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Antiques Roadshow

Antiques Roadshow: Milwaukee, WI

Antiques Roadshow concludes in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where appraisers find a Persian rug the owner used to cover furniture in the rain; a stained glass figurine originally commissioned for the owner of horse racing legend Dan Patch; and two milestone game baseballs autographed by Milwaukee Braves legend Warren Spahn.

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Veteran journalist Bill Moyers returns to PBS with a weekly public affairs series that airs under the name of his first important series on public television 35 years ago. Re-inventing the broadcasts for the 21st century, the series features interviews and news analysis of underreported stories across an array of beats, including the environment, media, politics, the economy, arts and culture, and social issues.

Bill Moyers Journal

Bill Moyers' public affairs series presents insightful interviews and news analysis of under-reported stories across an array of beats, including: the environment, media, politics, the economy, arts and culture, and social issues.

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Portrait of Archduchess Marie-Antoinette, 1767-68, by Martin van Meytens the Younger, Schonbrunn, Vienna.

Marie Antoinette

This production by acclaimed filmmaker David Grubin offers a portrait of the French sovereign who helped unleash the forces of the French Revolution, following her journey from the palaces of the mighty Austro-Hungarian Empire to her final hours in a squalid prison cell.

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Elizabeth George’s incomparable New Scotland Yard team of Inspectors Lynley (Nathaniel Parker) and Havers (Sharon Small) returns for the last time to tackle two new cases. Shown: Sharon Small (left) as Sargeant Barbara Havers and Nathaniel Parker (right) as Inspector Thomas Lynley.

Masterpiece Mystery!: The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Series VII

In Series VII, Scotland Yard sleuths Thomas Lynley (Nathaniel Parker) and his working-class sidekick, Barbara Havers (Sharon Small) collaborate on two final cases, reprised on WETA TV 26 this month. In Limbo, six months have passed since the death of Lynley's wife, Helen. Havers is concerned that her partner is drowning in his sorrows, and Lynley is unexpectedly drawn back in to the 15-year-old unsolved abduction of his godson.

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Masterpiece Special: The Unseen Alistair Cooke profiles the famous broadcaster and former Masterpiece Theatre series host.

Masterpiece Special: The Unseen Alistair Cooke

Marking the November centenary of the birth of longtime Masterpiece Theatre host Alistair Cooke, this film presents a revealing portrait of one of the most celebrated broadcasters of the 20th century.

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Monarchy: The Royal Family at Work: With exclusive access granted to the series’ filmmakers by Queen Elizabeth II, this six-hour series follows Her Majesty, her family and their extensive support staff as the royals work and live at Buckingham Palace, perform official visits at home and abroad, and meet with people from all walks of life in the performance of their royal duties. Pictured: Queen Elizabeth II and President George W. Bush attend a white-tie state dinner given in honor of Her Majesty’s visit to Washington, DC.

Monarchy: The Royal Family at Work

Part 3 of 3. The Queen and Us/Inside the Firm. This film follows the experience of four guests as they savor a once-in-a-lifetime occasion: a Garden Party at Buckingham Palace. At the party, a select few guests will be presented to the queen, and attendants offer a crash course in protocol. Less formal occasions also pack the schedule of the queen and her family. In the second hour, the queen's children talk frankly about the roles they were born into and the challenges of royal life — handling 4,000 state visits, balls, school dedications, nursing home visits and charity events each year.

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The encounter between one man and one wolf led to the establishment of the national park system and the Boy Scout movement.

Nature: The Wolf That Changed America

The encounter between and adventurous young man and a marauding wolf in the fall of 1893 in the wilds of New Mexico led to the establishment of the national park system and the Boy Scout movement after Ernest Thompson Seton recognized the crisis of the vanishing wilderness in his meeting with the renegade animal.

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NOVA: Ocean Animal Emergency: San Francisco veterinarian Dr. Frances Gulland is committed to saving sick marine mammals, but she’s also desperately trying to figure out what’s killing them.

NOVA: Ocean Animal Emergency

The world's oceans are in trouble. Warming seas and man-made pollutants are combining to unleash toxic algae blooms that are decimating whales, sea lions and other marine mammals. NOVA explores this crisis through the exploits of Dr. Frances Gulland, a San Francisco veterinarian who runs the equivalent of a West Coast ER for marine mammals.

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Regency House Party presents a reality program in which participants take up residence at a country estate to grapple with the social mores of another era as they adopt the protocols of early 1800's Regency England high society.

Regency House Party

Ten modern-day men and women take up residence in a country estate for a house party that simulates the high society and strict social protocols of early 1800's Regency England. Part 3 of 4. A woman of means arrives to "compete" for the men's attentions, the men train for a boxing competition, and the ladies' chaperones teach their charges about the birds and the bees — according to Regency-era protocol.

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Jeremy Brett and Edward Hardwicke star as the great sleuth and his partner in crime fighting, Dr. Watson. Episode 1 of 11. The Empty House. With Holmes' return to Baker Street, talk turns to archenemy Moriarty and his demise at the Reichenbach Falls, where the great detective narrowly escaped his presumed death.

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The Jewish Americans: A film directed by David Grubin and co-produced by WETA examines 350 years of Jewish American history. Pictured: A Hassidic Jew (center), with fellow commuters on a New York subway car.

The Jewish Americans

Part 3 of 3. Home. American Jews despair the murders of six million European Jews, but slowly a new spirit of optimism emerges with the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine and the easing of discrimination against Jewish Americans in daily life. Jews enter white-collar professions in record numbers, and Jewish American culture goes mainstream via television. In the 1960s and 1970s, Jewish Americans work for civil rights and aid Soviet Jews seeking basic human and religious rights. Jewish Americans continue to weave themselves into the fabric of the nation, while continuing to negotiate their Jewish and American identities.

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The Rape of Europa follows the story of the rescue of European art treasures stolen by the Nazis during World War II. Pictured: Captain James Rorimer (second from left), who later became the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, supervises the safeguarding of stolen art in southern Bavaria.

The Rape of Europa

This film explores how Europe's art treasures survived the systematic theft and deliberate destruction perpetrated by Germany's Third Reich during World War II. For 12 years, the Nazis looted and destroyed art on a scale unprecedented in history, but heroic young art historians and curators from America and Europe fought to rescue and return millions of lost, hidden and stolen treasures. Joan Allen narrates.

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The WETA Movie

The WETA Movie: A Shot in the Dark

This 1964 film, a sequel to The Pink Panther, stars Peter Sellers and Elke Sommer. Inspector Clouseau tries to prove a beautiful parlor maid is innocent of killing her chauffeur lover.

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The WETA Movie

The WETA Movie: The Russians are Coming! The Russians are Coming!

Alan Arkin and Jonathan Winters lead an all-star cast (Carl Reiner, Eva Marie Saint, Brian Keith, Theodore Bikel) in the outrageous 1966 Cold War comedy about a Russian submarine that runs aground off the New England coast, leading the local residents of a small community to mobilize.

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Gwen Ifill

Washington Week with Gwen Ifill and National Journal

Hosted by Gwen Ifill, PBS's longest-running public affairs series features Washington's top journalists analyzing the week's news stories and their effect on the lives of all Americans.

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