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Pioneer Celebrates 45 Years
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 We're proud to be celebrating a 45-year legacy. Click on the image above to find out more.
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GREAT PERFORMANCES: Placido Domingo Friday, September 23 at 9:00 p.m.
Placido Domingo, one of the most popular and celebrated tenors of his generation, looks back and reflects on his favorite roles in opera houses around the world.
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NATURE: Hummingbirds: Magic in the Air
Sunday, September 25 at 8:00 p.m.
High-definition, high-speed footage of hummingbirds in the wild helps viewers to understand the world of hummingbirds as never before.
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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Seabiscuit Monday, September 26 at 9:00 p.m.
 This film about Seabiscuit's unlikely career illuminates the precarious economic conditions that defined America in the 1930s and explores the behind-the-scenes world of thoroughbred racing.
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POV: Last Train Home
Tuesday, September 27 at 9:00 p.m.
 This award-winning film travels with a Chinese couple, part of the 130-million migrant workers who journey to their home villages every spring for the New Year. READ MORE... |
NOVA: Surviving the Tsunami
Wednesday, September 28 at 9:00 p.m.
 Watch amateur and professional video of the tsunami that struck Japan as survivors tell the stories of their life-saving decisions. READ MORE... |
TRAVELSCOPE: The Colors of Malaysia Saturday, September 24 at 7:00 p.m.
 Travelscope experiences multicultural, multi-religious Malaysia when Joseph takes part in the "Colors of Malaysia Festival." The national celebration spotlights the different states and people of Malaysia through music, song, dance and costumes.
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AVEC ERIC: Dinner Social Saturday, September 24 at 7:30 p.m.
 Eric is invited to visit Ratna Ling, a Buddhist meditation center on the northern coast of California. He reciprocates by cooking a farm fresh vegetarian luncheon for the center's volunteer workers. At Le Bernardin different members of his kitchen team cook "family meal" for all of their colleagues.
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LIVING WITH A HOLE IN YOUR POCKET Monday, September 26 at 4:00 p.m. |
Prohibition is a three-part, five-and-a-half-hour documentary film series directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick that tells the story of the rise, rule and fall of the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the entire era it encompassed. The culmination of nearly a century of activism, prohibition was intended to improve, even to ennoble, the lives of all Americans and to protect individuals, families and society at large from the devastating effects of alcohol abuse. But the enshrining of a faith-driven moral code in the Constitution paradoxically caused millions of Americans to rethink their definition of morality. Thugs became celebrities and responsible authority was rendered impotent.
Volstead Fever: Prohibition in Minnesota
Coming October 2
Pioneer Public Television will also air a companion documentary highlighting prohibition in Minnesota and Andrew Volstead Sunday October 2 at 6:30 p.m. Volstead Fever highlights Representative Andrew Volstead of Granite Falls, who was the Congressional author of prohibition; the impact prohibition had on the historic Schell's Brewery of New Ulm, Minnesota, and Ghent, a small local town that was the first in Minnesota to serve alcohol when prohibition ended.
For more information on Prohibition or Volstead Fever: Prohibition in Minnesota, go to www.pioneer.org/prohibition.
Prohibition Screenings
Pioneer Public Television will feature a Prohibition screening open to the public. Make plans to attend the screening today.
Civil Discourse Panel Discussion and Prohibition Screening
Bootleggers, Granite Falls
September 28 at 7 p.m.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
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