Media Menu for June 6, 2012

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, June 6,  2012,
8-10 p.m. E/P
KLCS-PBS
World History
Middle and High School

 Masterpiece Classic: The Diary of Anne Frank

This movie dramatizes the two years that the Jewish teenager, her family and four others hid in a secret annex above her father's office in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam. Actress Ellie Kendrick is mesmerizing as the intense, headstrong teen.
Log on http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/annefrank/frank.html

Thursday, June 7,  2012,
7-8 p.m. E/P
KLCS-PBS
Science
Middle and High School

NOVA: Doctors' Diaries

This is part one of a two part documentary miniseries telling the stories of seven Harvard Medical students. All but one still practices medicine, though in different specialties, and the one who isn't, Cheryl Dorsey, is president of the nonprofit Echoing Green. In 1987,  cameras began rolling to chronicle the lives of these young, bright medical students embarking on the longest and most rigorous endeavor in higher education: the years-long journey to become a doctor. From their first days at Harvard Medical School to the present day, none of them could have predicted what it would take, personally and professionally. Part two airs in this time slot June 19.
Log on http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/doctors/lives.html

Friday, June 8,  2012,
8-9 p.m. E/P
Science Channel
Science
Middle and High School

Predicting Monster Earthquakes

Capable of ripping up roads, moving mountains and tearing down towns, they're the biggest force of natural destruction on the planet, earthquakes. This documentary explores the question that's bugging geologists, and ordinary people alike. Can we predict earthquakes? TV-G
Log on http://earthquakeauthority.com/index.aspx?id=7&pid=1

Saturday, June 9,  2012,
6-8 p.m. E/P
KLCS-PBS
U.S. History
Middle and High School

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE; Freedom Riders

This historical documentary tells the story of the 1961 Freedom Riders, civil-rights activists who confronted the Jim Crow laws that remained the status quo at interstate travel facilities in the South despite two Supreme Court rulings that declared them unconstitutional. The goal was to force the JFK administration, which was focused on the Cold War and international affairs, into addressing domestic civil rights. The thorough documentary includes remarks from many Riders and RFK administrative assistant John Seigenthaler.
Log on http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/freedomriders/about

Sunday, June 10,  2012,
9-10 p.m. E/P
KLCS-PBS
Economics and U.S. History
Middle and High School

Pricele$$

This documentary examines the influence of money on policymaking. Included: remarks from former senators Bill Bradley and Alan Simpson; former New York governor Mario Cuomo; Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.); and Common Cause president Bob Edgar. It looks at the consequences of an electoral system that can obligate our leaders to the special interests bankrolling their election campaigns. Why are politicians so utterly dependent on deep-pocket donors such as the oil & gas industry, agrichemical companies, health insurers, and Wall Street? What is the Citizen's United decision and how does that ruling affect our lives and the lives of our viewers? How can our elections be up for sale when our democracy, after all, is priceless?  America's electoral system forces elected representatives, in both parties, to rely on special interests for their job security.
Log on http://www.habitatmedia.org/priceless.html

Monday, June 11,  2012,
9-10 p.m. E/P
National Geographic Channel
Geography
Middle and High School

Untamed Americas: Coasts

This is a geography documentary about the western hemisphere’s coasts. At the frozen poles or the sultry tropics, the coasts of the Americas host some of the greatest spectacles on earth. At the Falkland Islands in the southern end of the Americas, watch male penguins perform mating jigs to attract females. Farther north, plunge into the Sea of Cortez off the coast of Mexico, where hordes of voracious giant Humboldt squid cannibalize their kin.
Log on http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/untamed-americas/interactive-map/?source=email_channel

Tuesday, June 12,  2012,
9-10 p.m. E/P
Science Channel
Geography
Middle and High School

Dive to the Bottom of the World

This documentary   chronicles the dedication of biologists, engineers, geologists and oceanographers as they collaborate to deploy a unique, state-of-the-art deep-sea vehicle. The underwater machine is known as 'Nereus', named after the mythical Greek god with a fish tail and a man's torso and is currently the deepest-diving vehicle in operation. It is designed to function in the conditions of the Challenger Deep, the deepest point of the Earth's oceans, where the environment is harsh and intense. Its mission is to provide researchers with an eye to the bottom of the ocean floor, and retrieve invaluable biological and geological samples for further study.  TV-G
Log on http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=10076&tid=282&cid=57606

Tuesday, June 12,  2012,
10-11 p.m. E/P
History  Channel
Economics
Middle and High School

UNITED STATS OF AMERICA: Money Talks

Would you believe that today the average American male makes four times what he made a hundred years ago?  It's true.  And yet we'd swear that money has never been tighter.  This documentary uses statistics to look at who earns what, who's better off, how that's changed, and what it buys us all.  Hosts Randy and Jason Sklar  are identical twins  who just happen to have an obsession with numbers and an amazing knack for finding the incredible stories behind the statistics. This program in part of a series intended to reveal the stories behind the most interesting and surprising statistics in American history – stories that tell us more about who we are as individuals and as a nation.
Log on http://www.history.com/shows/united-stats-of-america

Wednesday, June 13,  2012,
5-7 p.m. E/P repeats 9-11 p.m. E/P
CNBC Channel
Technology and Economics
Elementary, Middle and High School

The Pixar Story

This documentary goes inside the company that transformed the animated film industry. Using never-before-seen footage from the Pixar library, along with historic archival animation and first hand accounts by animators, studio executives, directors, producers, and voice performers. It tells the story of the Bay Area start-up that revolutionized Hollywood. In the mid 1980s, an inspired and inspiring trio of innovators combined their gifts in art, science and business to launch a new way to make 3-D animated films.  Ed Catmull, John Lasseter and Steve Jobs overcame years of creative struggle and financial loss to launch an entirely new animation industry. Starting with the first full-length CG film Toy Story, Pixar  established an unprecedented and as yet unparalleled record of box-office success.
Log on http://www.pixar.com/companyinfo/index.html

Book TV Schedule

Saturday, June 9th

8am (ET)
Approx. 54 min.
"When General Grant Expelled the Jews"
Jonathan Sarna

9am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 12 min.
"It Worked For Me: In Life and Leadership"
Colin Powell

10:15am (ET)
Approx. 34 min.
"They Eat Puppies, Don't They?
Christopher Buckley

LIVE 11am (ET)
Approx. 7 hr.
2012 Chicago Tribune Printers Row Lit Fest - SATURDAY COVERAGE
Multiple Authors

6pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
Encore Booknotes: Dan Baum, "Citizen Coors: An American Dynasty"
Dan Baum

7pm (ET)
Approx. 34 min.
"They Eat Puppies, Don't They?
Christopher Buckley

7:45pm (ET)
Approx. 53 min.
"Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror and Deliverance in the City of Love"
David Talbot

8:45pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 9 min.
"The Road to Freedom: How to Win the Fight for Free Enterprise"
Arthur Brooks

10pm (ET)
Approx. 57 min.
After Words: Madeleine Albright, "Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948" hosted by Ann Blackman, former Time and AP reporter

11pm (ET)
Approx. 54 min.
"Slade Gorton: A Half Century in Politics"
John Hughes

Sunday, June 10th

12am (ET)
Approx. 7 hr.
2012 Chicago Tribune Printers Row Lit Fest - SATURDAY COVERAGE
Multiple Authors

7am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 10 min.
"Ron Paul's Revolution: The Man and the Movement He Inspired"
Brian Doherty

8:15am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 2 min.
"Pax Ethnica: Where and How Diversity Succeeds"
Shareen Blair Brysac; Karl Meyer

9:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 20 min.
"The Good Food Revolution: Growing Healthy Food, People, and Communities"
Will Allen

LIVE 11am (ET)
Approx. 5 hr.
2012 Chicago Tribune Printers Row Lit Fest - SUNDAY COVERAGE
Multiple Authors

4pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 9 min.
"The Road to Freedom: How to Win the Fight for Free Enterprise"
Arthur Brooks

5:15pm (ET)
Approx. 35 min.
"Reckless: The Political Assault on the American Environment"
Bob Deans

6pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 8 min.
"American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House"
Jon Meacham

7:15pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 18 min.
"Good Derivatives: A Story of Financial and Environmental Innovation"
Richard Sandor

8:30pm (ET)
Approx. 24 min.
Book TV at Georgetown University: Chandra Manning, “What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War”
Chandra Manning

9pm (ET)
Approx. 57 min.
After Words: Madeleine Albright, "Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948" hosted by Ann Blackman, former Time and AP reporter

10pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 12 min.
"It Worked For Me: In Life and Leadership"
Colin Powell

11:15pm (ET)
Approx. 44 min.
"Yours in Truth: A Personal Portrait of Ben Bradlee"
Jeff Himmelman

Monday, June 11th

12am (ET)
Approx. 57 min.
After Words: Madeleine Albright, "Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948" hosted by Ann Blackman, former Time and AP reporter

1am (ET)
Approx. 5 hr.
2012 Chicago Tribune Printers Row Lit Fest - SUNDAY COVERAGE
Multiple Authors

6am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 8 min.
"Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II"
Arthur Herman

7:15am (ET)
Approx. 35 min.
"Reckless: The Political Assault on the American Environment"
Bob Deans