WETA /SYMS Sponsored Film Schedule
Sunday, March 2, 10:00pm – 12 midnight.
American Masters : Pete Seeger – The Power of Song
The first authorized film documents the 90-year-old folk musician’s unique story. The man who introduced America to its own folk heritage, Seeger deeply believes in the power of song and is convinced that individuals can make a difference and that music can be a force for social change – but his convictions earned him a powerful enemy: the U.S. government. Musicians ranging from Bob Dylan to the Dixie Chicks – and a remarkable historical archive – tell his story.
Thursday, March 6, 8:00pm – 9:30pm.
A Yiddish World Remembered
The story of Jewish life in the shtetls of Eastern Europe is told by some of the last remaining eyewitnesses – the great-grandmothers and grandfathers from the devastated Yiddish world – whose numbers dwindle every day. Through their words, the cities and shtetls of Eastern Europe come alive again, accompanied by archival films, vintage photographs and traditional klezmer and cantorial music.
Thursday, March 13, 8:00pm – 11:00pm (repeats Sunday, March 16 at 6pm).
The Jewish Americans
A film directed by David Grubin and co-produced by WETA examines Jewish Americans’ history in the United States. Beginning in the 1700’s, Jewish immigrants came to America, struggling to hold onto their faith and culture and facing anti-Semitism even as they became American and participated in building the new nation. Waves of immigration brought German Jews to America – and later, eastern European Jews, who gravitated to the Lower East Side of Manhattan and struggled to adapt while developing their own unique cultural institutions.
Sunday, March 23, 11:00am – 1:00pm.
The WETA Movie : Moulin Rouge
Jose Ferrer’s performance, coupled with John Huston’s Academy Award-nominated direction of this 1952 film, brings the story of troubled 19th-century artist, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, passionately to life.
Sunday, March 23, 1:00pm – 3:00pm.
The WETA Movie : The Magnificent Seven
John Sturges’ 1960 western stars Yul Brynner and Robert Vaughn and launched the careers of Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson and James Coburn – all portraying gunmen that help Mexican peasants battle marauding bandits.
Saturday, March 29, 9:00pm – 10:55pm (repeats Sunday, March 30 at 11am).
The WETA Movie : One, Two, Three
In Billy Wilder’s 1961 comedy of international hijinks, James Cagney portrays a high-powered cola executive who turns West Berlin upside down in search of his boss’s hare-brained daughter.
Saturday, March 29, 10:55pm – 1:00am (repeats Sunday, March 30 at 12:50pm).
The WETA Movie : On The Beach
The 1959 Cold War film directed by Stanley Kramer deals with the after-effects of a nuclear war. When a nuclear holocaust exterminates virtually all life on earth, a submarine, commanded by Dwight Towers (Gregory Peck) is sent from Australia to San Diego to investigate faint radio signals.
Monday, March 31, 9:00pm – 10:00pm
American Experience : Minik, the Lost Eskimo
In October 1897, renowned Arctic explorer Robert Peary returned to New York from his latest Greenland expedition, bringing with him five polar Eskimos. Four died within months, leaving a seven-year-old boy named Minik to fend for himself in a foreign land.
Television schedules sometimes change at the last moment. For up-to-date program information call 703-998-2724.
