American Masters
Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir
MONDAY, MAY 3, 8 PM
Explore the life of the groundbreaking author of The Joy Luck Club in this intimate portrait. Archival imagery, home movies, photographs, animation and original interviews create a vivid, colorful journey through Tan's inspiring life and career.
Airdates:
- WTVP-HD 47.1 – Mon, 05/03/2021 @ 8 PM
- WTVP-HD 47.1 – Tue, 05/04/2021 @ 12 AM
- WTVP-HD 47.1 – Wed, 05/05/2021 @ 2 AM
- WTVP-WORLD 47.3 – Sat, 05/08/2021 @ 12 AM
- WTVP-WORLD 47.3 – Sat, 05/08/2021 @ 8 AM
American Masters
Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir
Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir is an intimate portrait of the groundbreaking writer.
Octave Chanute: Patron Saint of Flight
SUNDAY, MAY 9, 6 PM
Learn about the life and important work that Octave Chanute accomplished throughout his life. Chanute capped off a successful career as one of the country's most important civil engineers with groundbreaking work in aviation. His experiments in the dunes of Northwest Indiana are known to be a turning point for aviation research, influencing notable flight pioneers such as Glenn Curtiss and the Wright Brothers. Chanute is buried in Peoria at Springdale Cemetery
Airdates:
- WTVP-HD 47.1 – Sun, 05/09/2021 @ 6 PM
- WTVP-REMOTE 47.2 – Wed, 05/26/2021 @ 5 PM
- WTVP-REMOTE 47.2 – Thu, 05/27/2021 @ 2 AM
- WTVP-REMOTE 47.2 – Sun, 05/30/2021 @ 5 PM
- WTVP-REMOTE 47.2 – Mon, 05/31/2021 @ 2 AM
POV
Through the Night
MONDAY, MAY 10, 9 PM
This verité documentary explores the personal cost of our modern economy through the stories of two working mothers and a childcare provider, whose lives intersect at a 24-hour daycare center in New Rochelle, New York.
Airdates:
- WTVP-HD 47.1 – Mon, 05/10/2021 @ 9 PM
- WTVP-HD 47.1 – Tue, 05/11/2021 @ 12:30 AM
- WTVP-HD 47.1 – Wed, 05/12/2021 @ 2 AM
- WTVP-HD 47.1 – Sat, 05/15/2021 @ 2 AM
- WTVP-WORLD 47.3 – Wed, 05/12/2021 @ 6:30 PM
- WTVP-WORLD 47.3 – Wed, 05/12/2021 @ 11:30 PM
- WTVP-WORLD 47.3 – Thu, 05/13/2021 @ 7:30 AM
- WTVP-WORLD 47.3 – Sat, 05/15/2021 @ 11 AM
POV
Trailer | Through The Night
Close bonds are forged between parents, children and caregivers at a 24-hour daycare.
UNADOPTED Official Trailer
Unadopted
MONDAY, MAY 10, 10:30 PM
All the drama of growing up mixed with the pain of family separation. This documentary explores the lives of teens in foster care through the eyes of journalist Noel Anaya, who was raised in the California foster care system.
Airdates:
- WTVP-HD 47.1 – Mon, 05/10/2021 @ 10:30 PM
American Experience
Billy Graham
MONDAY, MAY 17, 8 PM
Explore the life of one of the best-known and most influential Christian leaders of the 20th century. An international celebrity by age 30, he built a media empire, preached to millions worldwide and had the ear of tycoons, presidents and royalty.
Airdates:
- WTVP-HD 47.1 – Mon, 05/17/2021 @ 8 PM
- WTVP-HD 47.1 – Tue, 05/18/2021 @ 12 AM
- WTVP-HD 47.1 – Wed, 05/19/2021 @ 2 AM
- WTVP-HD 47.1 – Sat, 05/22/2021 @ 2 AM
- WTVP-WORLD 47.3 – Sat, 05/22/2021 @ 12 AM
- WTVP-WORLD 47.3 – Sat, 05/22/2021 @ 8 AM
American Experience
Trailer | Billy Graham
One of the best-known and most influential religious leaders of the 20th century.
The Greatest Bond
Follow three veterans transformed by the love of service dogs trained by female inmates.
The Greatest Bond
MONDAY, MAY 17, 10 PM
Follow this inspirational and heartwarming documentary, which highlights the journey of disabled veterans whose lives are forever changed through the unconditional love of service dogs that have been expertly trained by female prison inmates. Join three veterans as they meet their service dogs and work directly with the inmates in a Texas women’s prison.
Airdates:
- WTVP-HD 47.1 – Mon, 05/17/2021 @ 10 PM
Independent Lens
The Donut King
MONDAY, MAY 24, 9 PM
Hear the incredible story of Ted Ngoy. After fleeing Cambodia for the United States, he built a multi-million-dollar fried pastry empire, Christy's Donuts, and began living his American Dream. But a great rise often comes with a great fall.
Airdates:
- WTVP-HD 47.1 – Mon, 05/24/2021 @ 9 PM
- WTVP-HD 47.1 – Tue, 05/25/2021 @ 12:30 AM
- WTVP-HD 47.1 – Wed, 05/26/2021 @ 2 AM
- WTVP-HD 47.1 – Sat, 05/29/2021 @ 2 AM
- WTVP-WORLD 47.3 – Wed, 05/26/2021 @ 6:30 PM
- WTVP-WORLD 47.3 – Wed, 05/26/2021 @ 11:30 PM
- WTVP-WORLD 47.3 – Thu, 05/27/2021 @ 7:30 AM
- WTVP-WORLD 47.3 – Sat, 05/29/2021 @ 11 AM
Independent Lens
Meet the Donut King, the Cambodian refugee who built a multi-million-dollar empire baking
Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten
Learn about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, on the one hundredth anniversary of the crime.
Independent Lens
Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten
MONDAY, MAY 31, 9 PM
In the early 1900s, Greenwood was home to a thriving, independent “Black Wall Street” until the violence of the Tulsa Race Riots changed the community’s legacy forever.
Airdates:
- WTVP-HD 47.1 – Mon, 05/31/2021 @ 8 PM