PLUS (PT)

9:00 pm 

Making War Horse   This film reveals the theatrical collaboration that creates a Tony Award-winning play based on Michael Morpurgo's children's novel about World War I. Cameras capture the innovators at Handspring Puppet Company, creating techniques to bring a lifelike horse to the stage for the drama of individual people and animals caught up in the war.G

10:00 pm 

History Detectives   Wes Cowan delves into the history of John Brown's raid on the federal armory in Harpers Ferry, an event precipitated by the raging emotions that preceded the Civil War. Cowan seeks to learn if a particular spear, or pike, may have been used by the group led by abolitionist Brown. Then Eduardo Pagân wonders why U.S. troops were in Siberia during World War I, and Elyse Luray sizes up a Ronald McDonald costume.G

11:00 pm 

Blitz: London's Longest Night   Archival footage, CGI and eyewitness accounts re-create December 29, 1940, when German Luftwaffe dropped tens of thousands of incendiary bombs on the heart of London in an attempt to break the spirit of the British people. Firemen and workers fight all night to control the burning; Londoners flee to shelters not knowing what will survive the assault.G