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Friday

Anatomy ’59: The Making of a Classic Motion Picture
Documentary details the story behind the 1959 Marquette County, Michigan on-location filming of Otto Preminger’s classic courtroom drama, Anatomy of a Murder. Preminger’s filim was based on a 1958 bestselling book by Ispheming, Michigan native John Voelker, a local attorney who used the pen name Robert Traver. Traver’s fictionalized narrative examined the true-life story of an alleged rape, killing and subsequent jury trial that occurred in Marquette County in 1952. In this new documentary, surviving cast members share their memories about the filming, and new research uncovers little-known facts about the film and the original court trial. Produced by John Pepin and presented by WNMU-TV.
Friday, July 3 at Noon ET

Cinema XIII Classics
“Sherlock Holmes Terror by Night”
(1946) Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce) are in pursuit of a famous stolen diamond aboard the train from London to Edinburgh.
Friday, July 3 at 1:30 pm ET

NOW on PBS
While they’re putting the finishing touches on the controversial fence along the southern border between the U.S. and Mexico, the outrage is far from over. The multi-billion dollar plan to build some 700 miles of fencing has been billed as the way to stem the flow of undocumented immigrants and provide security from potential terrorism. NOW senior correspondent Maria Hinojosa travels to Texas to meet border families who fear losing their property, their safety, and their way of life. Many question if the fence can keep people from sneaking in at all. An even greater worry may be the virtual fence the Obama administration is planning for the remaining 1,300 miles of border, at an estimated cost of nearly $7 billion. The problem? The new technology to complete the virtual fence has not been proven to work in the field.
Fridays at 8:30 pm ET
Repeats Sundays at 11:30 am ET

Bill Moyers Journal
This week, Bill Moyers Journal gets insight from three leading public thinkers who taught a unique course – “Christianity and the U.S. Crisis” - at Union Theological Seminary, the oldest nondenominational seminary in the country. Renowned scholars Cornel West, Serene Jones, and Gary Dorrien offer a fresh take what our religious traditions and our core ethics and values as a nation say about America’s politics, policy, and the challenges of balancing capitalism and democracy. “This is a society that has stoked and celebrated greed virtually to the point of self-destruction. We can’t just go on saying, ‘Well if we can just patch this thing up and get back to where we were, things will be all right.’ And none of us believe that, so we also have to talk about what was wrong with the system to begin with that had outcomes that you can’t really justify morally,” says Dorrien.
Fridays at 9 pm ET

Saturday

Media Meet
“Non-Profits & Volunteers”
There are 2,300 registered nonprofits in the U.P. with $1.27 billion in assets, according to the National Center for Charitable Statistics. Find out how much of a force nonprofits are in Washington and Lansing, and how local communities can tap into their benefits. (Repeat)
Saturday, July 4 at 6:30 pm ET
Repeats 7/5 at 1:30 pm ET

A Capitol Fourth
Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning actor Jimmy Smits returns to host the biggest and brightest birthday party in the country, featuring, for the first time ever, Barry Manilow, who will both open and close the broadcast with a stirring medley of hits and patriotic classics along with the National Symphony Orchestra and the Choral Arts Society of Washington. Joining him are the “Queen of Soul,” Aretha Franklin; international pop sensation Natasha Bedingfield; the Tony and Grammy Award-winning cast of Jersey Boys ; multi-Grammy Award nominee Michael Feinstein; and acclaimed classical pianist Andrew von Oeyen. As a special treat for the entire family, Elmo, Big Bird, Coookie Monster, Oscar the Grouch and more of the Sesame Street gang will be on hand to celebrate America’s 233rd birthday. The Muppets will perform a medley of patriotic favorites, as well as iconic songs that everyone knows and loves from 40 years of the breakthrough children’s television series.
Saturday, July 4 at 8 pm ET

The Big Squeeze
This program takes a joyful leap into the heart of Texas music. And where there’s music there’s usually some grilling going on. That’s why Herminio Ramirez builds a stage right in the tiny kitchen of their Houston home for his son John. From the urban barrios of Houston to the colonias along the U.S.-Mexican border, legacies fueled by the passion-stirring combination of family, friends and food, are being passed along. In The Big Squeeze, we follow 16-year-old John Ramirez and other young musicians as they do battle at the statewide accordion throw down.
Saturday, July 4 at 10:30 pm ET

Sunday

Nature
“The Vanishing Lions”
As the largest predator in Africa, the lion should have nothing to fear. But the king of the savannah is facing an uncertain future. While concentrating on the dwindling number of elephants and rhinos, nobody suspected the biggest of big cats was in trouble. When the number of lions turned out to be less than 30,000, not 100,000 as previously estimated, it was clear that the great lion had become vulnerable. Lion experts, farmers and Masai herdsmen explore solutions to the problems of saving lions and living with them.
Sunday, July 5 at 8 pm ET
Repeats 7/9 at Noon ET

Masterpiece Mystery!
“Miss Marple:
A Pocket Full of Rye”
Acclaimed British actress Julia McKenzie (“Cranford”) takes over the iconic role of spinster sleuth Miss Marple in four new episodes of the fourth season of the popular “Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple” series. This week: A string of murders is committed by a killer who seems obsessed with the nursery rhyme “Sing a Song of Sixpence.” Even Miss Marple’s former housekeeper falls victim.
Sundays at 9 pm ET, begins July 5
Repeats 7/6 at 1 pm ET

Legends & Lyrics
“Susan Tedeschi, Kip Winger, James Slater”
This episode highlights the blended genres of blues and pop. Susan Tedeschi performs “Friar’s Point,” You Need to Be With Me,” “Truth” and “I Fell in Love.” Kip Winger performs “Headed for a Heartbreak,” “Blue Suede Shoes” and “Seventeen.” James Slater performs “That’s Why God Made Mexico,” A Man Who Can Dance” and “In My Daughter’s Eyes.”
Sunday, July 5 at Midnight ET

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