The most important moment in the life of a young pianist is when he or she walks out onto the stage of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Gut-wrenching drama, strung-out nerves and the joy of victory are the elements that make up this extraordinary film retrospective...tonight at 8pm
Part circus and part athletic contest, Mexican wrestling, famous for its masked competitors, provides a sense of "home" for new immigrants in the United States. Lucha libre is contributing a lasting cultural idiom to America's pop culture landscape...VOCES ON PBS: TALES OF MASKED MEN...tonight at 9pm
Award-winning director Natalia Almada returns with a mesmerizing new film as she accompanies Martin, a guard who watches over the extravagant mausoleums of some of Mexico's most notorious drug lords. In the labyrinth of the cemetery, this film about violence without violence reminds us that, amid the turmoil of a drug war that has claimed more than 50,000 lives, ordinary existence persists in Mexico and quietly defies the dead...POV: EL VELADOR...Saturday at 11pm
PBS launches a new series about a newly qualified midwife, Jenny Lee as she arrives in the East End of London to begin her career. Nonnatus House is a convent where she quickly becomes immersed in her new life...CALL OF THE MIDWIFE...Sunday at 7pm
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