Here are home viewing suggestions for the week, selected from online advanced TV program listings and aligned with the state and national K-12 academic standards available online. Please consult local listings also, since actual broadcast times may vary. The Websites cited in the “Log on“ box below the TV listing provide further details about the show’s topic and may contain links to video clips from the show or a complete streaming video version of the show.
Thursday, October 4, 2012
7-8 p.m. E/P KLCS
Science and U.S. History
Elementary, Middle and High School
NATURE: The Wolf That Changed America
Airing on KLCS, this documentary tells the story of how the interaction between a wolf, Lobo, and naturalist Ernest Thompson Seton (1860-1946) helped lead to the national park system and the creation of the Boy Scouts of America.
Friday, October 5, 2012
8:15-9:15 p.m. ET, 5:!5-6:15 p.m. PT
TCM-Turner Classic Movie Channel
Government and U.S. History
Middle and High School
Night At The Movies: Hollywood Goes To The Movies
This documentary provide a look at the treatment of politics in cinema. It will explore how filmmakers have approached politics in their storytelling and examine films about political campaigns and political conspiracies, and the portrayal of American presidents in the movies. Filmmakers and performers have been interviewed for this special including Oliver Stone (JFK, Nixon, W.), Rob Reiner (The American President), Gary Ross (Dave), Rod Lurie (The Contender), Illeana Douglas, James Cromwell, Fred Thompson, producer Marc Frydman (The Contender), political consultant and commentator James Carville (The War Room), screenwriter Bob Gale (Back to the Future), author and film critic Julie Salamon (The Devil’s Candy), and “Projecting Hollywood” co-author Terry Christensen. TV-PG
Saturday, October 6, 2012
8-10 p.m. E/P
Discovery Channel
Science and Geography
Elementary,Middle and High School
This documentary comes from award winning filmmaker John Downer (Elephants: Spy in the Herd, Tiger: Spy in the Jungle, Polar Bears: Spy on the Ice), who transformed wildlife filmmaking by pioneering the use of spy cameras to capture nature’s most intimate moments. In This project, Downer developed a new team of spy cams to offer viewers a view of the world from an entirely different perspective. As these remarkable birds fly, they use the landscapes below them to navigate, search for food, roost and migrate. Spy cams allow viewers a moving three-dimensional view as they ride on the backs of spectacular eagles, cranes, pelicans, snow geese and countless other birds while they soar above some of the most awe-inspiring parts of America, Africa and Europe.
Sunday, October 7, 2012
8-9 p.m. E/P
CNN Government and Social Science
Middle and High School
Latino in America: Courting Their Vote
50,000 Latinos in the US turn 18 every month - a tremendous pool of voters that both parties know can help them win the next election. One small problem - Latinos in this country are increasingly unsatisfied with what they hear from both sides. This documentary follows the fight to win back this essential voting.
Monday, October 8, 2012
7-8 p.m. E/P
PBS
U.S. History and Arts
Middle and High School
As Long as I Remember: American Veteranos
Airing on KLCS, this documentary examines the personal toll and enduring legacy of the Vietnam War on three artists from south Texas: visual artist Juan Farias, author Michael Rodriguez and actor/poet Eduardo Garza. Through the personal histories and experiences of these Chicano veterans, the film examines the role art plays in the sorting of memories, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), activism and the current conflict in Iraq. It chronicles their upbringing in the Mexican-American community, their military service in Vietnam, and their lives after the war. Farias, Rodriguez and Garza’s poignant and powerful recollections illuminate the minority experience in the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps at a time when Mexican Americans accounted for approximately 20 percent of U.S. casualties in Vietnam, despite comprising only 10 percent of the country’s population.
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
7-8 p.m. E/P
PBS Science and Technology
Middle and High School
Airing on KLCS, this documentary covers a quest for the world’s strongest substances. Host David Pogue takes a look at what defines strength, examining everything from steel cables to mollusk shells to a toucan’s beak. Pogue travels from the deck of a U.S. naval aircraft carrier to a demolition derby to the country’s top research labs to check in with experts who are re-engineering what nature has given us to create the next generation of strong stuff.
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
8-9 p.m. E/P
Science Channel
Science
Middle and High School
What Happened Before the Big Bang?
This documentary dives into the strange world of loop quantum cosmology, multiverses and singularities. And we visit the room that NASA has created to model nothingness. It’s a simple question: the answer is beautiful and very strange. TV-G
Media Menu Courtesy of Richard Kahlenburg, TV Smarts
