WIRED SCIENC E
Wednesday, January 3 at 8 p.m.
The latest happenings in sci/tech and its impact on health, culture, communication, entertainment, politics and business.
JAZZ FOR YOUNG PEOPLE: WHAT IS NEW
Thursday, January 4 at 9 p.m.
Famed trumpeter and Jazz musician, Wynton Marsalis, returns to his hometown of New Orleans for this entertaining lesson about New Orleans jazz. Wynton and his band talk about the roots of jazz and demonstrate the various forms of jazz with a captive audience of New Orleans school children.
VOCES: THE BRONZE SCREEN: 100 YEARS OF THE LATINO IMAGE
Saturday, January 6 at 9 p.m.
The Bronze Screen reveals the engaging, entertaining and largely untold history of Latino contributions to the Hollywood motion picture industry.
MASTERPIECE THEATRE: THE VIRGIN QUEEN
Part 1: Sunday, January 7 at 8 p.m.
Part 2: Sunday, January 14 at 8:30 p.m.
A lavish production based on the life and tumultuous 40-year reign of one of Britain's most fascinating monarchs, this epic explores the full sweep of the life of Elizabeth I - a teenage princess imprisoned in the Tower of London; her great love affair with Robert Dudley; her years of triumph over the Armada; her last, enigmatic relationship with the young Earl of Essex; and her death at the age of 70.
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: THE ALASKA PIPELINE
Monday, January 8 at 9 p.m.
The pipeline built to bring Alaska’s oil to market was one of the greatest engineering feats of the 20th century. The men, machines and money the pipeline brought to Alaska would forever transform what had long been regarded as America's last great wilderness.
ANTI-SEMITISM IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Monday, January 8 at 10 p.m.
This documentary attempts to explain the disturbing yet fascinating modern evolution of what some have dubbed "the oldest hatred of the human race." This documentary explores ways to close the schism between Jews and Christians, Jews and Muslims and all majority- minority relations.
NOVA: NOVA SCIENCENOW
 Tuesday, January 9 at 8 p.m.
NOVA scienceNOW brings viewers an array of intriguing reports from the frontlines of scientific research and discovery.
FRONTLINE: RETURN OF THE TALIBA N
Tuesday, Januarty 9 at 9 p.m.
FRONTLINE reports from the lawless Pakistani tribal areas along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border and reveals how the area has fallen under the control of a resurgent Taliban militia that uses the territory as a launching pad for its attacks on U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan. Little understood because it is off-limits to most observers, FRONTLINE investigates a secret front in the War on Terror.
SCIENCE INVESTIGATORS
 Wednesday, January 10 at 8 p.m.
Part Mythbusters, part CSI -- with a healthy dose of The Matrix –this show will provide answers to a series of scientific mysteries in a fresh way. This science show with attitude for the blog-generation covers everything from the impact of the new media revolution to more traditional scientific topics.
CHINA FROM THE INSIDE: POWER AND  THE PEOPLE
Thursday, January 10 at 9 p.m.
How do you run China? Today, the Communist Party faces a range of challenges.
CHINA FROM THE INSIDE: WOMEN OF THE  COUNTRY
Thursday, January 10 at 10 p.m.
"Women hold up half the sky," Mao said. Yet for centuries their feet were bound and their horizons were narrow. Deprived of opportunities, China's women suffered terribly. Today, Chinese women are starting to witness changes. The young in the cities have opportunities unimaginable to their grandmothers, who survived the Great Leap Forward, and their mothers, who denounced parents and teachers in the Cultural Revolution. Yet for millions of women in rural China, change remains painfully slow.
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: EYES ON THE  PRIZE: AWAKENINGS - 1954-1956/FIGHTING BACK (1957-1962)
Monday, January 15 at 9 p.m.
Awakenings 1954-1956
Individual acts of courage inspire black Southerners to fight for their rights: Mose Wright testifies against the white men who murdered young Emmett Till, and Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama.
Fighting Back (1957-1962)
States' rights loyalists and federal authorities collide in the 1957 battle to integrate Little Rock's Central High School, and again in James Meredith's 1962 challenge to segregation at the University of Mississippi. Both times, a Southern governor squares off with a U.S. president, violence erupts -- and integration is carried out.
BLACK PRESS: SOLDIERS WITHOUT SWORDS
Monday, January 15 at 10 p.m.
This special is the first documentary to provide an in-depth examination of the history and contributions of African-American newspapers. Stage, screen and television actor Joe Morton narrates.
NOVA: ARCTIC PASSAGE: PRISONERS OF TH E ICE
Tuesday, January 16 at 8 p.m.
NOVA probes the Arctic's most enduring exploration enigma. In 1845, two Royal Navy ships and 129 men led by Sir John Franklin set sail from London on an elaborately prepared expedition to conquer the elusive Arctic route and were never heard from again.
INDEPENDENT LENS: SHADYA
 Tuesday, January 16 at 10:30 p.m.
Shadya Zoabi, a charismatic 17-year-old karate world champion, strives to succeed on her own terms within her traditional Muslim village in northern Israel. This film takes an intimate look at the evolution of a young Arab-Israeli woman with feminist ideas in a male-dominated culture.
22ND CENTURY
Wednesday, January 17 at 8 p.m.
Would you like to know what the world is going to be like 30 years from now? This series is about dramatic changes--changes expected within our lifetimes--changes made possible by scientific and technological research being conducted in laboratories across the globe today.
CHINA FROM THE INSIDE:SHIFTING NATURE
Wednesday, January 17 at 9 p.m.
This episode deals with nature and the environment. The challenges of health, pollution and nutrition are mind- boggling.
CHINA FROM THE INSIDE: FREEDOM AND  JUSTICE
Wednesday, January 17 at 10 p.m.
Can China have freedom without chaos? Capitalism without democracy? Education without independence of mind? What price do people pay for acting and thinking as individuals?
COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG'S 2006 – 2007:  INFLUENCED BY NONE
Thursday, January 18 at 9 a.m
Freedom of the press is a principle that Americans take for granted. Eighteenth-century printers, though, were not free to express independent points of view. Explore the world of Clementina Rind, printer of the Virginia Gazette in pre-Revolutionary War America. Grades 4-8. To purchase an interactive component for this electronic field trip, visit www.history.org/trips.
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GENERATION NEXT: SPEAK UP, B E HEARD
Thursday, January 18 at 9 p.m.
Judy Woodruff travels across the United States to gauge – and document -- the views of 16-25 year olds, GENERATION NEXT. Woodruff looks to de-mystify a generation that is hooked on technology, generally supportive of gay rights and racial differences, yet is also wamped in debt and facing a world of unparalleled choices.
NATURE: THE QUEEN OF TR EES
Sunday, January 21 at 7 p.m.
The story of the sycamore fig and its tiny pollinator describes one of the most remarkable relationships in the natural world -- between a tree and a wasp.
MASTERPIECE THEATRE: JANE E YRE
Part 1: Sunday, January 21 at 8 p.m.
Part 2: Sunday, January 28 at 8 p.m.
After a wretched childhood, Jane Eyre arrives at Thornfield Hall to take over her duties as a governess. She soon falls in love with the brooding owner of Thornfield, Mr. Rochester. However, some mysterious screams, untold secrets and upsetting gossip quickly emerge, imposing some unseen barriers between Jane and Rochester -- some that they might never overcome.
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: JOHN AND ABIGAIL ADAMS
Monday, January 22 at 9 p.m.
Relying heavily on the extraordinary correspondence between the second president and his wife, this joint biography sheds light not only on the characters of two remarkable people, but also on the tumultuous times through which they lived.
OPRAH'S ROOTS: AN AFRICAN AMERICAN
Wednesday, January 24 at 8 p.m.
In OPRAH'S ROOTS, a one-hour African American Lives special, Professor Gates and Ms.Winfrey continue their quest to discover the full history of her ancestors' struggles and accomplishments. The program will present the dramatic results of her genetic analysis, which not only reveal that she has significant Native American ancestry, but also locate her matrilineal ancestors on the western coast of Africa. This fascinating quest of OPRAH'S ROOTS will not only showcase Ms. Winfrey's family legacy, but also show viewers how census and slave holder's property records can help locate their own ancestors.
GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET: THE MAGIC FLUTE
Wednesday, January 24 at 9 p.m.
Dancing bears, flying birds, even a giant serpent are all brought vividly to life through director Julie Taymor's ingenious use of puppetry. This abridged version of Mozart's opera is sung in English by an attractive young cast.
BLACK WRITERS IN AMERICA: WALTER MOSLEY/SONIA SANCHEZ
Friday, January 26 at 10 p.m.
Walter Mosley is the author of Devil in a Blue Dress, A Red Death and White Butterfly in the Easy Rawlins mystery series. Poet Sonia Sanchez is author of Homecoming, We a BaddDDD People, Homegirls and Handgrenades and Wounded in the House of a Friend.
BLACK WRITERS IN AMERICA: TERRY MCMILLAN/ARTHUR FLOWERS
Friday, January 26 at 10:30 p.m.
Terry McMillan's novel Mama received a National Book Award by the Before Columbus Foundation. McMillan also authored and co-wrote the screenplays for Waiting to Exhale and How Stella Got Her Groove Back. Arthur Flowers' works include the novels De Mojo Blues and Another Good Loving Blues. He is a blues singer and co-founder of the New Renaissance Writers Guild in New York City.
NATURE: RHINOCEROS
Sunday, December 28 at 7 p.m.
Today, the rhinoceros is one of the planet’s rarest animals, with three of its species on the brink of extinction.
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: THE BERLIN AIRLIFT
Monday, December 29 at 9 p.m.
On June 24, 1948, the Soviet Union blocked railroad and street access to West Berlin, starving the population and choking commerce. Through the personal stories of those who were there, this program provides a striking look at the first battle of the Cold War and the largest humanitarian campaign the world had ever seen.
POWER OF CHOICE: THE LIFE AND IDEAS OF  MILTON FRIEDMAN
Monday, December 29 at 10 p.m.
Milton Friedman was a teacher, scientist, revolutionary intellectual, champion of free market capitalism, advisor to Presidents Nixon, Ford and Reagan, and winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Economics. This program tells the story of his journey through life and of the power of his ideas.
NOVA: CRASH OF FLIGHT 111
 Tuesday, January 30 at 8 p.m.
One of the most exhaustive investigations in aviation history reveals telling clues to the cause of a disaster off Nova Scotia.
FRONTLINE: THE METH EPIDEMIC
Tuesday, January 30 at 9 p.m.
In a reporting partnership with The Oregonian, FRONTLINE investigates America's addiction to meth and exposes the inherent conflict between the illegal drug trade and the legitimate three-billion-dollar cold remedy business.
INDEPENDENT LENS: TWISTED
Tuesday, January 30 at 10 p.m.
This film tells the stories of people who live with dystonia, a neurological disorder that forces muscles to twist into abnormal, often painful, movements or postures.
SUPREME COURT: ONE NATION UNDER LAW/A NEW KIND OF JUSTICE
Wednesday, January 31 at 9 p.m.
By fusing history with biography, THE SUPREME COURT humanizes the enigmatic black-robed figures, revealing their temperaments, passions, deeply held personal beliefs, and life stories. The four-part series also explores the dramatic stories of the people whose cases have come before the court, as well as the often controversial rulings that impact all Americans.
One Nation Under Law – examines the creation of the court and follows it through the brink of the Civil War, paying particular attention to the fourth chief justice of the Supreme Court – John Marshall – and to his successor, Roger Taney. Marshall presided over one of the most famous cases before the court while Taney presided over one of the most infamous.
A New Kind of Justice – explores the issues before the court during the period after the Civil War, a time of unprecedented economic growth. While the 14th Amendment was passed to make certain that the states were obligated to recognize the rights of the newly freed slaves, the court would for almost 100 years use the amendment to protect not blacks but big business, recognizing corporations as “persons” and awarding them sweeping legal protection.
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