Back to School | August 2024
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FRUIT: IT TAKES A VILLAGE TO SAVE LIVES
SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 7 PM
This film explores the necessity of providing positive guidance and opportunity to reimagine success for Black youth. It examines the story of Valiant Cross Academy Middle School in Montgomery, AL. The school puts a strong focus on developing character through rigorous academic lessons, discipline and leadership training.
- WTVP-HD 47.1 - Sun, 08/11/2024 @ 8:00 PM
- WTVP-HD 47.1 - Mon, 08/12/2024 @ 12:00 AM
- WTVP-HD 47.1 - Tue, 08/13/2024 @ 3:00 AM
- WTVP-REMOTE 47.5 - Wed, 08/14/2024 @ 6:00 PM
- WTVP-REMOTE 47.5 - Wed, 08/14/2024 @ 10:30 PM
- WTVP-REMOTE 47.5 - Sun, 08/18/2024 @ 6:00 PM
- WTVP-REMOTE 47.5 - Sun, 08/18/2024 @ 10:30 PM
BAREFOOT COLLEGE
MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 10 PM
This documentary examines a unique community-based education program in rural India. While seemingly far removed from the American experience, it offers lessons on how the current debate around educational reform might be focused and how curriculums could be transformed in the United States.
- WTVP-HD 47.1 - Mon, 08/12/2024 @ 10:00 PM
- WTVP-HD 47.1 - Wed, 08/14/2024 @ 12:00 AM
- WTVP-REMOTE 47.5 - Wed, 08/21/2024 @ 6:30 PM
- WTVP-REMOTE 47.5 - Wed, 08/21/2024 @ 11:00 PM
- WTVP-REMOTE 47.5 - Sun, 08/25/2024 @ 6:30 PM
- WTVP-REMOTE 47.5 - Sun, 08/25/2024 @ 11:00 PM
SECRET SONG
MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 10 PM
The Secret Song chronicles the final months of Doug Goodkin’s 45-year career teaching music to children in San Francisco. Goodkin’s time-tested methods are thrown into disarray as the pandemic forces schools into distance learning, and a music program that always prioritized learning music through the ear, not the eye, has to find a way to keep the music playing and the learning going.
- WTVP-HD 47.1 - Sun, 08/18/2024 @ 10:00 PM
- WTVP-HD 47.1 - Mon, 08/19/2024 @ 3:00 AM
- WTVP-HD 47.1 - Wed, 08/21/2024 @ 4:00 AM
The Secret SongTrailer
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A tight-knit school with music at its core faces the challenge of learning under lockdown.
Lydia: Ahead of Her TimeLydia: Ahead of Her Time | Trailer
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Follow the remarkable journey of Lydia Moss Bradley and her legacy in Peoria and beyond.
LYDIA AHEAD OF HER TIME
MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 10 PM
Follow the remarkable journey of Lydia Moss Bradley, from her humble beginnings in Indiana to the loss of her husband and six children, the founding of Bradley University as a school for watchmakers and the beginnings of the Peoria Park District. Society told her women were not allowed, but her skill and determination broke down barriers and left a lasting legacy in central Illinois and beyond.
- WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Sat, 08/17/2024 @ 10:00 PM
- WTVP-HD 47.1 - Mon, 08/19/2024 @ 10:00 PM
- WTVP-HD 47.1 - Wed, 08/21/2024 @ 2:00 AM
- WTVP-HD 47.1 - Sat, 08/24/2024 @ 2:30 AM
EASTMAN AT 100: A CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION
SUNDAY, AUGUST 25, 10 PM
Filmed over the course of three years, Eastman at 100 follows individual students throughout their academic year, offering a firsthand look at their transformational experiences. Eastman’s story is told through intimate interviews with professors, administrators, staff, community partners and high-profile alumni.
- WTVP-HD 47.1 - Sun, 08/25/2024 @ 10:00 PM
- WTVP-HD 47.1 - Mon, 08/26/2024 @ 3:00 AM
- WTVP-REMOTE 47.5 - Wed, 08/28/2024 @ 6:00 PM
- WTVP-REMOTE 47.5 - Wed, 08/28/2024 @ 10:30 PM
- WTVP-REMOTE 47.5 - Sun, 09/01/2024 @ 6:00 PM
- WTVP-REMOTE 47.5 - Sun, 09/01/2024 @ 10:30 PM
LESSONS OF BASKETBALL AND WAR
MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 10 PM
Refugee Somali middle school girls struggle to put the hostility and distrust of war behind them with the help of a dedicated educator, basketball coach and peacemaker.
- WTVP-HD 47.1 - Mon, 08/26/2024 @ 10:00 PM
- WTVP-HD 47.1 - Wed, 08/28/2024 @ 12:00 PM