august tv features Diana Ross keeps her promise
Cinema at the tipping point
On July 21, 1983, Diana Ross took the stage in New York’s Central Park before an audience of more than 800,000. A rainstorm ended the performance, but not before Ross promised her fans she would return the next day. True to her word, Ross performed the entire concert again on July 22 and proceeds from the concert benefited the Diana Ross Playground, built three years later in Central Park. Diana Ross: For One and For All airs at 8 pm Friday, Aug. 9.
Photo: Courtesy Maryland Public Television
Side By Side: The Science, Art and Impact of Digital Cinema is a provocative examination of how digital filmmaking is challenging traditional celluloid film as the gold standard in moviemaking. Airing at 8 pm Friday, Aug. 30, the program captures the essence of the film versus digital debate through interviews with filmmakers including James Cameron, George Lucas, David Lynch, Martin Scorsese and Steven Soderbergh.
Photo: Gavin Rees/© BBC
The first atomic attack
It was the defining
moment of the 20th
Century―the scientific, military and political
gamble of the world’s first atomic attack.
Hiroshima, a drama-
documentary airing at 7 pm Tuesday, Aug.
6, takes viewers into the room where the
political decisions are made, on board the
Enola Gay, inside the bomb as it explodes
and on the streets of
Hiroshima when disaster strikes.
10 PATTERNS • JULY 2013