No one comes close to the diversity of voices and perspectives that air every day on WTVP. August brings stories from the royal palaces of England, native nations in the Americas and nearby Rockford, plus explorations of pre-Civil War and post-9/11 America. And these highlights are just the beginning.
From the earliest days of flight, the royal family has loved to fly in style. We lift the curtain on five-star regal luxury at 30,000 feet and tell the story of a royal love affair that shows no signs of abating.
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Using a fresh and innovative combination of interview, archive and state-of-the-art graphics, In Their Own Words: Princess Diana offers a unique exploration of Diana's life through a contemporary lens that credits her choices, her suffering and her triumphs as the ultimate disrupter for a generation of women across the globe.
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First-time filmmaker Bing Liu’s documentary Minding the Gap is a coming-of-age saga of three skateboarding friends in their hometown of Rockford, Illinois. While navigating a complex relationship between his camera and his friends, Bing explores the gap between fathers and sons, between discipline and domestic abuse, and ultimately, that precarious chasm between childhood and becoming an adult.
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Underground Railroad: The William Still Story is the story of a humble Philadelphia clerk who risked his life shepherding runaway slaves to freedom in the tumultuous years leading up to America’s Civil War. William Still was the director of a complex network of abolitionists, sympathizers and safe houses that stretched from Philadelphia to what is now Southern Ontario.
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Combine ancient wisdom and modern science to answer a 15,000-year-old question: Who were the First Peoples in America? The answer hides in Amazonian cave paintings, Mexican burial chambers, New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon and waves off California’s coast.
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In the summer of 1910, hundreds of wildfires raged across the Northern Rockies. By the time it was all over, more than 3 million acres had burned and at least 78 firefighters were dead. It was the largest fire in American history.
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Lucy Worsley investigates the inside story of the English Reformation. Was Henry VIII's desire to divorce Catherine of Aragon and marry Anne Boleyn the real reason for England's split from Catholic Europe? Or was a secret political agenda at work behind the scenes?
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Rember Yahuarcani is an Indigenous painter from the White Heron clan of the Uitoto Nation in Peru. He left to pursue a successful career in Lima, but when he finds himself in a creative rut, he returns home to his Amazonian community of Pebas, visiting his father, a painter, and his mother, a sculptor, and discovers why the stories of his ancestors cannot be forgotten.
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Explore the rise of great American nations, from monarchies to democracies. Investigate lost cities in Mexico, a temple in Peru, a potlatch ceremony in the Pacific Northwest and a tapestry of shell beads in upstate New York whose story inspired our own democracy.
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TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 8 PM on WTVP 47.1
Generation 9/11 introduces the youth born in the wake of the Twin Towers attacks. An estimated 108 unborn children lost their fathers in the attacks. The PBS International-distributed film follows this group of teenagers, weaving together various milestones in their lives, such as their first day of school, the first time the absence of their father was felt and how they learned about how their father died.
Generation 9/11 introduces the youth born in the wake of the Twin Towers attacks. An estimated 108 unborn children lost their fathers in the attacks. The PBS International-distributed film follows this group of teenagers, weaving together various milestones in their lives, such as their first day of school, the first time the absence of their father was felt and how they learned about how their father died.
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