Media Menu for February 21, 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, February 21, 2012
10-11 p.m. E/P
Science Channel
Science and Geography
Middle and High School

Strip the City: Sydney

Using CGI animation to strip the world's most extreme harbor city - Sydney - naked of its steel, concrete, ocean and rock, layer by layer, this documentary explores the secret technology and infrastructure that keeps it running. Sydney is a city bursting at the seams – home to a fifth Australia's entire population and still growing. Trapped between the Blue Mountains and the ocean it sits on the driest inhabited continent on Earth and surrounds one the planet’s largest natural harbors. How did Sydney come to thrive in such an inhospitable place? This film looks beneath the city’s skin to discover the secret engineering wonders that make it possible and the geological forces that sculpted it. It also sucks the water up out of its harbor to explore its origins. The city's leading engineers and geologists reveal the secrets hidden inside Sydney's buildings and beneath its streets that allow the city to function, from the concealed contours of the harbor that allow super size ships to sail into the heart of the city to the underground caverns that store its water. This episode explores the geology that shaped the city's past and challenges its future, from the rich coal seams underneath to the deep gorges that channel bush fires right into the heart of the city. TV-PG
Log on http://science.discovery.com/tv-shows/strip-the-city/season-1-episodes1.htm

Friday, February 22, 2012
10-11:30 p.m. E/P
PBS
U.S. History
Middle and High School

Slavery by Another Name

Airing on KOCE and narrated by Laurence Fishburne, this documentary is a look at forced labor in post-Civil War America, when blacks were often arrested on and convicted of spurious charges, then leased or sold as laborers to various entities, a practice that lasted well into the 20th century. Adapted from Wall Street Journal writer Douglas Blackmon's Pulitzer Prize-winning book of the same name. The program challenges
one of our country’s most cherished assumptions: the belief that slavery ended with Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. It recounts how in the years following the Civil War, insidious new forms of forced labor emerged in the American South, keeping hundreds of thousands of African Americans in bondage, trapping them in a brutal system that would persist until the onset of World War II.
Log on http://www.slaverybyanothername.com/pbs-film

Saturday, February 23, 2012
10-11 p.m. E/P
Discovery Channel
U.S. History and Arts
Middle and High School

Argo: Inside Story

There is a lot of talk in public and government circles about the Oscar-nominated movie, Argo. which chronicles the CIA's attempt to rescue 6 Americans during the 1978 Iran hostage crisis. This documentary gains access to the top players involved to hear their side of the story, including the CIA’s Tony Mendez.
Log on http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/14/world/meast/iran-argo-response

Sunday, February 24, 2012
11 a.m. - Noon E/P
National Geographic Channel
U.S.
History and Science
Middle and High School

Explorer: The Real George Washington Revealed

Airing in a morning timeslot so as to allow for evening viewing of the Oscars, this documentary revisits the ruins of George Washington's childhood home to gather additional insight into the father of our country. As a science team members study the site, they unearth revealing artifacts which set the record straight on his fabled youth. In addition, we learn how he engaged in espionage during the Revolution despite his motto of
I'll never tell a lie.
Log on http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/explorer/episodes/the-real-georgewashington-revealed

Monday, February 25, 2012
10-11:30 p.m. E/P
PBS
World History and Arts
Middle and High School

Independent Lens: Ai Weiwei - Never Sorry

Airing on KOCE, this documentary profiles Chinese artist-activist Ai Weiwei, who helped design Beijing's iconic Bird's Nest Olympic stadium and later criticized the Games as party propaganda.
Log on http://aiweiweineversorry.com/

Tuesday, February 26, 2012
8-11 p.m. E/P
PBS
U.S. History
Middle and High School

Makers: Women Who Make America

Airing on KOCE, this documentary chronicles the modern women's movement in the U.S. Included: first-person accounts from movement leaders (Gloria Steinem, Eleanor Holmes Norton); opponents (Phyllis Schlafly); celebrities (Oprah Winfrey, Katie Couric); political figures (Hillary Clinton).
Log on http://www.pbs.org/makers/home/

Wednesday, February 27, 2012
6-7 p.m. E/P
History Channel
Science and Technology
Middle and High School

Modern Marvels: 90's Tech

As reviewed in this history-of-technology, the dot com decade opened up the information superhighway and for the first time, people could shop, search, and surf online with the click of a mouse. Take a trip back to the end of the 20th century and the beginning of today's trendy technologies and see how the gadgets we can't live without all started in the 90s. Learn about the science of creating an Internet search engine and explore how virtual pet toys were born. TV-PG
Log on http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1186313/

Book TV Schedule

Saturday, February 23rd

8am (ET)
Approx. 45 min.
"Radical: Fighting to Put Students First"
Michelle Rhee

8:45am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 4 min.
"Dangerous Convictions: What's Really Wrong with the U.S. Congress"
Tom Allen

10am (ET)
Approx. 40 min.
"This Is the Day: The March on Washington"
Michael Eric Dyson; Paul Farber; Brigitte Freed

10:45am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 12 min.
"The Terror Courts: Rough Justice at Guantanamo Bay"
Jess Bravin

12pm (ET)
Approx. 53 min.
"Martha Washington: An American Life"
Patricia Brady

1pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 6 min.
"The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks"
Jeanne Theoharis

2:15pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 1 min.
"Becoming Europe: Economic Decline, Culture, and How America Can Avoid a European Future"
Samuel Gregg

3:30pm (ET)
Approx. 48 min.
"National Insecurity: The Cost of American Militarism"
Melvin Goodman

4:30pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 30 min.
"Smuggler Nation: How Illicit Trade Made America"
Peter Andreas

6pm (ET)
Approx. 57 min.
Encore Booknotes: Floyd Flake, "The Way of the Bootstrapper: Nine Action Steps For Achieving Your Dreams"
Floyd Flake

7pm (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
"Congressman Lincoln: The Making of America's Greatest President"
Chris DeRose

8pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 8 min.
Tony Kushner, "Lincoln: The Screenplay" & Harold Holzer, "Lincoln: How Abraham Lincoln Ended Slavery in America - A Companion Book for Young Readers to the Steven Spielberg Film"
Harold Holzer; Tony Kushner

9pm (ET)
Approx. 52 min.
"On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines - and Future"
Karen Elliott House

10pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
After Words: Ed Whitacre, "American Turnaround: Reinventing AT&T and GM and the Way We Do Business in the USA," hosted by Stephanie Mehta, Fortune magazine

11pm (ET)
Approx. 39 min.
"Pussy Riot!: A Punk Prayer For Freedom
Mutiple Panelists

11:45pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 25 min.
500th Anniversary of Machiavelli's "The Prince"
Michael Ignatieff; James Johnson; Edward Muir

Sunday, February 24th

1:15am (ET)
Approx. 45 min.
"Radical: Fighting to Put Students First"
Michelle Rhee

2am (ET)
Approx. 33 min.
"The International Relations of Middle-earth: Learning from 'The Lord of the Rings'"
Patrick James

2:45am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 12 min.
"The Terror Courts: Rough Justice at Guantanamo Bay"
Jess Bravin

4am (ET)
Approx. 55 min.
2013 Savannah Book Festival: Heidi Squier Kraft, "Rule Number Two: Lessons I Learned in a Combat Hospital"
Heidi Squier Kraft

5am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 4 min.
"Dangerous Convictions: What's Really Wrong with the U.S. Congress"
Tom Allen

6:15am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 17 min.
"Into the Desert: Reflections on the Gulf War"
Jeffrey Engel

7:30am (ET)
Approx. 57 min.
"The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?"
Jared Diamond

8:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 25 min.
500th Anniversary of Machiavelli's "The Prince"
Michael Ignatieff; James Johnson; Edward Muir

10am (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
"Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, & the Prison of Belief"
Lawrence Wright

11am (ET)
Approx. 52 min.
"On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines - and Future"
Karen Elliott House

12pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
After Words: Sarah Garland, "Divided We Fail: The Story of an African-American Community That Ended the Era of School Desegregation," hosted by Marc Lamont Hill, Columbia University

1pm (ET)
Approx. 18 min.
Book TV at American University: Patricia Aufderheide, "Reclaiming Fair Use: How to Put Balance Back in Copyright"
Patricia Aufderheide

1:20pm (ET)
Approx. 39 min.
Book TV at American University: Kenneth Anderson, "Living with the UN: American Responsibilities and International Order"
Kenneth Anderson

2pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 30 min.
"Smuggler Nation: How Illicit Trade Made America"
Peter Andreas

3:30pm (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
"After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead"
Alan Blinder

4:30pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 8 min.
Tony Kushner, "Lincoln: The Screenplay" & Harold Holzer, "Lincoln: How Abraham Lincoln Ended Slavery in America - A Companion Book for Young Readers to the Steven Spielberg Film"
Harold Holzer; Tony Kushner

6pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.
"Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture is Making Us Smarter"
Steven Johnson

7pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 14 min.
"The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI's Manufactured War on Terrorism"
Trevor Aaronson

8:15pm (ET)
Approx. 45 min.
"Radical: Fighting to Put Students First"
Michelle Rhee

9pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
After Words: Ed Whitacre, "American Turnaround: Reinventing AT&T and GM and the Way We Do Business in the USA," hosted by Stephanie Mehta, Fortune magazine

10pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 46 min.
"If Mayors Ruled the World"
Benjamin Barber

Monday, February 25th

12am (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
After Words: Ed Whitacre, "American Turnaround: Reinventing AT&T and GM and the Way We Do Business in the USA," hosted by Stephanie Mehta, Fortune magazine

1am (ET)
Approx. 39 min.
Book TV at American University: Kenneth Anderson, "Living with the UN: American Responsibilities and International Order"
Kenneth Anderson

1:40am (ET)
Approx. 18 min.
Book TV at American University: Patricia Aufderheide, "Reclaiming Fair Use: How to Put Balance Back in Copyright"
Patricia Aufderheide

2am (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
"Congressman Lincoln: The Making of America's Greatest President"
Chris DeRose

3am (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
After Words: Ed Whitacre, "American Turnaround: Reinventing AT&T and GM and the Way We Do Business in the USA," hosted by Stephanie Mehta, Fortune magazine

4am (ET)
Approx. 39 min.
"Pussy Riot!: A Punk Prayer For Freedom
Mutiple Panelists

4:45am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 1 min.
"Becoming Europe: Economic Decline, Culture, and How America Can Avoid a European Future"
Samuel Gregg

6am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 46 min.
"If Mayors Ruled the World"
Benjamin Barber