HIGHLIGHTS MARCH 27-31
MINNESOTA EXPERIENCE Citizen
AMERICAN MASTERS Roberta Flack Discover music icon Roberta Flack’s rise to stardom and triumphs over racism and sexism. Detailing her story in her own words, the film features exclusive access to Flack’s archives and interviews with Rev. Jesse Jackson, Peabo Bryson, and more. TPT 2 Friday, March 31, 9 p.m.
Explore the multi-generational march of Minnesota women and all they hoped would come with the vote. From pioneering activists like Sarah Burger Stearns to Progressive Era leaders like Nellie Griswold Francis, the vote was seen as a mark of fuller citizenship and tool of change for concerns like healthcare, children, and women's rights. A Twin Cities PBS original production. TPT 2 Monday, March 27, 8 p.m. | TPT LIFE Thursday, March 30, 9 p.m.
FINDING YOUR ROOTS Anchormen
Henry Louis Gates introduces trail blazing journalists Jim Acosta and Van Jones to the ancestors who blazed a trail for them, meeting runaway slaves and immigrant settlers who took enormous chances so that their descendants might thrive. TPT 2 Tuesday, March 28, 7 p.m.
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE The Movement And The Madman
This film explores how two antiwar protests in the fall of 1969 — the largest the country had ever seen — caused President Nixon to cancel what he called his “madman” plans for a massive escalation of the U.S. war in Vietnam, including his threats to use nuclear weapons. TPT 2 Tuesday, March 28, 8 p.m.
AMERICAN MASTERS Mae West: Dirty Blonde Dive into the life and career of groundbreaking writer, performer, and subversive star Mae West. Over a career spanning eight decades, she broke boundaries and possessed creative and economic powers unheard of for a female entertainer in the 1930s. TPT 2 Friday, March 31, 10:30 p.m.
Agatha Christie's: Poirot The Tragedy At Marsdon Manor
A would-be thriller writer hopes Poirot will solve a fictional murder, but when a real killing takes place at the local manor house, Poirot finds himself drawn into the world of the supernatural. TPT 2 Thursday, March 30, 7 p.m.
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