Cities of the Sky
native america

Wed, Oct 11 3:00 P.M. NH Explore (11.2)  

Discover the cosmological secrets behind America's ancient cities. Scientists explore some of the world's largest pyramids and 3D-scan a lost city of monumental mounds on the Mississippi River; native elders reveal ancient powers of the sky.

Episode Duration: 56 minutes and 46 seconds

Episode Number: 103

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Wed, Oct 11 3:00 P.M. Cities of the Sky     NH Explore (11.2)
Thu, Oct 12 3:00 A.M. Cities of the Sky     NH Explore (11.2)
Thu, Oct 19 3:00 A.M. Cities of the Sky     NHPBS (11.1)

About Native America:

NATIVE AMERICA is a four-part PBS series that challenges everything we thought we knew about the Americas before and since contact with Europe.

It travels through 15,000-years to showcase massive cities, unique systems of science, art, and writing, and 100 million people connected by social networks and spiritual beliefs spanning two continents.

The series reveals some of the most advanced cultures in human history and the Native American people who created it and whose legacy continues, unbroken, to this day.

The series explores this extraordinary world through an unprecedented combination of cutting edge science and traditional indigenous knowledge.

It is NATIVE AMERICA as never seen before-featuring sacred rituals filmed for the first time, history changing scientific discoveries, and rarely heard voices from the living legacy of Native American culture.

NATIVE AMERICA rediscovers a past whose splendor and sophistication is only now being realized, and whose story has for too long remained untold.

Emmy-award winning cinematographers and Academy Award nominated animators bring to life towering pyramids, sprawling empires, and incredible indigenous legends.

NATIVE AMERICA reveals a unifying belief that inspires these diverse cultures - people are deeply connected to earth, sky, water, and all living things.

This belief is rooted in millennia of living on this land and continues to resonate in the lives of Native Americans to this day.


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Wed, Oct 4 3:00 P.M. From Caves to Cosmos     NH Explore (11.2)
Wed, Oct 4 4:00 P.M. Nature to Nations     NH Explore (11.2)
Thu, Oct 5 3:00 A.M. From Caves to Cosmos     NH Explore (11.2)
Thu, Oct 5 4:00 A.M. Nature to Nations     NH Explore (11.2)
Wed, Oct 11 3:00 P.M. Cities of the Sky     NH Explore (11.2)
Wed, Oct 11 4:00 P.M. New World Rising     NH Explore (11.2)
Thu, Oct 12 3:00 A.M. Cities of the Sky     NH Explore (11.2)
Thu, Oct 12 4:00 A.M. New World Rising     NH Explore (11.2)
Wed, Oct 18 4:00 A.M. From Caves to Cosmos     NHPBS (11.1)
Thu, Oct 19 3:00 A.M. Cities of the Sky     NHPBS (11.1)
Sat, Oct 21 3:00 A.M. New World Rising     NHPBS (11.1)
Tue, Oct 24 9:00 P.M. New Worlds     NHPBS (11.1)
Wed, Oct 25 1:00 A.M. New Worlds     NHPBS (11.1)
Thu, Oct 26 4:00 A.M. New Worlds     NHPBS (11.1)
Fri, Oct 27 7:00 P.M. New Worlds     NH World (11.3)
Sat, Oct 28 12:00 A.M. New Worlds     NH World (11.3)


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