After Ken Burns' THE WAR, hear how the Panhandle was involved...

KACV honors the memories of local residents who experienced the war, at home and on the front lines. This program features a selection of interviews, from the hundreds of stories gathered, that highlight the significant impact of the war on our area...WORLD WAR II: THE PANHANDLE PROJECT...8pm

Fresh and seasoned indie rock hits the AUSTIN CITY LIMITS stage with the Head and the Heart and Gomez...7pm

The death of Roosevelt, Hitler, and Hiroshima in 6 months...

In mid-April, Americans are shocked by news bulletins announcing that President Roosevelt is dead; many do not even know the name of their new president, Harry Truman. Meanwhile, in Europe, as Allied forces rapidly push across Germany from the east and west, American and British troops, discover for themselves the true horrors of the Nazis' industrialized barbarism - at Buchenwald, Ludwigslust, Dachau, Hadamar, Mauthausen and hundreds of other concentration camps. Finally, on May 8, with their country in ruins and their fuehrer dead by his own hand, the Nazis surrender. But as Eugene Sledge remembers, to the Marines and soldiers still fighting in the Pacific, "No one cared much. Nazi Germany might as well have been on the moon. Tonight's episode of THE WAR " A World Without War - (March 1945 - December 1945)...8pm

Nazi spies and prohibition bootleggers lead into the WAR...

HISTORY DETECTIVES looks at some toy soldiers that have haunted their owner with a question: Was the father of his childhood friend a Nazi spy? Then, a journal full of liquor recipes makes a man wonder if his uncle was a prohibition bootlegger...HISTORY DETECTIVES...7pm

The Ghost Front - (December 1944 - March 1945) in one month, Allied warplanes drop 163,864 tons of bombs on Germany - almost as much as they have dropped in the preceding three years combined. In the Pacific, the air strip on Iwo Jima, an inhospitable volcanic island halfway between Allied air bases on Tinian and the Japanese home islands, needs to be taken...The WAR on PBS...8pm

if you've ever wondered what FUBAR stands for...

The War continues on PBS...from September 1944 - December 1944, the Allies seem to be moving steadily toward victory in Europe. "Militarily," General Dwight Eisenhower's chief of staff tells the press, "this war is over." But in the coming months, on both sides of the world, a generation of young men will learn a lesson as old as war itself - that generals make plans, plans go wrong and soldiers die...THE WAR...8pm

Because of special programming, Market Warriors will present a new episode at 7pm in place of Antiques Roadshow.

She would be 80 now...the most photographed person ever!

There are the movie roles, but it is the still images - the iconic face, expressions and poses - that make up our collective memory of Marilyn. Her relationship with the camera produced an enduring body of work that still dazzles and moves us...These photographs are an ageless testament to her grace, guts and sexiness - her humor and vulnerability. She understood their power, and she exploited it...lips puckered to the lens, inviting us to kiss her back...AMERICAN MASTERS presents MARILYN MONROE: STILL LIFE...Sunday at 7pm

And INDEPENDENT LENS features Cheryl Haworth - the 300-pound U.S. Olympic weightlifter as she prepares for the Beijing 2008 Olympics...Saturday at 11pm

ON STORY goes behind the scenes with key production people behind Rambo, Lethal Weapon, and Braveheart...Sunday at 5:30

Marines set out to prove that any island can be taken...

Back home, the public is devastated by color newsreel footage of the furious battle and in the Pacific & grows more determined to do what's necessary to hasten the end of the war. Allied forces are stalled in the mountains south of Rome, unable to break through German lines, and the killing goes on all winter and spring as the enemy manages to fight off repeated Allied attacks. "A Deadly Calling" (November 1943 - June 1944) Ken Burns' epic THE WAR continues...8pm

"killing is a craft," as reporter Ernie Pyle explains...

On Canada's remote Ellesmere Island we study the enormous white gyr falcon, the largest and most powerful falcon in the world...NATURE...7pm 

In the second episode of Ken Burns' WWII epic, Americans have been at war for more than a year. The Germans still occupy most of Western Europe; the Allies can't agree on a plan or timetable to dislodge them. A look at the impenetrable force of the German war machine as it occupied most of Western Europe...THE WAR...8pm