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Howards End | Episodes 1-4
Academy Award®–winning screenwriter Kenneth Lonergan (Manchester by the Sea) brings a fresh take to adapting E.M. Forster’s classic novel with its portrait of two imaginative and life-loving sisters in Edwardian England as they develop relationships within both the upper and lower classes. Stars Matthew Macfadyen, Hayley Atwell, Philippa Coulthard, and Tracey Ullman, among others.
Expires March 31, 2025
The Crimson Rivers | Season 2
Old-school police detective Pierre Niemans and his former student Camille Delaunay tackle complex, brutal murder cases with unsettling rituals in this thrilling French crime drama. From Walter Presents, in French with English subtitles.
Expires April 1, 2025
Swoon | Episodes 1-2
In the heart of Stockholm, the beautiful Grona Lund–with its carousels for families–is locked in a decades-long rivalry with Nojesfaltet–a simple amusement park with cheap beer, live music and lightly dressed ladies. But as WWII rages, the young heirs, John and Ninni, find love more thrilling than war. Loosely inspired by actual events. From Walter Presents, in Swedish with English subtitles.
Expires April 1, 2025
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Antiques Roadshow | Living History Farms, Hour 1
ROADSHOW visits Living History Farms for treasures including a 1977 Kenner Darth Vader figure, a Tippco toy motorcycle with a sidecar, and a Ty Cobb professional model bat, ca. 1925. Can you guess the top $75,000 to $125,000 treasure?
Finding Edna Lewis
From Freetown, Virginia, to New York City, Edna Lewis carved a remarkable path. She introduced many Americans to seasonal cooking, Southern cooking — the cooking of the Black community in rural Virginia that raised her. Yet despite a life that included fame and acclaim, she is not a household name. In FINDING EDNA LEWIS, Deb Freeman travels to the places where Miss Lewis made her mark.
Finding Your Roots | The Ties that Bind
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. meets actors Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard—a married couple who discover that their ancestors had some remarkable similarities. In stories that span continents and centuries, Gates introduces Kristen and Dax to the soldiers, settlers, and criminals who make up their roots, allowing his guests to understand themselves—and their families--as never before.
History with David Rubenstein | Danielle Allen
John F. Kennedy urged Americans to ask what they could do for their country. Scholar Danielle Allen argues that civic engagement is key to a just society, advocating for "power-sharing liberalism,” a framework where no group holds a monopoly on power, and the people’s voices shape government.
NOVA | Pompeii's Secret Underworld
For over two centuries, archaeologists have hailed Pompeii as a sophisticated city at the heart of an advanced ancient civilization. But a series of new excavations is painting a much more complex picture of the city tragically buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE.
Secrets of the Dead | Plunderer: The Life and Times of a Nazi Art Thief (Part One)
Historian Jonathan Petropoulos investigates the life of former Nazi art dealer Bruno Lohse, who became Hermann Göring’s personal collector in Paris, tasked with finding the most desirable works of art the Nazis stole from Jews. Post-war, Lohse spent a brief time in prison, but then returned to Munich and resumed his career as a dealer, more often than not trading in art looted during World War II.
America Made with Love
Travel coast to coast to meet extraordinary artisans — including a cowboy bootmaker, a milliner who fashions hats to wear to the Kentucky Derby, and a jewelry artist inspired by Indigenous ancestry — whose passion, vision and creativity embody the essence of American ingenuity rooted in tradition.
Great Migrations: A People on the Move | Coming to America
Episode 4 of Great Migrations tells the story of African and Caribbean immigrants in the 20th and 21st centuries. It traces their journeys to the United States, the contributions they have made to the nation’s economy and culture, and how they have impacted what it means to be Black in America.
American Masters | The Disappearance of Miss Scott
Learn about jazz virtuoso and screen superstar Hazel Scott, the first Black American to have their own television show. An early civil rights pioneer, she faced down the Red Scare at the risk of losing her career and was a champion for equality. The film features interviews with Mickey Guyton, Tracie Thoms, Amanda Seales, and Sheryl Lee Ralph as the voice of Hazel Scott.
Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light
Wolf Hall, starring Damian Lewis and Mark Rylance, tells the story of Thomas Cromwell, a blacksmith’s son who rises from the ashes and deftly picks his way through King Henry VIII's court. Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light, the sequel to Wolf Hall, based on the final novel in Hilary Mantel’s trilogy.
Marie Antoinette | Season 2
Marie Antoinette is just a teenager when she leaves Austria to marry the Dauphin of France. At Versailles, under the complex rules of the French court, she suffers from not being able to live her life the way she wants, under pressure to continue the Bourbon line and secure the Franco-Austrian alliance.
Walter Presents
Davos 1917 | Season 1
Amid the chaos of WWI, a young woman in neutral Switzerland will do anything to find her daughter while secret agents lurk. From Walter Presents, in German with English subtitles.