WORLD (MT)

5:00 pm 

Blue Ridge Parkway: A Long & Winding Road   THE BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY: A LONG & WINDING ROAD is a historical documentary concerning the most visited segment of the National Park Service. It explores the impact on people along the route and the conflicts inherent in building the 469-mile Parkway. The documentary also makes public, for the first time, a secret deal between FDR and a powerful congressman that was a stunning New Deal political tradeoff. D

6:00 pm 

Critical Condition: California's Emergency Rooms   Critical Condition: California's Emergency Rooms focuses on the crisis facing emergency rooms in California. This documentary program takes a look at the impact that overcrowded emergency rooms have on doctors, nurses and ultimately patients. D

6:30 pm 

Crisis In Caring: California's School Nursing Shortage   If your child becomes sick or injured at school, legally there might be no one who can help them. In one Northern California school district, there is only one nurse for 14,800 students, 20 times more than the recommended national standard. A Crisis in Caring: California's School Nursing Shortage examines this growing concern by taking an in-depth look at some of the daily challenges facing school nurses, faculty, and students. D

7:00 pm 

The Last Chapter   THE LAST CHAPTER examines the benefits of planning for end-of-life care through interviews with a diverse collection of subjects, including elderly hospice patients, parents of a child battling a rare metabolic bone disease, a young father of three suffering from liver and colon cancer, and even an unlikely hospice "survivor," a 45-year-old mother with congestive heart failure. Throughout, doctors from several Pittsburgh-area hospitals stress the importance of communication regarding end-of-life decision-making. These difficult, but necessary conversations can help patients navigate - and even dictate - their end-of-life scenarios. D

8:00 pm 

Global Voices  "Motherland Afghanistan"  One in seven Afghan women currently dies in childbirth. MOTHERLAND AFGHANISTAN introduces the women behind these devastating statistics. Afghan American filmmaker Sedika Mojadidi examines her father's works as an OB/GYN as he struggles to make a difference, first at Kabul's recently renamed Laura Bush Maternity Ward and then in an isolated provincial hospital, where patients often travel for several days to get treatment. D

9:00 pm 

Idaho Debates 2012  "2nd Congressional District Republican Primary"  NULL

10:00 pm 

Critical Condition: California's Emergency Rooms   Critical Condition: California's Emergency Rooms focuses on the crisis facing emergency rooms in California. This documentary program takes a look at the impact that overcrowded emergency rooms have on doctors, nurses and ultimately patients. D

10:30 pm 

Crisis In Caring: California's School Nursing Shortage   If your child becomes sick or injured at school, legally there might be no one who can help them. In one Northern California school district, there is only one nurse for 14,800 students, 20 times more than the recommended national standard. A Crisis in Caring: California's School Nursing Shortage examines this growing concern by taking an in-depth look at some of the daily challenges facing school nurses, faculty, and students. D

11:00 pm 

The Last Chapter   THE LAST CHAPTER examines the benefits of planning for end-of-life care through interviews with a diverse collection of subjects, including elderly hospice patients, parents of a child battling a rare metabolic bone disease, a young father of three suffering from liver and colon cancer, and even an unlikely hospice "survivor," a 45-year-old mother with congestive heart failure. Throughout, doctors from several Pittsburgh-area hospitals stress the importance of communication regarding end-of-life decision-making. These difficult, but necessary conversations can help patients navigate - and even dictate - their end-of-life scenarios. D