Program Highlights

Anna Netrebko opens the Met season with her portrayal of the ill-fated queen driven insane by her unfaithful king. She sings one of opera’s greatest mad scenes in this Met premiere production by David McVicar. Ekaterina Gubanova is her rival, Jane Seymour, Ildar Abdrazakov sings Henry VIII and Marco Armiliato conducts.

Megan McCormick explores Shanghai, where she tries her hand at contortionism with the famous acrobats. Next, she learns about the silk trade in Suzhou, travels by train through the Yellow Mountains, fishes the Yangtze River, visits the caves at Dazu and marvels at the Terracotta Army in X'ian (pictured).

Only a decade removed from the height of its own civil rights movement, the United States becomes a key battleground as African Americans lead a grassroots movement to force the United States to reverse its policies toward South Africa.

In its premiere episode, WORLD ON TRIAL examines the legality of France's 2004 "headscarf law," which forbids the wearing of conspicuous religious garb in primary and secondary public schools. Should the law be stricken as a discriminatory? Or, should the law be upheld as an appropriate mechanism of preserving French secularism in the public arena?

CIVIL WAR SONGS AND STORIES captures the sounds and tales from the Civil War era. Produced to mark the 150th anniversary of the conflict, the documentary highlights the stories behind the songs and the emotional impact of music on soldiers and families before, during and after the war between the states. Actor David Keith narrates.

This program documents a theatrical group comprised entirely of disabled performers. Through PHAMALY, actors with Parkinson's, Cerebral Palsy, blindness, paralyzation or amputations, and many other disabilities have an opportunity to exhibit their talents and pursue their dreams.

The GLOBE TREKKER hosts explore some of the world's great natural wonders. Their destinations include erupting volcanoes in Hawaii and Java, the Perito Moreno glacier in Patagonia, the Arctic, the Amazon rainforest, the Sahara Desert, Australia's Great Barrier Reef, Victoria Falls and more. Pictured: Iguazu Falls, Argentina.

Childhood obesity has more than tripled in the past 30 years. And this is not baby fat – more than one in four of Colorado's children ages 10 to 17 are obese or overweight. This week, host Steffan and a panel of experts, including Cody Belzley, Vice President of Health Initiatives for the Colorado Children’s Campaign, discuss what some believe is becoming a nationwide epidemic.

The brutal effect of war on ordinary people is the subtext of this World War II drama from Finland. Perkola (Peter Franzen) is the leader of a small Finnish platoon sent on a mission into Russian territory in 1942. Perkola finds that he and his men are slowly becoming capable of acts of shocking violence he would have believed unthinkable as a civilian. Subtitled.

Hosted by icons Peter Noone of Herman's Hermits and Davy Jones of The Monkees, this all-new concert spectacular features hits and favorites of the AM radio era, including Paul Revere & The Raiders, Gary Lewis & The Playboys, The Kingsmen, The Ventures, Question Mark & The Mysterians, and Jefferson Starship (pictured).

This special celebrates the four-decade career of Peter Yarrow, Noel Paul Stookey and Mary Travers. It features rare archival performances of songs that energized the spirit of the nation's cultural and political renaissance, including "Blowin' in the Wind," "The Times They Are A-Changin'," "Puff, the Magic Dragon," "Leaving on a Jet Plane," and more.

This program presents the Mayo Clinic’s five simple habits to help take off weight off and five habits to break to keep the weight off. It is taken from the first and only diet book published by the Mayo Clinic, and based on research conducted under the most rigorous standards by the most respected physicians, nutritionists and other medical experts in the world.