Arts & Events : Movies & Film
KMOS-TV: Here's what's on public TV this week
Aug 20, 2008, 3:35 PM
PBS Convention Coverage: A NewsHour Special Report Democratic Convention
Monday, August 25-Thursday, August 28 at 7 p.m.- Simulcast in HD PBS' convention coverage, anchored by Jim Lehrer will include extended uninterrupted primetime coverage of podium activities and speeches; reporting from the floor of the convention; newsmaker interviews; political analysis and historical perspective.
More Great Features
NOVA - Storm That Drowned A City
Tuesday, August 19 at 7 p.m.
A minute-by minute account of the Hurrican Katrina disaster, exploring the human failures.
P.O.V. - The Judge and the General
Tuesday, August 19 at 9 p.m.
This film traces Chilean judge Juan Guzman's criminal cases against the country's ex-dictator, General Augusto Pinochet, whose 1973 coup left the democratically elected president, Salvador Allende, and thousands of others dead or "disappeared."
Also broadcast in HD Friday, August 22 at 11 a.m. and Sunday, August 24 at 12 p.m.
Illicit: The Dark Trade
Thursday, August 21 at 9 p.m.
The world economy is being derailed by new networks of illicit traders, criminal groups that care less about specific products and more about profit margins. Everything from fake purses and DVDs to counterfeit pharmaceuticals that can have a devastating impact on human beings, creating unimagined human suffering.
Mountain Stage HD - Del McCoury Band
Saturday, August 23 at 9 p.m.
Contemporary bluegrass music and southern fried tunes are performed by the tight, high-energy band.
HD Offerings
On Channel 6.1
American Horizons: The Photographs of Art Sinsabaugh,b/>
August 19 at 11:30 a.m. & August 23 at 1:30 p.m.
Art Sinsabaugh's Midwest landscapes, photographed between 1960 and 1963, were unprecedented in both subject matter and format. He used a gigantic 12x20 inch "banquet" camera to capture panoramic photographs of rural and suburban spaces in the Midwest United States.
Monday, August 25-Thursday, August 28 at 7 p.m.- Simulcast in HD PBS' convention coverage, anchored by Jim Lehrer will include extended uninterrupted primetime coverage of podium activities and speeches; reporting from the floor of the convention; newsmaker interviews; political analysis and historical perspective.
More Great Features
NOVA - Storm That Drowned A City
Tuesday, August 19 at 7 p.m.
A minute-by minute account of the Hurrican Katrina disaster, exploring the human failures.
P.O.V. - The Judge and the General
Tuesday, August 19 at 9 p.m.
This film traces Chilean judge Juan Guzman's criminal cases against the country's ex-dictator, General Augusto Pinochet, whose 1973 coup left the democratically elected president, Salvador Allende, and thousands of others dead or "disappeared."
Also broadcast in HD Friday, August 22 at 11 a.m. and Sunday, August 24 at 12 p.m.
Illicit: The Dark Trade
Thursday, August 21 at 9 p.m.
The world economy is being derailed by new networks of illicit traders, criminal groups that care less about specific products and more about profit margins. Everything from fake purses and DVDs to counterfeit pharmaceuticals that can have a devastating impact on human beings, creating unimagined human suffering.
Mountain Stage HD - Del McCoury Band
Saturday, August 23 at 9 p.m.
Contemporary bluegrass music and southern fried tunes are performed by the tight, high-energy band.
HD Offerings
On Channel 6.1
American Horizons: The Photographs of Art Sinsabaugh,b/>
August 19 at 11:30 a.m. & August 23 at 1:30 p.m.
Art Sinsabaugh's Midwest landscapes, photographed between 1960 and 1963, were unprecedented in both subject matter and format. He used a gigantic 12x20 inch "banquet" camera to capture panoramic photographs of rural and suburban spaces in the Midwest United States.
