Friday, April 2 at 10:00 p.m.
Frontline
The First Christians PT. 2/2
In the second program, FRONTLINE examines the period after the First Revolt, tracing the development and impact of the Gospels and looking at the increasingly hostile relationship between the Christians and the Jews. The film looks at another bloody Jewish war against Rome, the Second Revolt, assessing its impact on the Christianity movement. The broadcast documents the extraordinary events of the second and third centuries in which Christianity grew from a small Jewish sect to an official religion of the Roman Empire.

Sunday, April 4 at 8:00 p.m.
Nature
Moment of Impact PT. 1
Using the latest technologies, HD camera lenses and computer graphics, “Moment of Impact” takes the viewer inside the animal to present an innovative and revolutionary look at the bio-engineering of “how animals work.”

Monday, April 5 at 9:00 p.m.
The Mormons PT 1 & 2
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is one of America’s fastest-growing religions and, relative to its size, one of the richest. Church membership is 12 million people worldwide, a credit to late LDS President Gordon Hinckley, who died on January 27, 2008. This four-hour documentary brings together FRONTLINE and AMERICAN EXPERIENCE in a co-production that provides a searching portrait of this fascinating but often misunderstood religion.

Tuesday, April 6 at 8:00 p.m.
NOVA
Hunting the Edge of Space PT. 1
NOVA examines how a simple instrument, the telescope, has fundamentally changed our understanding of our place in the universe.

Tuesday, April 6 at 9:00 p.m.
The Mormons PT 3 & 4
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is one of America’s fastest-growing religions and, relative to its size, one of the richest. Church membership is 12 million people worldwide, a credit to late LDS President Gordon Hinckley, who died on January 27, 2008. This four-hour documentary brings together FRONTLINE and AMERICAN EXPERIENCE in a co-production that provides a searching portrait of this fascinating but often misunderstood religion.

Wednesday, April 7 at 8:00 p.m.
The Buddha
Two and a half millennia ago, a new religion was born in northern India, generated from the ideas of a single man, the Buddha, a mysterious Indian sage who famously gained enlightenment while he sat under a large, shapely fig tree. This documentary by award-winning filmmaker David Grubin tells the story of his life. Richard Gere narrates.

Wednesday, April 7 at 10:00 p.m.
Independent Lens
Unmistaken Child
A Tibetan disciple’s search for the reincarnation of his late master.

Sunday, April 11 at 8:00 p.m.
Nature
Moment of Impact PT. 2
Using the latest technologies, HD camera lenses and computer graphics, “Moment of Impact” takes the viewer inside the animal to present an innovative and revolutionary look at the bio-engineering of “how animals work.”

Sunday, April 11 at 9:00 p.m.
Masterpiece Classic
The Diary of Anne Frank
This adaptation of Anne Frank’s moving account of life hiding from the Nazis is the most accurate-ever and stars newcomer Ellie Kendrick (An Education) as a maturing teenager who undergoes an extraordinary ordeal.

Monday, April 12 at 10:00 p.m.
Among the Righteous: Lost Stories
From The Holocaust In Arab Lands
Did any Arabs save Jews during the Holocaust? Seeking a response to the plague of Holocaust denial in the Arab world, Robert Satloff, head of a respected Washington policy center, set off in the wake of 9/11 on what would become an eight-year journey to find an Arab hero whose story would change the way Arabs view Jews, themselves and their own history. Along the way, Satloff found not only the Arab heroes whom he sought, but a vast, lost history of what happened to the half-million Jews of the Arab lands of North Africa under Nazi, Vichy and Fascist rule. Robert MacNeil narrates.

Tuesday, April 13 at 8:00 p.m.
NOVA
Hunting the Edge of Space PT. 2
Three centuries of engineering have produced telescopes far beyond Galileo’s simple spyglass; these telescopes are revealing the solar system in detail Galileo could only dream of.

Tuesday, April 13 at 10:00 p.m.
FRONTLINE
Obama’s Deal
FRONTLINE goes behind closed doors at the White House, in Congress and the boardrooms of the giant healthcare lobby to examine the political battles and costly compromises that defined the Obama administration’s efforts toward healthcare reform.

Tuesday, April 13 at 11:00 p.m.
Independent Lens
Blessed Is The Match
Documentary feature about Hannah Senesh, the World War II-era poet and diarist who became a paratrooper and resistance fighter and was captured, tortured and ultimately executed by the Nazis. Joan Allen narrates.

Wednesday, April 14 at 8:00 p.m.
When Families Grieve
Katie Couric and the Sesame Street Muppets help families cope with the death of a parent, presenting strategies that are child-appropriate and useful for the whole family.

Wednesday, April 14 at 9:00 p.m.
Worse Than War
Based on Daniel Goldhagen’s book of the same title, this is an exploration of the nature of genocide, ethnic cleansing and large-scale mass murder in our time. Goldhagen speaks with victims, perpetrators, witnesses, religious leaders, politicians, diplomats, historians, humanitarian aid workers and journalists.

Monday, April 19 at 9:00 p.m.
American Experience
Earth Days
Director Robert Stone traces the origins of the modern environmental movement through the eyes of nine Americans who propelled the movement from its beginnings in the 1950s.

Tuesday, April 20 at 10:00 p.m.
Frontline
The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan
In Afghanistan today, in the midst of war and endemic poverty, many hundreds of boys, often as young as ten, are being lured off the streets on the promise of a new life, many unaware that their real fate is to be used for entertainment and sex.

Tuesday, April 20 at 11:00 p.m.
Independent Lens
Dirt!
Traveling around the world, “DIRT! The Movie” delves into the fascinating history of this lowly substance and shows how its mistreatment can result in natural disasters. Jamie Lee Curtis narrates.

Wednesday, April 21 at 8:00 p.m.
Through a Dog’s Eyes
Each year, hundreds of people find hope through a handful of organizations across the country that train assistance dogs for people with disabilities. THROUGH A DOG’S EYES follows the journey of recipients as they go through the heartwarming and sometimes difficult process of receiving and becoming acclimated to a dog. Neil Patrick Harris narrates.

Wednesday, April 21 at 9:00 p.m.
POV
Food, Inc.
As recounted in this sweeping, shockingly informative documentary, sick animals, environmental degradation, tainted and unhealthy food and obesity, diabetes and other health issues are only the more obvious problems with a highly mechanized and centralized system, like America’s, that touts efficiency as the supreme value in food production.

Saturday, April 24 at 7:00 p.m.
After You’ve Gone (New BBC Britcom)
This is a British comedy series that focuses on the father of two kids, Molly and Alex. When their mother decides to travel to Africa for an eight-week nursing aid mission, their father, Jimmy has to take on far more responsibility in the parenting department.

Monday, April 26 at 9:00 p.m.
American Experience
My Lai
What drove a company of American soldiers — ordinary young men deployed to liberate a small foreign nation from an oppressive neighbor — to murder more than 300 unarmed Vietnamese civilians? Were they “just following orders,” as some later declared? Or, as others argued, did they break under the pressure of a misguided military strategy that measured victory by body count?

Tuesday, April 27 at 9:00 p.m.
400 Years of the Telescope
This visually stunning program chronicles a sweeping journey, from 1609, when Galileo revealed mankind’s place in the galaxy, to today’s thrilling quests to discover new worlds in the universe. Narrated by NOVA’s Neil deGrasse Tyson, the compelling program takes viewers on an adventure through the heavens and around the globe, visiting the world’s leading astronomers, cosmologists and observatories.

Tuesday, April 27 at 10:00 p.m.
Frontline
The Vaccine War
FRONTLINE looks at the vaccine war, in which scientific medicine and the public health establishment are battling a coalition of parents, celebrities, politicians and activists over whether vaccines are a great achievement or a scourge on health.

Tuesday, April 27 at 11:00 p.m.
Independent Lens
Garbage Dreams
Follows three teenage boys born into the trash trade and growing up in the world’s largest garbage village outside Cairo.

Wednesday, April 28 at 8:00 p.m.
Great Performances
“Hamlet”
Classical stage and screen actors Sir Patrick Stewart and David Tennant, reprise their roles in this television adaptation of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2008 stage production of Hamlet.