Sunday, May 17th TV listings for PBS (WKNO2) Memphis, TN
America ReFramed Geographies of Kinship
Four adult adoptees return to Korea and recover personal histories that were lost when they were adopted.
Ghost Mountain: The Second Killing Fields of Cambodia
A Cambodian refugee makes his way to Connecticut after escaping the killing fields in 1980.
The Chavis Chronicles Rabbi Kaplan & Jamaal Abdul-Alim
Rabbi Bob Kaplan, founder of JCRC-NY, reveals his work fighting bigotry and rebuilding fractured communities; writer and journalist Jamaal Abdul-Alim delves into gun violence in underserved communities.
Laura Flanders & Friends Louisiana Survived Katrina. Will it Survive the Petrochemical Industry?
Louisiana faces a new kind of storm decades after Hurricane Katrina -- liquified natural gas facilities.
Ask This Old House Quartz Countertops; Firepit Kit
Kevin learns how quartz countertops are manufactured and installed; Nathan explains how to hang and display a U.S. flag; Tom and Jenn split firewood; Mark installs a fire pit that comes in a kit.
Ask This Old House Shower Cartridge; Turning a Bowl
Drywall paneling; cleaning a shower cartridge; using a lathe; turning a bowl.
Ask This Old House Future House; Offerman
Kevin gets a firsthand look at Nick Offerman's woodworking shop; home technology expert Ross Trethewey looks at a new device to track home energy usage in Future House; Richard shows what happens when one uses the wrong soap in the dishwasher.
Ask This Old House NASA; Simulated Panels
Tom is in Cincinnati to create a simulated wainscoting out of base cap molding; NASA astronaut Mike Foreman shows off a few space tools; Richard helps a homeowner get enough hot water for his children's bath time.
East Tennessee PBS President Vickie Lawson shares stories of the everyday folks and famous individuals who proudly call Tennessee home.
Traveling the highways and byways of Tennessee.
Family Plot: Gardening in the Mid-South
Horticulture expert Dr. Chris Cooper and other experts share their garden wisdom and answer e-mails and letters about lawn and gardens.
Discussing fishing, hunting and other outdoor sports in the state of Tennessee.
Taped in the subterranean amphitheater of The Caverns in Tennessee's Cumberland Mountains, both long-established and emerging artists perform within a broad spectrum of genres.
Stampede City Sessions Drew Gregory
Various musical guests perform on stage.
Classic Gospel Brothers of the Heart: Listen to the Music
Brothers of the Heart reimagine country, gospel and pop classics; songs include "Ring of Fire" and "Desperado."
Great Performances Irving Berlin's Top Hat
Based on the 1935 movie musical starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, "Top Hat" features dazzling choreography and period sets, with an Irving Berlin score featuring "Cheek to Cheek," "Let's Face the Music and Dance" and "Puttin' on the Ritz."
Independent Lens Natchez New
The town of Natchez, Miss., confronts the tension between preservation and truth as it wrestles with race, memory and identity.
Nature Attenborough and the Sea Dragon
Onsite extraction of fossils of an ichthyosaur, a fish lizard that ruled during the time of the dinosaurs, and a 3-D reconstruction of the creature; host David Attenborough.
Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Far From Home
Jamie Chung, Cyndi Lauper and Danny Trejo retrace the journeys of their immigrant ancestors.
Reel South Louder Than Guns
Ketch Secor and journalist David Greene travel the country fostering open conversations on gun rights and violence.
Asian Americans Good Americans
Although heralded as a model minority, bold ambition leads Asian Americans to national political office as a culture-quake simmers beneath the surface.
Home Is a Hotel (2023)
From a single mother trying to find her missing daughter to an elderly woman going blind and facing eviction, the low-income residents of San Francisco's single room occupancy housing tell their stories.
American Muslims: A History Revealed A New Hope for Freedom
Malika Bilal, Senior Presenter, Al Jazeera English, tells the story of early Black American Muslim communities through a woman named Florence Watts, who moved to the bustling South Side of Chicago around 1910.
American Muslims: A History Revealed A South Asian in the Southwest
Asma Khalid travels to the American Southwest to tell the story of Mir Dad, a Muslim man from South Asia who comes to the U.S. in 1917 and marries a Mexican-American woman on the California-Arizona border in the early years of the 20th century.
News. Reporting on the day's international news from London and from BBC correspondents around the world.
The Whitney Reynolds Show Digging Up Dreams
Bold dreamers like entrepreneur Betsy Fore, Trent Davis, Victoria Thomas and Nigel Barker prove that purpose grows when we dig deep and believe big.
We introduce the renewed NEWSROOM TOKYO featuring its team of new anchors and highlighting its appeal through a special Expo-focused episode.
Direct and in-depth interviews exploring the minds and motivations of the leaders, visionaries, artists and entrepreneurs who are changing our world.
A selection of acclaimed programs from NHK's domestic channels, dubbed into English.
Nature Attenborough and the Sea Dragon
Onsite extraction of fossils of an ichthyosaur, a fish lizard that ruled during the time of the dinosaurs, and a 3-D reconstruction of the creature; host David Attenborough.