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Programming Highlights | April 2023

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Join us in April, when we will be naming names--Kasturba Ghandi, Maria Telkes, Mother Teresa, Saba, SchilleandChol Soo Lee, to name a few of the subjects of extraordinary documentaries--and delving into the legacy of America and the Taliban, What to Do When Someone Dies,Our Quest for Meaning in the Age of Science and other fascinating topics.

KASTURBA GANDHI: 
ACCIDENTAL ACTIVIST 
SUNDAY, APRIL 2, 6 PM

Kasturba Gandhi lived her life in the shadows of her iconic husband, Mahatma Gandhi. Now she emerges. Kasturba Gandhi: Accidental Activist tells the untold story of how she became one of the first women activists in modern history, impacting the growing number of women activists today.

 

  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Sun, 04/02/2023 @ 6 PM

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
THE SUN QUEEN
TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 8 PM

Learn about inventor Mária Telkes, who spent nearly 50 years exploring how to harness the sun's power. Battling sexism at MIT, she persevered to design the first successfully solar-heated house in 1948 and held over 20 patents.

 

  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Tue, 04/04/2023 @ 8 PM
  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Wed, 04/05/2023 @ 12 AM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Tue, 04/18/2023 @ 8 PM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Wed, 04/19/2023 @ 1 AM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Wed, 04/19/2023 @ 9 AM

FRONTLINE
AMERICA AND THE TALIBAN
TUESDAYS, APRIL 4, 11, 25, 9 PM

Frontline's three-part series on how America's 20-year investment in Afghanistan culminated in Taliban victory. Drawing on decades of on-the-ground reporting and interviews with Taliban and U.S. officials, part one of an investigation of the missteps and consequences.

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EPISODE 1

  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Tue, 04/04/2023 @ 9 PM
  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Wed, 04/05/2023 @ 1 AM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Wed, 04/05/2023 @ 8 PM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Thu, 04/06/2023 @ 1 AM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Thu, 04/06/2023 @ 9 AM

EPISODE 2

  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Tue, 04/11/2023 @ 9 PM
  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Wed, 04/12/2023 @ 1 AM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Wed, 04/12/2023 @ 8 PM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Thu, 04/13/2023 @ 1 AM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Thu, 04/13/2023 @ 9 AM

EPISODE 3

  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Tue, 04/25/2023 @ 9 PM
  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Wed, 04/26/2023 @ 1 AM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Wed, 04/26/2023 @ 8 PM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Thu, 04/27/2023 @ 1 AM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Thu, 04/27/2023 @ 9 AM

 

MOTHER TERESA:
NO GREATER LOVE
SUNDAY, APRIL 9, 5:30 PM

Twenty-six years have passed since the death of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, sparking a renewed interest in this spiritual giant of the 20th century. Filmed on five continents and featuring unprecedented access to both institutional archives and the apostolates of the Missionaries of Charity, this film reveals not just who Mother Teresa was but how her singular vision to serve Christ in the poor continues to be realized through the Missionaries of Charity today.
 

  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Sun, 04/09/2023 @ 5:30 PM

HOW SABA KEPT SINGING
TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 9 PM

Musician David "Saba" Wisnia believed that he survived the horrors of Auschwitz by entertaining the Nazi guards with his beautiful singing voice. Join David and his grandson Avi as the pair embark on a journey exploring the mystery of Saba's past.
 

  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Tue, 04/18/2023 @ 9 PM
  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Wed, 04/19/2023 @ 1 AM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Wed, 04/19/2023 @ 8 PM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Thu, 04/20/2023 @ 1 AM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Thu, 04/20/2023 @ 9 AM

AZADI
SUNDAY, APRIL 23, 6 PM

Azadi centers on a workshop where seven refugee women gather for two weeks to learn multimedia skills to improve their employability. These women open their lives to explain where they came from (and how they arrived), but more importantly, how they embrace their new home and strive to contribute to their communities. This film presents a unique look into a situation that is rarely discussed but is around us daily.
 

  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Sun, 04/23/2023 @ 6 PM
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SCHILLE
SUNDAY, APRIL 23, 6:30 PM

A father and daughter work together to curate a career-spanning retrospective for Alice Schille, a largely forgotten yet world-renowned artist at the turn of the 20th century.

 

  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Sun, 04/23/2023 @ 6:30 PM
  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Tue, 04/25/2023 @ 12 AM

INDEPENDENT LENS
FREE CHOL SOO LEE
MONDAY, APRIL 24, 9 PM

Sentenced to life for a 1973 San Francisco murder, Korean immigrant Chol Soo Lee was set free after a pan-Asian solidarity movement, which included Korean, Japanese and Chinese Americans, helped to overturn his conviction. After 10 years of fighting for his life inside California state prisons, Lee found himself in a new fight to rise to the expectations of the people who believed in him.
 

  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Mon, 04/24/2023 @ 9 PM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Wed, 04/26/2023 @ 6:30 PM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Wed, 04/26/2023 @ 11:30 PM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Thu, 04/27/2023 @ 7:30 AM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Sat, 04/29/2023 @ 11 AM

WHAT TO DO WHEN SOMEONE DIES
THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 9 PM

A happily married teacher, Ellie, is devastated when her husband dies in a car crash — with another woman in his car. The police dismiss it as an extramarital affair, but Ellie feels sure that something is not right and is determined to learn the truth about the accident.

 

  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Thu, 04/27/2023 @ 9 PM

SEARCHING:
OUR QUEST FOR MEANING IN THE AGE OF SCIENCE
THE STARS AND THE OSPREY
SUNDAY, APRIL 30, 6 PM

The Stars and The Osprey begins with Alan Lightman's late-night experience alone on the ocean when he feels connected to the stars and ends with a memorable eye-to-eye encounter with a wild creature. Alan attempts to reconcile these transcendent experiences with the material world of atoms and molecules. Can science explain such experiences in terms of the brain? Are we humans nothing but matter?

  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Sun, 04/30/2023 @ 6 PM