Tavis Smiley takes an intimate look at the lives of a handful of New Orlean's most resilient residents after Katrina. Smiley works with Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme and draws on the filmmaker's extensive five-year chronicling of some of the city's most damaged neighborhoods. Viewers gain a unique perspective on the men and women who rode out the storm and are determined to rebuild their city and their lives...7pm
He hopped his first freight train at the age of 10, became a chronic truant and drinker and was locked up some 17 times as a youngster. Serious criminal charges followed and Haggard was an inmate in the audience in 1959, when Johnny Cash gave his New Year's Day concert in San Quentin -- and, as he's said repeatedly, "my life changed forever. " This candid documentary about Merle Haggard includes interviews with Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Ray Price, Dwight Yoakam, Lucinda Williams and Allison Krauss. Haggard is known as a singer's singer and a guitar player's guitar player -- his voice, his finger picking and his interpretations are like none others...AMERICAN MASTERS...8pm
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