Feb 07, 2012 | WDC: 44.6 °F
WETA Television proudly celebrates Black History Month with a special lineup of nearly 20 television programs that highlight the rich culture and history of African Americans.
In Milos Forman’s Academy Award-winning 1975 film, adapted from a novel by Ken Kesey, mental patients rise up and follow social-misfit hero Randle P. McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) against an oppressive nurse (Louise Fletcher) and her rules. Forman, Nicholson and Fletcher each won Oscars.
The Spanish flu strikes Downton, disrupting one match, hastening another and transforming the fortunes of all. Mary, Sybil and Robert each confront a moment of truth. Anna and Bates know a moment of happiness.
The story of the 1961 Freedom Riders, civil-rights activists who confronted the Jim Crow laws that remained the status quo at interstate travel facilities in the South despite two Supreme Court rulings that declared them unconstitutional.
Valerie Simpson recalls the life of Nick Ashford, her husband, cowriter and singing partner. Together, they penned such classic songs as "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," "You're All I Need To Get By" and "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing."
Joan Collins guest stars in Miss Marple: They Do It With Mirrors, in which Marple investigates a murder that occurs during the rehearsal of an amateur show. Carrie Louise Serrocold: Penelope Wilton. Lewis Serrocold: Brian Cox.
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