Programming Highlights | April 2022
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HIDDEN TURKEY
SUNDAY, APRIL 3, 6 PM
Hidden Turkey allows you to immerse yourself in Turkey's evolving story and enduring culture and embark on many life-changing journeys. Among the locations visited: Istanbul, Cappadocia, Antakya, Antalya and Laodicea.
- WTVP-HD 47.1 - Sun, 04/03/2022 @ 6 PM
- WTVP-HD 47.1 - Tue, 04/05/2022 @ 12 AM
- WTVP-HD 47.1 - Tue, 04/05/2022 @ 12 PM
SECRETS OF THE SURFACE:
THE MATHEMATICAL VISION OF MARYAM MIRZAKHANI
THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 10 PM
Examine the life and mathematical work of Maryam Mirzakhani, an Iranian immigrant to the United States who became a superstar in her field. In 2014, before her untimely death at the age of 40, she became both the first woman and the first Iranian to be awarded the Fields Medal, the most prestigious award in mathematics, often equated in stature with the Nobel Prize.
- WTVP-HD 47.1 - Thu, 04/07/2022 @ 10 PM
- WTVP-HD 47.1 - Fri, 04/15/2022 @ 12 PM
- WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Tue, 03/08/2022 @ 7 PM
- WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Wed, 03/09/2022 @ 12 AM
- WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Wed, 03/09/2022 @ 8 AM
INDEPENDENT LENS
JIM ALLISON: BREAKTHROUGH
MONDAY, APRIL 11, 9 PM
This is a story of one warmhearted, stubborn man's visionary quest to find a cure for cancer. Jim Allison: Breakthrough is an homage to an unconventional superhero — a pioneering, harmonica-playing scientist from a small town in Texas who triumphed over a doubtful medical establishment to save innumerable lives around the world and win the Nobel Prize.
- WTVP-HD 47.1 - Mon, 04/11/2022 @ 9 PM
- WTVP-HD 47.1 - Wed, 04/13/2022 @ 2 AM
- WTVP-HD 47.1 - Sun, 04/17/2022 @ 2 AM
- WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Wed, 04/20/2022 @ 6 PM
- WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Wed, 04/20/2022 @ 11 PM
- WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Thu, 04/21/2022 @ 7 AM
- WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Sat, 04/23/2022 @ 11 AM
Independent Lens
Trailer | Jim Allison: Breakthrough
The story of one warmhearted, stubborn man’s visionary quest to find a cure for cancer.
LITTLE BUT FIERCE
MONDAY, APRIL 11, 10:30 PM
Madison Davis is a nine-year-old girl with a rare form of brain cancer, undergoing multiple rounds of chemotherapy, clinical trials and surgeries. Madison has found some relief by using cannabis products to treat her symptoms of severe pain and seizures.
- WTVP-HD 47.1 - Mon, 04/11/2022 @ 10:30 PM
SEARCHING FOR JUSTICE:
LIFE AFTER LOCKUP
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 9 PM
More than 600,000 people leave state and federal prisons in the United States, and millions more cycle in and out of jails every year. Many of those individuals find that even though they have served their time, they still are not free, often facing barriers to housing, food, employment and more. Their criminal histories follow them long into the future, making staying out of jail or prison difficult.
- WTVP-HD 47.1 - Wed, 04/13/2022 @ 9 PM
- WTVP-HD 47.1 - Thu, 04/14/2022 @ 1 AM
- WTVP-HD 47.1 - Fri, 04/15/2022 @ 2 AM
- WTVP-HD 47.1 - Sun, 04/17/2022 @ 1 AM
WHEN COMEDY WENT TO SCHOOL
THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 10 PM
Why are there so many Jewish comedians? When Comedy Went to School answers this question with an entertaining portrait of this country's greatest generation of comics. Comics Jerry Lewis, Sid Caesar, Jackie Mason, Mort Sahl and Jerry Stiller make appearances in the film, telling jokes and telling their stories. The answer is also found in upstate New York's Catskill Mountains. Those Catskill resorts provided the setting for a remarkable group of young Jewish American comedians to hone their craft and become worldwide legends.
- WTVP-HD 47.1 - Thu, 04/14/2022 @ 10 PM
POV:
ON THE DIVIDE
MONDAY, APRIL 18, 9 PM
On The Divide follows the story of three Latinx people living in McAllen, Texas, who, despite their views, are connected by the most unexpected of places: the last reproductive health clinic on the U.S./Mexico border. As threats to the clinic and their personal safety mount, these three are forced to make decisions they could never have imagined.
- WTVP-HD 47.1 - Mon, 04/18/2022 @ 9 PM
- WTVP-HD 47.1 - Wed, 04/20/2022 @ 2:30 AM
- WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Sat, 04/23/2022 @ 7 PM
- WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Sat, 04/23/2022 @ 11 PM
POV
Trailer | On the Divide
The lives of three Latinx people intersect at the last abortion clinic on the border.
POSITIVE ALL THE WAY
MONDAY, APRIL 18, 10:30 PM
This is the inspiring story of the Paralympic movement's recent revolution, profiling its extraordinary founder, Sir Philip Craven, who was paralyzed at age 16 but determined to make an impact in the way the world sees these courageous athletes.
- WTVP-HD 47.1 - Mon, 04/18/2022 @ 10:30 PM
CHANGING PLANET
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 7 PM
Join the conservation scientist Dr. M. Sanjayan for a global environmental health check of seven of the Earth's bellwether biomes. These vulnerable habitats are changing from the Arctic to the Amazon, revealing surprising animal behaviors as species adapt.
- WTVP-HD 47.1 - Wed, 04/20/2022 @ 7 PM
- WTVP-HD 47.1 - Thu, 04/21/2022 @ 12 AM
- WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Tue, 04/26/2022 @ 6 PM
- WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Tue, 04/26/2022 @ 11 PM
- WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Wed, 04/27/2022 @ 7 AM
SECRETS OF SACRED ARCHITECTURE
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 9 PM
Sacred buildings represented our greatest feats of innovative engineering and artistic design for most of America's history. For a time, America's tallest structures and its largest-capacity buildings were churches, and a Maryland church organ stood as the most complex machine ever built. Secrets of Sacred Architecture unlocks the elements of design that make these innovative structures so fascinating and unveils the meaning embedded in religious architecture.
- WTVP-HD 47.1 - Wed, 04/20/2022 @ 9 PM
- WTVP-HD 47.1 - Thu, 04/21/2022 @ 3 AM
- WTVP-HD 47.1 - Thu, 04/21/2022 @ 12 PM
- WTVP-HD 47.1 - Sun, 04/24/2022 @ 12 AM