TV Extra Credit (Feb 1-7)

February 1, 2009

Sunday, Today–Feb. 1
7:00-8:00 pm, PBS 28, 24 Comcast, 8 Wow, Globe Trekker, “Kenya and Niger”
6:00-9:00 pm, Disc. 25 or 42 Comcast, 48 Wow, “Jesus:  The Complete Story,”  3 Extra Credits, 3 pts.
8:00-10:00 pm, Hist. Ch., 32 (or 43, 53) Comcast, 47 Wow, “God vs. Satan–Religious points of view
about Armageddon.

Mon. Feb. 2
8:00-midnight, BET (62,51, or 59 Comcast) 58 Wow, 1992 Film, “Malcolm X

Tues. Feb. 3
8:00-9:00 pm, PBS 56, Comcast 6, Wow 3, Nova, “The Spy Factory”
9:00-10:00 pm, PBS 28, 24 Comcast, 8 Wow, Nova, “The Spy Factory”
6:00-7:00 pm, Hist. Ch. 43, 53, 32 Comcast, Wow 47, Ancient Discoveries, “Seige of Troy”

Fri. Feb. 6
9:00-11:00 pm, Life, 62,61 or52 Comcast, 27 Wow, 2002 film, “The Rosa Parks Story
Welcome to Cold War Context:
2 Films on TCM, Ch. 66 comcast, 41 Wow, 1950 film, Seven Days to Noon–(nuclear warhead) 8:00-9:30 pm
AND, 9:45-11:30 pm, “Dr. Strangelove or:  How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb”

Sat. Feb. 7
2 POV on Cleopatra–early Sat. films
5:30 am-7:30 am, 1946 film, “Caesar and Cleopatra“  TCM Ch. 66 comcast, 41 Wow
7:45 am-noon, 1963 film, “Cleopatra” starring Elizabeth Taylor
12:45 pm-4:00 pm, AMC, 46, 34, or 27 Comcast, 36 Wow, 1970 film, “Tora, Tora, Tora,”  Japanese 1941
attack on Pearl Harbor from Japanese and American points of view
4:00-8:00 pm, TCM, Ch. 66 com, 41 Wow, 1962 film, “Lawrence of Arabia,” Col. Lawrence of British army
allies Bedhouin Arabs against Turks in WW I Arabia–lot’s of sand, have beverages to hydrate…and of
course this whole film is setting stage for collapse of Ottoman Empire after 1918….
9:00-11:00 pm, PBS 28, 24 Com, 8 Wow, “Unforgivable Blackness:   The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
No white guy could beat this black Heavyweight Boxing champion, but the white power structure
did knock him out…..early 20th century American history.