Sunday, September 2 at 8:00 p.m.
Royal Memories - Prince Charles' Tribute to the Queen
Prince Charles shares memories and recalls events from Queen Elizabeth’s public and private life, adding his own commentary and insights.

Tuesday - Thursday, September 4-6
at 9:00 p.m.
PBS NewsHour
National Convention Coverage
Award-winning political journalists Judy Woodruff and Gwen Ifill will co-anchor gavel-to-gavel broadcast coverage from the PBS Skybox at the Democratic National Convention.

Friday, September 7 at 9:00 p.m.
Great Performances
Paul McCartney - Live Kisses
Paul McCartney puts down his famous bass guitar and teams up with the likes of Diana Krall and Joe Walsh to sing pop standards made famous during the pre-Beatle era.

Friday, September 7 at 10:00 p.m.
How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin
The program tells the extraordinary and untold story of how the Beatles punctured the Iron Curtain. In a personal journey through Russia by award-winning director Leslie Woodhead, he tells in first-person accounts the story of a secret revolution which contributed to the fall of communism.

Sunday, September 9 at 8:00 p.m.
Broadway or Bust
Watch out, AMERICAN IDOL! America’s top high school musical performers, participate in the ultimate competition to find the nation’s best young theater stars.

Sunday, September 9 at 9:00 p.m.
Masterpiece Mystery!
Wallander - An Event in Autumn
A pregnant woman leaps to her death from the side of a ferry. Or was she pushed? The routine case barely disturbs Wallander’s newly blissful life with Vanja (Saskia Reeves, “Page Eight”).

Tuesday, September 11 at 9:30
& 11:00 p.m.
Rain
The 90-minute special that features songs made famous by the iconic British rock group performed live on stage. The exclusive broadcast will also feature interviews with Rain band members. Check local listings for more airdates.

Wednesday, September 12 at
8:00 p.m.
Andre Rieu
Radio City Music Hall Live in
New York
Andre performs at Radio City Music Hall and is joined by the Harlem Gospel Choir, along with the Strauss Orchestra, and Andre's choir of special voices. Check local listings for more airdates.

Thursday, September 14 at 8:00 p.m.
Great Performances
Andrea Bocelli Live in Central Park
Touted as a gift to the great metropolis of New York, Bocelli, along with the NY Philharmonic, serenaded thousands in Central Park for this PBS Arts special. Check local listings for more airdates.

Sunday, September 16 at 1:00 p.m.
Great Performances at the Met
Wagner's Dream
The documentary chronicles the backstage story of the creation of this ambitious new staging of the cycle. This is the third time a complete Ring cycle has aired on PBS.

Sunday, September 16 at 3:00 p.m.
Great Performances at the Met
Wagner's Ring Cycle - Das Rheingold
In the first opera in the Ring cycle, the gods of Valhalla clash with underworld dwarves and brawny giants, with disastrous consequences.

Sunday, September 16 at 9:00 p.m.
Masterpiece Mystery!
Wallander - The Dogs of Riga
Wallander goes to Riga and becomes embroiled in a desperate search for files that may document high-level corruption in Latvia that threatens to make Wallander the killer's next victim.

Monday, September 17 at 11:00 p.m.
Independent Lens
The Longoria Affair
Sixty years ago in Three Rivers, Texas, the only funeral home in town refused to hold a wake for Felix Longoria, a decorated Mexican American soldier killed in battle during World War II. Longoria’s widow was told, simply, “The whites wouldn’t like it.” Those words became front-page news across the country, sparking outrage and setting off a series of events that would come to be known as the Longoria Affair.

Tuesday, September 18 at 9:00 p.m.
American Experience
Death and the Civil War
Historian and Harvard president Drew Gilpin Faust’s acclaimed book, “Death and the Civil War” explores a critical but largely overlooked aspect of the Civil War experience: the immense and varied implications of the war’s staggering and unprecedented death toll.

Wednesday, September 19 at
8:00 p.m.
NOVA
Making Stuff Stronger
From steel to Kevlar and spider silk to carbon nanotubes, host David Pogue looks at the ways in which science and nature work to make strong stuff. Click here to see the video.

Wednesday, September 19 at
11:00 p.m.
Not in Our Town: Light in the Darkness
In Patchogue, New York, an ethnically diverse working-class village in Suffolk County, a series of attacks against Latino residents ended with the killing of an Ecuadoran immigrant who had lived in the village for 13 years.

Friday, September 21 at 9:00 p.m.
From Dust to Dreams - Opening Night at the Smith Center for the Performing Arts
Las Vegas rolls out its new performing arts center in this special hosted by Neal Patrick Harris. A host of stars will take the stage including Jennifer Hudson, Willie Nelson, Martina McBride and Carole King.

Thursday, September 27 at 8:00 p.m.
Live from Lincoln Center
Opening Gala of the New York Philharmonic
One week after the inaugural subscription concerts of 2012-2013 the Philharmonic is playing a Gala, with Itzhak Perlman as guest artist: It is that concert, on the evening of September 27, that will mark the opening of our new Live From Lincoln Center season and the start of Alan Gilbert's fourth as the Philharmonic's Music Director. 

Sunday, September 30 at 1:00 p.m.
Great Performances at the Met
Wagner's Ring Cycle - Siegfried
The young hero Siegfried grows up in the wilderness, raised by Alberich’s conniving brother Mime. He puts together the broken pieces of the sword Nothung, uses it to slay the fearsome dragon Fafner and takes the ring for himself.

Sunday, September 30 at 8:00 p.m.
Call the Midwife
This moving, intimate, funny and true-to-life series, based on the best-selling memoirs of the late Jennifer Worth, tells colorful stories of midwifery and families in London’s East End in the 1950s. Jenny Lee, a young woman raised in the wealthy English countryside, has chosen to become a nurse and now, as a newly qualified midwife, has gone to work in the poorest area of the city. (Part 1 of 6)

Sunday, September 30 at 10:00 p.m.
Masterpiece
Upstairs, Downstairs
It's 1936, a tumultuous time in Britain, and within the walls of 165 Eaton Place, characters from an orphanage, a damp Welsh castle, the heart of the British Raj and elsewhere together will face a changing world, not just upstairs and downstairs, but side by side.