Take a trip to the End of the World...

Covering more than 500,000 square miles of Chile and Argentina, this wild place is known as Patagonia. At its crown tip is a grand island, Tierra del Fuego, a land as harsh as it is beautiful. This film tracks several species that call this extreme environment home. Meet the neighbors...guanaco, condors, Magellanic penguins, orcas, parrots and elephant seals. Eden at the End of the World...7pm

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Are you ready for some football?

High school football has never had a higher profile, with nationally televised games, corporate sponsorships and minute-by-minute coverage on sports websites. In northwest Arkansas, FRONTLINE examines one ambitious high school team working its way towards national renown. With a superstar quarterback at the helm, tiny Shiloh Christian is striving to join the ranks of the country's best high school teams -- teams whose workout schedules, practices and styles of play increasingly imitate the pros. But as high school players grow bigger,faster and stronger, there are growing concerns about the health and safety of these young players...FOOTBALL HIGH...9pm

Baez and Dylan, back together again...

ANTIQUES ROADSHOW arrives in Hartford...appraisal highlights include a 1963 poster for a Joan Baez/Bob Dylan concert at New Haven Arena, a pair of silk shoes purportedly worn by one of George Washington's dance partners; and a collection of 200-year-old Wedgwood pottery buttons found in an attic and valued at $1,500 to $2,000 for the set...7pm

RFK IN THE LAND OF APARTHEID: A RIPPLE OF HOPE tells the unknown story of Robert Kennedy's 1966 visit to South Africa during the worst years of Apartheid. The film follows Senator Kennedy to the site of his famous "Ripple of Hope" speech at the University of Cape Town and his encounter with Afrikaans students at Stellenbosch, the pro-Apartheid university. With an original sound track by American musician Jason Moran and voices from the University of Cape Town Africa Choir, the film evokes the connections between the American Civil Rights Movement and the Anti-Apartheid Movement in South Africa...9pm

Amarillo has a poetry slam?

Poets from a wide range of backgrounds and age groups contributed Amarillo Public Library’s “After Hours Open Mic Night Poetry Reading and Coffee House” series in tonight's artZONE. Also featured, the Lone Star Ballet’s original production, “Lone Star Trilogy,” about Panhandle legends Cynthia Ann Parker, Mary Ann Goodnight and Frenchy McCormick...and a highlight of the piece would be the elegant pas de deux between dancers portraying Cynthia Ann Parker and Comanche Chief Peta Nocona, with accompaniment by Kwahadi dancer and flutist Daniel Rigsby.
That's the third installment of KACV's local production artZONE...8pm

Summer too hot? Here are some shows about ice...

Nature presents Fellowship of the Whales...
This is the story of a humpback whale's first year as she makes the long journey from her birthplace in the subtropical waters in Hawaii to summer feeding grounds in the cold seas off Alaska's southeast coast...wacky adventures ensue...7pm

On an ice shelf at the South Pole, NOVA studies evidence from the seabed that reveals details of climate and fauna from a time when dinosaurs and forests once thrived in Antarctica. Once thought to be locked in a solid deep freeze for the last 15 million years, it now looks like Antarctica's ice has melted and frozen again dozens of times during that period. This breakthrough discovery carries ominous implications for coastal cities around the globe...of course...8pm

The REAL pirates of the Caribbean...

Globe Trekker reveals 250 years of perilous treasure hunting and brutal competition among the Spanish, English, Dutch, French and Portuguese. Pirates were vying for gold, silver and other riches. Galleons were sunk, thousands were killed and, for centuries after the New World was discovered in 1492, it was the pirates who ruled the waves. Megan explores the legend and lore to find out how far they went to lay their hands on these treasures, how hard it was to keep, and what still remains from that extraordinary era...8pm

one man's trash is another man's treasure...

This documentary travels around the country to parking lots, fairgrounds, drive-ins, sidewalks and anywhere else someone has posted a sign saying, "Flea Market." It's capitalism mixed with craziness. It's amazing old stuff, great salespeople, the ancient tradition of the open-air market and the possibility of finding a bargain, all uniting shoppers across the nation...Flea Market Documentary...9pm

The screaming audience and the bashful boys in the band...

Who can forget seeing the Beatles on Ed Sullivan?
Our August Membership Drive continues this weekend with more from Daniel O'Donnell, Welk, Ed Sullivan Comedy bits as well as classic rock and rollers from his variety show... classic song performances from 1963-1968, including the Beatles' American television debut, the Doors' infamous one-time-only appearance, the Rolling Stones, Sly and the Family Stone, the Mamas and the Papas and more...Sunday at 5pm

And don't miss the Les Miserable 25th Anniversary Concert Sunday night...7pm

I'll even bet his bow-tie is undone...

As our August Membership Drive continues, Michael Feinstein presents an evening dedicated to The Sinatra Era - celebrating the writers, music,and performers of that fabulous time when Frank Sinatra reigned supreme. Backed by a seventeen-piece Big Band, Feinstein conjures up the biggest musical legends of that golden era using their extraordinary music, spiced with intimate stories about their larger than life personalities...8:30pm

And earlier, the New York experience is kicked off by a select group of fans and friends in Greenwich Village who had the rare opportunity to experience Barbra Streisand's performance in the up-close-and-personal setting of the Village Vanguard...backed by a 4 piece combo, this is Barbra at her most intimate...7pm

You may have heard her, but you really have to see her...

and you still may not believe it. She's only 10 years old and already familiar to national audiences from her debut appearances on America's Got Talent and Oprah. Jackie Evancho is the astonishing vocal sensation and the youngest star in GREAT PERFORMANCES's recent Hitman Returns: David Foster & Friends concert, performing virtuoso interpretations of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Pie Jesu" and Puccini's "O Mio Babbino Caro." Foster returns as co-host of the concert, also serving as music director. Among the performance highlights are "When You Wish Upon A Star," "Nella Fantasia," "Nessun Dorma," "Angel," "Somewhere," "All I Ask Of You," "Ombra Mai Fu," "Imaginer," "To Believe," and "Dream With Me."...7pm

And then Harry Connick Jr. returns to broadway with a killer swing band...doing "It Had To Be You" and "St. James Infirmary", along with many others...8:30

What do Pat Boone and Keith Richards have in common?

This weekend you'll find out...it's time for our August Membership Drive, which means you'll be missing some of our regular schedule, but you'll be getting some really cool music programs in their place. Saturday features such diverse music as Pat Boone, Daniel O'Donnell and early Stones on Ed Sullivan's Rock and Roll Classics.
Sunday we bounce back with All Star Bluegrass Celebration and Billy Joel Live at Shea Stadium. Be sure to check schedules for showtimes, and remember the purpose of these special shows is to encourage more people to become members of public television...thank you.

If you cook, you'll make others happy...

Just one of her inarguable rules of the road...check out her blog food52 for more.
Amanda grew up in a family where everyone, including her father, cooked. In college, she worked at a bakery on Saturday nights and drove a truck around Boston at dawn, delivering the bread. She later worked in bakeries and restaurants in Germany, Switzerland, Italy and France. After writing her first book, The Cook and the Gardener, Amanda was hired by the New York Times as a food reporter.
Tonight on Overheard with Evan Smith we get the scoop on the food we love...8pm

Killer snakes, rampant rats, and we wonder about stress?

Rearing up with its head four feet above the ground, Africa's Black Mamba strikes with deadly precision, delivering venom that is packed with three different kinds of toxins and is ten times more deadly than needed to kill an adult human. Without treatment the mortality rate is 100%...in the tiny country of Swaziland a team of herpetologists has an entirely different "take" on these creatures and hopes their six-week study will change public perception of what they feel is the world's most misunderstood snake...NATURE...7pm

Every 48 years, the inhabitants of the remote Indian state of Mizoram suffer a horrendous ordeal known locally as mautam. An indigenous species of bamboo, blanketing 30 percent of Mizoram's 8,100 square miles, blooms once every half-century, spurring an explosion in the rat population which feeds off the bamboo's fruit...the rats run amok & panic ensues...NOVA investigates at 8pm

And at 9, National Geographic how dangerous stress can be...really...

What if it were you too...

In this FRONTLINE and ITVS joint production, journalist Dave Iverson sets off on a personal journey to explore the scientific, ethical, and political debate that surrounds Parkinson's, a disease at the center of the ongoing controversy over embryonic stem cell research. Having received his own diagnosis Iverson talks to scientists on the cutting edge of new cures and therapies -- and he has conversations with fellow Parkinson's sufferers like actor Michael J. Fox and writer Michael Kinsley...FRONTLINE: My Father, My Brother, and Me...9pm

Abraham and Mary comes to the tragic end...

The end has arrived for the excellent 6 part American Experience documentary about the Lincolns and their view from both inside and outside the White House...this episode tells the story of the last 16 months of the Civil War - from Gettysburg to the surrender at Appomattox to Abraham Lincoln's assassination...9pm

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ANTIQUES ROADSHOW drives to the Gilmore Car Museum near Grand Rapids, Michigan, for a look at its collection of more than 1,500 hood ornaments or "mascots." Appraisal highlights: a letter from Grand Rapids native son, Gerald Ford, written in 1967 to his former kindergarten teacher; a pair of earrings made from cufflinks given to the guest's grandfather by Czar Nicholas of Russia; and an 1881 painting by noted Hudson River School artist Jasper Cropsey, valued at $300,000...tonight at 7PM, followed by another episode from Spokane at 8.

Later this week, National Geographic gets all stressed out over stress...