Schedule

Morning

6:00AM

Teleshopping

8:00AM

Treasures Decoded: Tut’s Last Mission

Experts examine a theory that treasures from Tutankhamun's tomb were meant to prepare him for an epic afterlife battle. Part 1 of 6.
9:15AM

Sicily: the Conquered Isle: Borderlands

Borderlands examines the island’s role on the frontlines of a clash of civilisations during the Spanish era, when its glorious baroque buildings were also created. Then Sicily’s role in the unification of Italy led to the coming of the mafia. Part 2 of 2.
10:35AM

The War: A Volunteer Basis

June 1944 to August 1944. American and British troops in Normandy are bogged down in the hedgerows, while in the Pacific, the marines fight their costliest battle to date on the island of Saipan. Back home, dreaded telegrams from the War Department begin arriving at a rate inconceivable just one year earlier. But by mid-August, the Germans are in full retreat out of France, and on 25 August, after four years of Nazi occupation, Paris is liberated. A series by Ken Burns. Part 8 of 14.
11:40AM

Sicily: the Conquered Isle: Borderlands

Borderlands examines the island’s role on the frontlines of a clash of civilisations during the Spanish era, when its glorious baroque buildings were also created. Then Sicily’s role in the unification of Italy led to the coming of the mafia. Part 2 of 2.

Afternoon

1:00PM

The War: A Volunteer Basis

June 1944 to August 1944. American and British troops in Normandy are bogged down in the hedgerows, while in the Pacific, the marines fight their costliest battle to date on the island of Saipan. Back home, dreaded telegrams from the War Department begin arriving at a rate inconceivable just one year earlier. But by mid-August, the Germans are in full retreat out of France, and on 25 August, after four years of Nazi occupation, Paris is liberated. A series by Ken Burns. Part 8 of 14.
2:05PM

The American Buffalo: a Film By Ken Burns: Into the Storm

By the late 1880s, the buffalo that once numbered in the tens of millions have been reduced to fewer than 1,000. But a diverse and unlikely collection of Americans start a movement that rescues the national mammal from disappearing forever. Part 2 of 2.
4:50PM

Sicily: the Conquered Isle: Borderlands

Borderlands examines the island’s role on the frontlines of a clash of civilisations during the Spanish era, when its glorious baroque buildings were also created. Then Sicily’s role in the unification of Italy led to the coming of the mafia. Part 2 of 2.

Evening

6:05PM

Treasures Decoded: Tut’s Last Mission

Experts examine a theory that treasures from Tutankhamun's tomb were meant to prepare him for an epic afterlife battle. Part 1 of 6.
7:10PM

Sicily: the Conquered Isle: Borderlands

Borderlands examines the island’s role on the frontlines of a clash of civilisations during the Spanish era, when its glorious baroque buildings were also created. Then Sicily’s role in the unification of Italy led to the coming of the mafia. Part 2 of 2.
8:25PM

The War: A Volunteer Basis

June 1944 to August 1944. American and British troops in Normandy are bogged down in the hedgerows, while in the Pacific, the marines fight their costliest battle to date on the island of Saipan. Back home, dreaded telegrams from the War Department begin arriving at a rate inconceivable just one year earlier. But by mid-August, the Germans are in full retreat out of France, and on 25 August, after four years of Nazi occupation, Paris is liberated. A series by Ken Burns. Part 8 of 14.
9:30PM

The American Buffalo: a Film By Ken Burns: Into the Storm

By the late 1880s, the buffalo that once numbered in the tens of millions have been reduced to fewer than 1,000. But a diverse and unlikely collection of Americans start a movement that rescues the national mammal from disappearing forever. Part 2 of 2.

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