WORLD (MT)

12:30 am 

Need to Know  "Habitat Havoc"  JEFF GREENFIELD ANCHORS. Anchor Jeff Greenfield looks ahead to next week's Democratic national convention in Charlotte. He reports from Ohio on the Democrats' efforts there to win the white working class vote -- a group considered key to carrying the state and winning the election. D

1:00 am 

Botany of Desire   Based on Michael Pollan's best-selling book, this special embarks on an exploration of the human relationship with the plant world as seen from the plants' point of view. Frances McDormand narrates this program that shows how four familiar species - the apple, the tulip, marijuana and the potato - evolved to satisfy human yearnings for sweetness, beauty, intoxication and control. The program visits Idaho to discuss the commercial growth of the potato, which was originally domesticated in Peru more than 8,000 years ago.G

3:00 am 

Whispers of Angels: A Story of the Underground Railroad   This documentary tells the story of the Eastern Line of the system to rescue slaves from the South. Actors Ed Asner and Blair Underwood portray a Quaker abolitionist and a free black activist respectively in dramatic reenactments filmed on location. Interviews with top scholars explore the efforts of these men.G

4:00 am 

Safe Harbor   A story of strength and determination, told through the eyes of the slaves and the people who risked their lives to save them. From free black communities to middle-class white society, groups of freedom fighters defied race and gender in one of the greatest survival stories of all time.G

5:00 am 

Hubert H. Humphrey: The Art of the Possible   Many Americans remember former Vice President Hubert Humphrey (1911-1978) as a cheerleader for the Vietnam War - shunned by his own party and mistrusted by a generation of young people. Others considered him a great progressive, a guiding light for the post-New Deal liberal movement that forged The New Frontier and The Great Society, and a champion of civil rights. HUBERT H. HUMPHREY: THE ART OF THE POSSIBLE takes a fresh look at the great body of work of this remarkable American. D

7:00 am 

Prohibition  "A Nation of Drunkards"  Alcohol, embedded in the fabric of American culture since Colonial times, by 1830 was dangerously abused with a national consumption three times today's use. A spiritual fervor sweeps the country, igniting a temperance campaign even as European immigrants arrive with their own drinking customs. Carrie Nation attacks bars with stones and hatchets. The Anti-Saloon League (ASL) forms to push for a Constitutional amendment outlawing alcohol nationally - and succeeds. Part 1 of 3G

9:00 am 

Prohibition  "A Nation of Scofflaws"  Now illegal to manufacture, transport or sell intoxicating liquor, millions of law-abiding Americans become lawbreakers overnight. Weaknesses in the Volstead Act and its enforcement become clear. Many become victims of the law; alcoholism still exists, and women begin to drink in the speakeasies that replace the male-only saloon. Part 2 of 3G

11:00 am 

Prohibition  "A Nation of Hypocrites"  The law gives savvy gangsters a way to make huge profits with rival outfits wreaking havoc across the country. Al Capone holds press conferences and signs autographs. Wealthy Pauline Sabin unifies women of all classes to refute the notion all women support Prohibition. In 1932, Congress easily passes the 21st Amendment to repeal the 18th. Part 3 of 3G

1:00 pm 

Global Voices  "I Was Worth 50 Sheep"  Following a long practiced tradition in Afghanistan, 10-year-old Sabere was sold to a man in his fifties. For the next six years she was both slave and wife, miscarrying four times. Now at sixteen, she is fighting for her freedom. D

2:00 pm 

Prohibition  "A Nation of Drunkards"  Alcohol, embedded in the fabric of American culture since Colonial times, by 1830 was dangerously abused with a national consumption three times today's use. A spiritual fervor sweeps the country, igniting a temperance campaign even as European immigrants arrive with their own drinking customs. Carrie Nation attacks bars with stones and hatchets. The Anti-Saloon League (ASL) forms to push for a Constitutional amendment outlawing alcohol nationally - and succeeds. Part 1 of 3G

4:00 pm 

Prohibition  "A Nation of Scofflaws"  Now illegal to manufacture, transport or sell intoxicating liquor, millions of law-abiding Americans become lawbreakers overnight. Weaknesses in the Volstead Act and its enforcement become clear. Many become victims of the law; alcoholism still exists, and women begin to drink in the speakeasies that replace the male-only saloon. Part 2 of 3G

6:00 pm 

Prohibition  "A Nation of Hypocrites"  The law gives savvy gangsters a way to make huge profits with rival outfits wreaking havoc across the country. Al Capone holds press conferences and signs autographs. Wealthy Pauline Sabin unifies women of all classes to refute the notion all women support Prohibition. In 1932, Congress easily passes the 21st Amendment to repeal the 18th. Part 3 of 3G

8:00 pm 

Global Voices  "I Was Worth 50 Sheep"  Following a long practiced tradition in Afghanistan, 10-year-old Sabere was sold to a man in his fifties. For the next six years she was both slave and wife, miscarrying four times. Now at sixteen, she is fighting for her freedom. D

9:00 pm 

Prohibition  "A Nation of Drunkards"  Alcohol, embedded in the fabric of American culture since Colonial times, by 1830 was dangerously abused with a national consumption three times today's use. A spiritual fervor sweeps the country, igniting a temperance campaign even as European immigrants arrive with their own drinking customs. Carrie Nation attacks bars with stones and hatchets. The Anti-Saloon League (ASL) forms to push for a Constitutional amendment outlawing alcohol nationally - and succeeds. Part 1 of 3G

11:00 pm 

Prohibition  "A Nation of Scofflaws"  Now illegal to manufacture, transport or sell intoxicating liquor, millions of law-abiding Americans become lawbreakers overnight. Weaknesses in the Volstead Act and its enforcement become clear. Many become victims of the law; alcoholism still exists, and women begin to drink in the speakeasies that replace the male-only saloon. Part 2 of 3G