Media Menu for January 31, 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.

Thursday, January 31, 2012
4-5 p.m. E/P
Discovery Channel
Geography and Economics
Middle and High School

Shipwreck Men: Hurricane Alley

This documentary details the business of salvage operations off the coast of southern Florida. The show follows rival companies that race to be the first on the scene to save sinking vessels. Salvage companies scan the waters, day and night, looking for opportunities to make money when others on get in over their heads. Hurricane Isaac blasts South Florida leaving wreckage and destruction for most, but gold for salvors. 70 mph winds and an 11 foot surge test the courage of these hardened shipwreck men as they throw caution to the wind, risking it all to beat the competition. TV-14
Log on http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/shipwreck-men

Friday, February1, 2012
10-11 p.m. E/P
PBS
Literature
Middle and High School

Shakespeare Uncovered: Henry IV & Henry V With Jeremy Irons

Airing on KOCE, in this documentary actor Jeremy Irons examines "Henry IV" and "Henry V," including
how they deviated from history. He also offers a behind-the-scenes look at "Great Performances" adaptations
of the plays that star himself and Tom Hiddleston.
Log on http://www.pbs.org/wnet/shakespeare-uncovered/video/henry-iv-v-with-jeremy-irons/

Saturday, February 2, 2012
10-10:30 p.m. E/P
Science Channel
Science
Middle and High School

Stuff You Should Know: Make It Rain

In this documentary a star pitcher of a softball team gets injured, so the program’s hosts attempt cloud
seeding to rain out their next game. During the podcast the guys cover weather modification, from the space
sun shade to using hurricanes as weapons.TV-PG
Log on http://www.weathermodification.org/

Sunday, February 3, 2012
7-8 p.m. E/P
PBS
U.S. History
Middle and High School

History Detectives

Airing on KLCS, this documentary investigates a spear that may have been used in abolitionist John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry and why U.S. troops were in Siberia during World War I.
Log on http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/

Monday, February 4, 2012
10-11 p.m. E/P
PBS
U.S. History and World History
Middle and High School

The Black Kungfu Experience

Airing on KOCE, this documentary profiles kungfu’s black pioneers and heroes who fluorished at thejunction of African American and Asian cultures. The program traces the rise of black kung fu in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s, and resonates in the contemporary martial arts scene in Washington D.C, Los Angeles, The Virgin Islands, Jamaica, and Hong Kong. Chinese and African American experiences evolve differently yet converge in unexpected ways; they challenge political and social persecution – from shadows of the Qing government’s oppressive rule in China, and British colonialism in Hong Kong, to American racism.
Log on http://www.itvs.org/films/black-kungfu-experience

Tuesday, February 5, 2012
9-!0:30 p.m. E/P
PBS
U.S. History and Technology
Middle and High School

Silicon Valley: The America Experience

Airing on KOCE, this documentary profiles Robert Noyce (1927-90), the leader of the "traitorous eight" who left Shockley Semiconductor Company in 1957 to form Fairchild Semiconductor, a company that became a pivotal player in the technology .
Log on http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/

Wednesday, February 6, 2012
8-9 p.m. E/P
PBS
Science
Middle and High School

NATURE: Attenborough's Life Stories: Our Fragile Planet

Airing on KOCE, in this program documentary filmmaker David Attenborough reflects on the impact of humans on the natural world during his lifetime, which includes diminishing numbers of rain forests and coral reefs; and increasing numbers of endangered species, such as the blue whale.
Log on http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/attenboroughs-lifestories/preview/8146/

Book TV Schedule

Saturday, February 2nd

8am (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
"Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America" 
Wenonah Hauter

9am (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
"Words from the White House: Words and Phrases Coined or Popularized by America's Presidents" 
Paul Dickson

10am (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
"Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare From Ancient Times to the Present" 
Max Boot

11am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 6 min.
"America: Our Next Chapter" 
Chuck Hagel

12pm (ET)
Approx. 2 hr.
BookTV in Santa Fe, New Mexico
BookTV Visits Santa Fe, New Mexico

2pm (ET)
Approx. 51 min.
"The Financial Crisis and the Free Market Cure: Why Pure Capitalism is the World Economy's Only Hope" 
John Allison

3pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 20 min.
"My Beloved World" 
Sonia Sotomayor

4:30pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 2 min.
"Banker to the World: Leadership Lessons From the Front Lines of Global Finance" 
William Rhodes

6pm (ET)
Approx. 55 min.
Encore Booknotes: Linda Greenlaw, "The Lobster Chronicles: Life On a Very Small Island" 
Linda Greenlaw

7pm (ET)
Approx. 57 min.
"The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?" 
Jared Diamond

8pm (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
"The U.S. Senate" 
Tom Daschle

9pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.
WATCH LIVE ONLINE Thursday @ Noon ET: "My Share of the Task: A Memoir" 
Gen. Stanley McChrystal (Ret.)

10pm (ET)
Approx. 54 min.
After Words: Jonathan Last, "What to Expect When No One's Expecting: America's Coming Demographic Disaster," hosted by D'Vera Cohn, Pew Research Center

11pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 13 min.
"The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement" 
Taylor Branch

Sunday, February 3rd

12:30am (ET)
Approx. 36 min.
"Dinner with Churchill: Policy-Making at the Dinner Table" 
Cita Stelzer

1:30am (ET)
Approx. 11 min.
Book TV at the University of Pennsylvania: Richard Gelles, "The Third Lie: Why Government Programs Don't Work and a Blueprint for Change" 
Richard Gelles

2am (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
"Going to Tehran: Why the United States Must Come to Terms with the Islamic Republic of Iran" 
Flynt Leverett; Hillary Mann Leverett

3:15am (ET)
Approx. 54 min.
"Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data" 
Charles Wheelan

4:15am (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
2013 Key West Literary Seminar - Panel: "How Far Can the Facts Take Us?" 
Rosalind Brackenbury; Pico Iyer; Julie Salamon; Colm Toibin

5:30am (ET)
Approx. 54 min.
"A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico" 
Amy Greenberg

6:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 13 min.
"The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement" 
Taylor Branch

8am (ET)
Approx. 51 min.
"The Financial Crisis and the Free Market Cure: Why Pure Capitalism is the World Economy's Only Hope" 
John Allison

9am (ET)
Approx. 2 hr.
BookTV in Santa Fe, New Mexico
BookTV Visits Santa Fe, New Mexico

11am (ET)
Approx. 55 min.
After Words: Helaine Olen, "Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry," hosted by Russell Wild, Saturday Evening Post Financial Contributor

LIVE 12pm (ET)
Approx. 3 hr.
In Depth: Randall Robinson 
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3pm (ET)
Approx. 53 min.
"Catastrophic Care: How American Health Care Killed My Father - and How We Can Fix It"
David Goldhill

4:30pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.
WATCH LIVE ONLINE Thursday @ Noon ET: "My Share of the Task: A Memoir" 
Gen. Stanley McChrystal (Ret.)

6pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.
"Black Men Built the Capitol: Discovering African-American History In and Around Washington, D.C." 
Jesse Holland

7:30pm (ET)
Approx. 36 min.
"Dinner with Churchill: Policy-Making at the Dinner Table" 
Cita Stelzer

9pm (ET)
Approx. 54 min.
After Words: Jonathan Last, "What to Expect When No One's Expecting: America's Coming Demographic Disaster," hosted by D'Vera Cohn, Pew Research Center

10pm (ET)
Approx. 57 min.
"The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?" 
Jared Diamond

11pm (ET)
Approx. 53 min.
"Catastrophic Care: How American Health Care Killed My Father - and How We Can Fix It"
David Goldhill

Monday, February 4th

12am (ET)
Approx. 3 hr.
In Depth: Randall Robinson

3am (ET)
Approx. 54 min.
After Words: Jonathan Last, "What to Expect When No One's Expecting: America's Coming Demographic Disaster," hosted by D'Vera Cohn, Pew Research Center

4am (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
"Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America" 
Wenonah Hauter

5am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 1 min.
"The Hopkins Touch: Harry Hopkins and the Forging of the Alliance to Defeat Hitler" 
David Roll

6:15am (ET)
Approx. 39 min.
2013 Key West Literary Seminar - Panel: "The Biographer as Autobiographer and the Limits of Objectivity" 
Jay Parini; Phyllis Rose; Edmund White; Brenda Wineapple

7am (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
"If Not Us, Who?: William Rusher, 'National Review,' and the Conservative Movement" 
David Frisk