Soul legends from the archives of “American Bandstand” and “Where The Action Is.” bring back memories from Sunday nights, after school weekdays and Saturday afternoons and the hits you know and love.
On October 29, 1929, the lifelong dreams of hundreds of thousands of stock market investors — middle-class secretaries, clerks, small businessmen — vanished in a few hours, along with their hard-earned savings when the stock market crashed. This program examines the economic boom before the crash, whether the crash was predictable and if it precipitated the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Watch American Experience Tuesday, April 24, 2012 at 7pm.
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GLOBAL HEALTH FRONTIERS: FOUL WATER, FIERY SERPENT, the first in a series of public television specials chronicling the devastating illnesses affecting the world’s poor, follows a cast of engaging, passionate characters as they confront the disabling parasitic infection known as guinea worm disease. The film, narrated by Academy Award®-winner Sigourney Weaver, documents the efforts of American health workers and community partners over the course of three years as they track and treat the last-known cases of guinea worm in Ghana and Sudan.
Watch Global Health Frontiers Friday, April 20, 2012 at 10pm.
THE HORSEMEN COMETH follows the world’s only P-51 Mustang formation aerobatic team as they harness the grace and power of the legendary “Cadillacs of the Sky.” The film documents the journey of three renowned air show pilots as they attempt to tame these vintage fighters and showcase the plane’s heritage at air shows around the world. Shot in stunning high definition, THE HORSEMEN COMETH gives viewers a chance to vicariously experience the heart-pounding ride of risk and reward undertaken by these daring pilots. Cameras go into the cockpits and the skies as the pilots deftly fly in lock-step formation while performing dramatic aerial maneuvers. In addition to these thrilling flight segments, the documentary introduces the mechanics and engineers responsible for maintaining and fixing the vintage planets, the World War II veterans who once flew the Mustangs, and James Horner, the award-winning composer who wrote the score for this special.
The Horseman Cometh, Thursday, April 19, 2012 at 10pm.
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