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THEME: Mary Cassatt
NATURE - Wild Ireland: Kingdom of Stone
Wednesday, 5/22 from 8-9 pm NHPBS
Follow the story of a pine marten as she takes us on a journey through a desert of gray stones called the Burren, home to some of Ireland's most enchanting wildlife. NATURE Streaming Video
NOVA - Decoding the Universe: Cosmos
Wednesday, 5/22 from 9-10 pm NHPBS
How big is the universe? Will it ever end? Why is so much of it made of mysterious dark matter and energy? See how mind-bending discoveries over the past 50 years have revolutionized our understanding of the universe. NOVA Streaming Video
POMPEII: THE NEW DIG - Escape
Wednesday, 5/22 from 10-11 pm NHPBS
A new excavation in Pompeii continues to unearth rich discoveries. Professor Steven Tuck of Miami University joins the team to look for evidence of Pompeiians who might have survived the eruption of AD 79. POMPEII: THE NEW DIG Streaming Video
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE - Surviving the Dust Bowl
Wednesday, 5/22 from 2-3 pm NH WORLD
They were called "Black Blizzards," dark clouds reaching miles into the sky, churning millions of tons of dirt into torrents of destruction. For ten years beginning in 1930, dust storms ravaged the parched and overplowed southern plains, turning bountiful wheat fields into deserts. Disease, hardship, and death followed, yet the majority of people stayed on, steadfastly refusing to give up on the land and a way of life. AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Streaming Video
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE - Citizen Hearst: Part One
Wednesday, 5/22 from 3-5 pm NH WORLD
Trace the rise of William Randolph Hearst, who built the nation's largest media empire by the 1930s. Born into one of America's wealthiest families, he used his properties to achieve unprecedented political power, then ran for office himself. AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Streaming Video
INDPENDENT LENS - Free Chol Soo Lee
Wednesday, 5/22 from 7-8:30 pm NH WORLD
Sentenced to death for a 1973 San Francisco murder, Korean immigrant Chol Soo Lee was set free after a pan-Asian solidarity movement of Korean, Japanese, and Chinese Americans helped to overturn his conviction. After 10 years of fighting for his life inside San Quentin, Lee found himself in a new fight to rise to the expectations of the people who believed in him. INDEPENDENT LENS Streaming Video
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