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Maine Watch with Jennifer Rooks recaps the 2009 election with analysis from Sandy Maisel of Colby College, Ron Schmidt of USM and A.J. Higgins of MPBN.
This week's MPBN Community Films piece is about the challenges of displaying the art of one of America’s greatest contemporary artists, Robert Indiana.
Rock legend John Fogerty stars in the Emmy Award-winning live music series, Live By Request. Fogerty performs music requested by the show’s viewers.
Nature examines Africa’s deadliest snake, the black mamba. Untreated, its bite has a fatality rate of 100 percent, making it a killer among killers on a continent where it is thought that nearly 20,000 people die of snake bites each year.
Masterpiece Contemporary returns to the 1963 disappearance of a 13-year-old girl who vanished without a trace. In the conclusion, Catherine suspects that Bennett fabricated evidence.
Antiques Roadshow host Mark L. Walberg travels to a historic Civil War battle site. He’s joined by appraiser Rafael Eledge, who displays some valuable Confederate belt buckles and instructs collectors how to avoid falling for a fake.
American Experience explores one of the world’s greatest feats of engineering. Rising 726 feet above the raging waters of the Colorado River, Hoover Dam became a symbol of hope during the Great Depression.
NOVA continues a comprehensive three-part, three-hour special — investigating explosive new discoveries that are transforming the picture of how we became human.
FRONTLINE journalist T.R. Reid travels around the U.S. examining the nation’s broken health care system and exploring the prospects of a fundamental overhaul.
Secrets of the Dead investigates the extraordinary survival story of a crew of airmen shot down over the jungles of Japanese-occupied Borneo during World War II.
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