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Masterpiece Atlantic Crossing
Hemingway This three-part, six-hour documentary film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick examines the visionary work and the turbulent life of Ernest Hemingway. Interweaving his biography — a life lived at the ultimately treacherous nexus of art, fame, and celebrity — with excerpts from his iconic short stories, novels, and non-fiction, the series reveals the brilliant, ambitious, charismatic, and complicated man behind the myth, and the art he created. TPT 2 Monday-Wednesday, April 5-7, 7 & 9 p.m.
A princess steals the heart of the president of the United States in an epic drama based on the World War II relationship of Franklin Roosevelt and Norwegian Crown Princess Martha. Kyle MacLachlan (“Twin Peaks”) stars as Roosevelt, opposite Sofia Helin (“The Bridge”) as the beautiful Martha, who flees the Nazis with her three young children and lives under Roosevelt’s protection. In eight parts. TPT 2 Sundays, starting April 4, 8 p.m. TPT LIFE Wednesdays, starting April 7, 8 p.m.
Philly D.A. In 2017, Larry Krasner, a civil rights attorney, mounted a longshot campaign and ultimately won the District Attorney’s seat in a city that has the highest incarceration rate of any large city in the United States. Filmed over three years, this eight-part series follows Krasner and his team as they transform the criminal justice system from the inside.
Frontline The Virus that Shook the World
Living the year of the pandemic, filmed around the world, from lockdowns to funerals to protests. Using extensive personal video and local footage, how people and countries responded to the virus, across cultures, race, faith and privilege. In two parts. TPT 2 Monday & Tuesday, April 26 & 27, 9 p.m.
TPT 2 Tuesdays, starting April 20, 8 p.m. TPT LIFE Saturdays, starting April 24, 9 p.m.
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