Tavis Smiley travels to Washington state, Louisiana, Missouri and California, meeting the educators, law enforcement, judges, youth advocates and the at-risk teens themselves who are working together to get kids out of the juvenile justice system, back into high school and through to graduation.
TAVIS SMILEY REPORTS: EDUCATION UNDER ARREST...7pm
180 DAYS: A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF AN AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL...A uniquely intimate journey through a year in the lives of students, teachers and school leaders in one Washington, DC public high school. The series is framed by volatile national and local politics aimed at reforming this most fundamental of public institutions, but the lives at the center of "180 Days," most especially those of the five students whose stories take the viewer from the day 1 to day 180, seem at once deeply impacted by and yet profoundly separate from the "Race to the Top."
FROM DUST TO DREAMS: OPENING NIGHT AT THE SMITH CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS...a typically long PBS title for a music show that seems too short...featuring everyone from Willie Nelson, trumpeter Arturo Sandoval, violinist Joshua Bell, gospel great Mavis Staples, and a cookin' John Fogerty still doing Fortunate Son. 8pm
The Civil Wars have been having problems lately, but they were in fine form on AUSTIN CITY LIMITS...Saturday at 10pm
And Sunday, don't miss an inside look at the modeling industry on a new POV - GIRL MODEL.
This film strips away the facade of the modeling industry and follows a young girl who searches for glamour and an escape from poverty, confronting the harsh realities of a culture that worships youth -- and an industry that makes perpetual childhood a globally traded commodity. Sunday at 9pm
Instead, they found fertile soil, tough conditions and the beginnings of the world's most powerful nation. In the first hour of this special two-hour presentation, Time Team takes viewers on an expedition to Jamestown, where a British company's commercial enterprise planted the seeds of the United States. There have been nearly a million finds from the site's trenches, but this anniversary special is far more than just an excavation. The team retrieves piles of perfectly preserved 17th-century pieces, traces the names and life stories of the early American pioneers and learns why a third of them died within months of arrival...TIME TEAM SPECIAL EDITION...7pm
FRONTLINE continues its investigation of nuclear safety with an unprecedented account of the crisis inside the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex after a devastating earthquake and tsunami struck Japan on March 11, 2011. With exclusive eyewitness testimony from key figures in the drama -- including the Japanese Prime Minister and senior executives at the power company Tepco -- FRONTLINE tells the story of the workers struggling frantically to reconnect power inside the plant's pitch-dark and highly radioactive reactor buildings; the nuclear experts and officials in the Prime Minister's office fighting to get information as the crisis spiraled out of control; and the plant manager who disobeyed his executives' orders when he thought it would save the lives of his workers. The story profiles the Japanese soldiers and firefighters drafted to cool the reactors, who were wounded when the reactor housings exploded; and the families living near the nuclear plant, who unknowingly fled in the same direction as the radioactive plume, exposing themselves to dangerously high radiation levels...9pm
In the aftermath of the death of probably the most inspirational computer designer and innovator of the 21st century, this film takes an in-depth look at the life and work of Apple boss, Steve Jobs to examine how and why he revolutionized our world...
STEVE JOBS: ONE LAST THING...Wednesday night at 9pm
If you like Modern Family and Arrested Development, you'll recognize actor, comedian and writer David Cross immediately. He sits down with Evan Smith and disses on his career as a comedian, aging, marriage, time machines and why acting is like a vacation. Sure to be
entertaining...OVERHEARD WITH EVAN SMITH...THURSDAY at 8pm
Essentially every American who has listened to the radio or gone to summer camp knows Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land." The nation's signature folk singer/song-writer, Guthrie has had his music recorded by everyone from the Mormon Tabernacle Choir to the Irish rock band U2. Originally blowing out of the Dust Bowl in 1930s Depression Era America, he blended vernacular, rural music and populism to give voice to millions of downtrodden citizens. AMERICAN MASTERS: WOODY GUTHRIE - AIN'T GOT NO HOME...FRIDAY at 8pm
And in anticipation of the new season, we're running a CALL THE MIDWIFE MARATHON on SUNDAY beginning at 2pm. This moving, intimate, funny and true-to-life series, based on the best-selling memoirs of the late Jennifer Worth, tells colorful stories of midwifery and families in London's East End in the 1950s. Jenny Lee, a young woman raised in the wealthy English countryside, has chosen to become a nurse and now, as a newly qualified midwife, has gone to work in the poorest area of the city. Be ready for the new season beginning on the 31st...
POWERING THE PLANET presents 8 fast-paced case studies and stories about nations and communities transitioning from fossil fuels to renewable or low-carbon sources of energy. Taped in High Definition in Brazil, China, New Zealand, Scotland, Denmark, Spain, Morocco and across the United States, including the wind farms in West Texas...9pm
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...8pm
Our March Membership Drive is wrapping up...tonight featuring operatic pop group Il Divo perform their hits and new material at an intimate concert in the beautiful surroundings of the London Coliseum...8pm
After over eighty years in show business Jerry Lewis, one of the most beloved entertainers of our time makes a big splash on PBS. It's Jerry Lewis in performance - telling stories through narrative, musical performances and TV and Film montages including rare and never-before-seen film clips from his personal and private film vaults....Saturday at 7pm
Sunday it's a replay of GREAT PERFORMANCES: ANDREA BOCELLI LOVE IN PORTOFINO...the charm of the outdoor concert in the Italian port alone is worth a look...6pm
