They wander along our highways, reminders of the wilderness we have paved our way through.

From coast to coast some 30 million white-tailed deer make their home in the United States. But once they retreat from our view, where do they go? What secrets do they carry back into the forest, away from our prying eyes? Deer are among the most highly-studied mammals in the world; but does any typical homeowner with deer in the yard know how long a deer can live?When they sleep? How many babies a doe can have each year? Working with scientists, special camera equipment, and deer experts and devotees of every kind, NATURE reveals the hidden world of white-tailed deer in a whole new light. NATURE: THE PRIVATE LIFE OF DEER...7pm

 

America's own Robin Hood, robbing from the poor as well as the rich, keeping it all for himself...

Jesse James, so the legend goes, was a Western outlaw, though he never went west; and a gunfighter whose victims,in reality, were almost always unarmed. Less heroic than brutal, James was in fact a product, from first to last, of the American Civil War; a Confederate partisan of expansive ambition, unbending politics and surprising cunning, who gladly helped invent his own valiant legend. In a life steeped in prolific violence and bloodshed, he met what was perhaps the most fitting end; like so many of his own victims, James himself was an unarmed man, shot in the back.  JESSE JAMES: AMERICAN EXPERIENCE...7pm

Love at first sight...via the internet.

Two strangers -- Steven is an aging white man obsessed with marrying an Asian woman, dreaming of a devoted young wife. Sandy is the young, feisty, ambitious Chinese woman he finds online. This engaging documentary follows their tumultuous love story. INDEPENDENT LENS: SEEKING ASIAN FEMALE...9pm

Paul Taylor is the last of the geniuses who created modern dance..

GREAT PERFORMANCES presents two of Taylor's enduring masterworks...Brandenburgs, first performed in '88 to music from Bach's Brandenburg concertos, and his 2008 ballet Beloved Renegade set to music of Francis Poulenc.GREAT PERFORMANCES: PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY IN PARIS...FRIDAY AT 8PM

Yankee Doodle Dandy and You're a Grand Old Flag, Saturday on LAWRENCE WELK - 7pm

Norah Jones on AUSTIN CITY LIMITS...Saturday at 10pm


DUST BOWL wraps up Sunday afternoon at 2pm, and the Brits have full control of our programming Sunday night beginning at 7pm with CALL THE MIDWIFE, MASTERPIECE CLASSIC: MR SELFRIDGE, and BLETCHLEY CIRCLE...I SAY - TALLY HO!!!

We have ways of making you talk...

Spied upon by MI19 in a bugging operation of unprecedented scale and cunning, 4,000 German POW's revealed their inner thoughts about the Third Reich and let slip military secrets that helped the Allies win WWII. Based on groundbreaking research conducted by a team of leading German historians and scientists, the film will tell the story of how those confessions were stolen, how they changed the outcome of the war and how they can now reveal, in more shocking detail than ever before, the hearts and minds of the German fighter. SECRETS OF THE DEAD: BUGGING HITLER'S SOLDIERS...9PM

Could our water supply be the next disaster?

In the second episode of Ken Burns's DUST BOWL, experience the gradual relief as the families of the plains seek new lives in California and government conservation efforts - and a break in the drought in 1939 - eventually stabilize the soil and bring the farms back to life, but with dangers of another Dust Bowl facing future generations...DUST BOWL: REAPING THE WHIRLWIND...7pm

The most powerful raptor in the world lives in the jungle - and eats monkeys!

Harpy eagles are barely ever seen, let alone filmed. In this extraordinary documentary, our team of cameramen travel to the jungles of South America and into the world of this monkey-eating eagle and even risks injury to obtain intimate pictures of them bringing back large monkeys to the nest. The tables soon turn, however, as one of these massive birds starts following the team.  NATURE: JUNGLE EAGLE...7pm