Thursday, September 1, 2011 at 6:30pm

PROHIBITION

More than rumrunners and speakeasies, Prohibition was a complex era that changed America forever. Preview the new Ken Burns and Lynn Novick documentary which explores the underlying causes and unexpected results of the 18th Amendment and raises vital questions that are still relevant today.

An open discussion immediately follows the showing with Steven M. Avella, professor of history, Marquette University; and Guy Rehorst, founder of Great Lakes Distillery.

Broadcast: PROHIBITION premieres October 2 at 7 p.m. on MPTV 10.1 HD

Call (414) 297–7520 with questions.

Thursday, October 6, 2011 “Special” at 7:00pm

FREE Screening of WISCONSIN’S NAZI RESISTANCE at the Jewish Museum Milwaukee, 1360 N. Prospect Avenue, Milwaukee

A Milwaukee woman living in Berlin dared oppose Adolf Hitler and the Nazis...she would pay the ultimate price. Preview the film and view the exhibit “Mildred Fish Harnack: The Story of A Wisconsin Woman’s Resistance”(at the Jewish Museum Milwaukee through Nov. 27).

An open discussion follows the preview with Joel Waldinger, producer of this Wisconsin Public Television original production; Ellie Gettinger, Jewish Museum Milwaukee museum educator; and Bonnie Shafrin, director of the Nathan & Esther Pelz Holocaust Resource Center.

The event is free but reservations requested by Sept. 27 online or by phone: 414-390-5730. Online Reservations: Click Here

Parking is available in the Museum/ Federation building lot (runs along the south side and behind the building) as well as on the street. Free overflow parking will also be available in the underground lot of the Jewish Home and Care Center , 1414 N. Prospect Ave. which is attached via an indoor corridor to the Rubenstein Pavilion and the Museum (ramp located on Curtis and Prospect).

Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 6:30pm

ÂS NUTAYUNEÂN: WE STILL LIVE HERE

The Wampanoag saved the Pilgrims, but lost their land and language. Once heard throughout eastern Massachusetts, Wampanoag had no remaining speakers for more than a century.Then one woman, Jessie Little Doe Baird, led an effort to bring the language back to life with amazing results. See the film by Anne Makepeace.

Join an open discussion with Diane Amour, coordinator/senior advisor for American Indian Student Services at UWM and board member of the Indian Community School; Bernard Perley, a member of the Anthropology Department at UWM; Roger Thomas, Ojibwe teacher and member of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians; and Andrew Wiberg, former Ojibwe student and graduate student in Library & Information Science at UWM.

Broadcast: ÂS NUTAYUNEÂN: WE STILL LIVE HERE premieres Nov. 20 at 11 p.m. on MPTV 36.1 HD

Parking at Discovery World $5 for this event.

For more information call (414) 297–7520

December 1, 2011

TAKING ROOT, an Independent Lens production. Wangari Maathai of Kenya suggested rural women plant trees in 1977 to address problems stemming from a degraded environment. Under her leadership, their tree-planting grew into a nationwide movement to safeguard the environment, defend human rights and promote democracy.

January 5, 2012

AROUND THE CORNER WITH JOHN MCGIVERN, an MPTV production. First in a series of thirteen half-hour shows, local actor/personality John McGivern takes us to the neighborhood of Bay View. The “living there, working there and playing there” segments catch the spirit of the community. You won’t want to miss the discussion that follows. John McGivern and John Gurda will be in attendance for questions after the preview.

February 2, 2012

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: CLINTON The biography of a president who rose from a broken childhood in Arkansas to become one of the most successful politicians in modern American history, and one of the most complex and conflicted characters to ever stride across the public state. From draft dodging to the Dayton Accords, from Monica Lewinsky to a balanced budget, the presidency of William Jefferson Clinton veered between sordid scandal and grand achievement. Clinton had a career full of accomplishment and rife with scandal, a marriage that would make history and create controversy, and a presidency that would define the crucial and transformative period between the fall of the Berlin Wall and 9-11.

CLINTON follows the president across his two terms as he confronted some of the key forces that would shape the future, including partisan political warfare and domestic and international terrorism, and as he struggled with uneven success to define the role of American power in a post-Cold War world. Most memorably, it explores how Clinton's conflicted character made history, even as it enraged his enemies and confounded his friends.

March 1, 2012

REVENGE OF THE ELECTRIC CAR, an Independent Lens production. Go behind closed doors of Nissan, GM and the Silicon Valley start-up Tesla Motors to chronicle the story of the global resurgence of electric cars.

April 5, 2012

HELL AND BACK AGAIN, an Independent Lens production by Danfung Dennis. U. S. Marine Sergeant Nathan Harris, 25, leads his unit to fight a ghostlike enemy in Afghanistan. Wounded in battle, Harris returns to North Carolina and his young wife to fight the pain, addiction, and the terrifying normalcy of life at home.

May 3, 2012

STRONG!, an Independent Lens production that chronicles the journey and challenges an unusual elite athlete faces. Cheryl Haworth, standing 5’8” and weighing over 300 pounds, struggles to defend her champion status in weightlifting. The film explores popular notions of power, strength, beauty and health.

For details and updates, check back or call MPTV Viewer Services at 414-297-7520.

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