism"
Theodore Dalrymple
Sunday, January 29th
12am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 7 min.
"I Know Who You Are And I Saw What You Did: Social Networks and the Death of Privacy"
Lori Andrews
Approx. 1 hr. 7 min.
"I Know Who You Are And I Saw What You Did: Social Networks and the Death of Privacy"
Lori Andrews
1:15am (ET)
Approx. 38 min.
"Scorched Earth: Legacies of Chemical Warfare in Vietnam"
Noam Chomsky; Fred Wilcox
Approx. 38 min.
"Scorched Earth: Legacies of Chemical Warfare in Vietnam"
Noam Chomsky; Fred Wilcox
5am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 17 min.
"The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good"
Robert Frank
Approx. 1 hr. 17 min.
"The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good"
Robert Frank
6:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 35 min.
"An American Betrayal: Cherokee Patriots and the Trail of Tears"
Daniel Blake Smith
Approx. 1 hr. 35 min.
"An American Betrayal: Cherokee Patriots and the Trail of Tears"
Daniel Blake Smith
8:30am (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
"The Man Who Never Died: The Life, Times, and Legacy of Joe Hill, American Labor Icon"
William Adler
Approx. 56 min.
"The Man Who Never Died: The Life, Times, and Legacy of Joe Hill, American Labor Icon"
William Adler
9:30am (ET)
Approx. 49 min.
"The New Vichy Syndrome: Why European Intellectuals Surrender to Barbarism"
Theodore Dalrymple
Approx. 49 min.
"The New Vichy Syndrome: Why European Intellectuals Surrender to Barbarism"
Theodore Dalrymple
10:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 28 min.
"Getting Steamed to Overcome Corporatism: Building it Together to Win"
Ralph Nader
Approx. 1 hr. 28 min.
"Getting Steamed to Overcome Corporatism: Building it Together to Win"
Ralph Nader
1pm (ET)
Approx. 9 min.
University of Maryland Interviews: Carol Graham, "The Pursuit of Happiness: An Economy of Well-Being"
Carol Graham
Approx. 9 min.
University of Maryland Interviews: Carol Graham, "The Pursuit of Happiness: An Economy of Well-Being"
Carol Graham
1:10pm (ET)
Approx. 17 min.
George Mason University Interviews: Meredith Lair, "Armed with Abundance: Consumerism and Soldiering in the Vietnam War"
Meredith Lair
Approx. 17 min.
George Mason University Interviews: Meredith Lair, "Armed with Abundance: Consumerism and Soldiering in the Vietnam War"
Meredith Lair
1:30pm (ET)
Approx. 19 min.
University of Texas at Austin Interviews: Ami Pedahzur, "The Israeli Secret Services and the Struggle Against Terrorism"
Ami Pedahzur
Approx. 19 min.
University of Texas at Austin Interviews: Ami Pedahzur, "The Israeli Secret Services and the Struggle Against Terrorism"
Ami Pedahzur
1:50pm (ET)
Approx. 8 min.
University of Chicago Interview: David Strauss, “The Living Constitution”
David Strauss
Approx. 8 min.
University of Chicago Interview: David Strauss, “The Living Constitution”
David Strauss
2pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 7 min.
"I Know Who You Are And I Saw What You Did: Social Networks and the Death of Privacy"
Lori Andrews
Approx. 1 hr. 7 min.
"I Know Who You Are And I Saw What You Did: Social Networks and the Death of Privacy"
Lori Andrews
3:15pm (ET)
Approx. 40 min.
"Life Upon These Shores: Looking At African American History 1500-2008"
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Approx. 40 min.
"Life Upon These Shores: Looking At African American History 1500-2008"
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
4pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 35 min.
"An American Betrayal: Cherokee Patriots and the Trail of Tears"
Daniel Blake Smith
Approx. 1 hr. 35 min.
"An American Betrayal: Cherokee Patriots and the Trail of Tears"
Daniel Blake Smith
6pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
At the Edge of Precipice: Henry Clay and the Compromise that Saved the Union
Robert Remini
Approx. 56 min.
At the Edge of Precipice: Henry Clay and the Compromise that Saved the Union
Robert Remini
7pm (ET)
Approx. 49 min.
"The New Vichy Syndrome: Why European Intellectuals Surrender to Barbarism"
Theodore Dalrymple
Approx. 49 min.
"The New Vichy Syndrome: Why European Intellectuals Surrender to Barbarism"
Theodore Dalrymple
10pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 7 min.
"I Know Who You Are And I Saw What You Did: Social Networks and the Death of Privacy"
Lori Andrews
Approx. 1 hr. 7 min.
"I Know Who You Are And I Saw What You Did: Social Networks and the Death of Privacy"
Lori Andrews
Monday, January 30th
1am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 28 min.
"Getting Steamed to Overcome Corporatism: Building it Together to Win"
Ralph Nader
Approx. 1 hr. 28 min.
"Getting Steamed to Overcome Corporatism: Building it Together to Win"
Ralph Nader
2:30am (ET)
Approx. 28 min.
University of Maryland Interviews: Philip Joyce, "The Congressional Budget Office: Honest Numbers, Power, and Policymaking"
Philip Joyce
Approx. 28 min.
University of Maryland Interviews: Philip Joyce, "The Congressional Budget Office: Honest Numbers, Power, and Policymaking"
Philip Joyce
4am (ET)
Approx. 49 min.
"The New Vichy Syndrome: Why European Intellectuals Surrender to Barbarism"
Theodore Dalrymple
Approx. 49 min.
"The New Vichy Syndrome: Why European Intellectuals Surrender to Barbarism"
Theodore Dalrymple
5am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 1 min.
"Rights Gone Wrong: How Law Corrupts the Struggle for Equality"
Richard Thompson Ford
Approx. 1 hr. 1 min.
"Rights Gone Wrong: How Law Corrupts the Struggle for Equality"
Richard Thompson Ford
6am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 7 min.
"I Know Who You Are And I Saw What You Did: Social Networks and the Death of Privacy"
Lori Andrews
Approx. 1 hr. 7 min.
"I Know Who You Are And I Saw What You Did: Social Networks and the Death of Privacy"
Lori Andrews
7:15am (ET)
Approx. 43 min.
"The Odd Clauses: Understanding the Constitution Through Ten of Its Most Curious Provisions"
Jay Wexler
Approx. 43 min.
"The Odd Clauses: Understanding the Constitution Through Ten of Its Most Curious Provisions"
Jay Wexler
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