Follow the manhunt, step-by-step, for the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings, and explore the role modern technology — combined with old-fashioned detective work – played in finding the suspects.

At 2:50 p.m. on April 15, two bomb blasts turned the Boston Marathon finish line from a scene of triumph to tragedy, leaving three dead, hundreds injured and a city gripped by heartbreak and terror. Less than five days later, the key suspects were identified and apprehended, with one dead, the other in custody. How did investigators transform the chaos of the bombing into a coherent trail of clues, pointing to the accused killers?

NOVA follows the manhunt step-by-step, examining the role modern technology — combined with old-fashioned detective work — played in cracking the case. Given hundreds of hours of surveillance and bystander videos, how did agents spot the bad guys in a sea of spectators? Why couldn’t facial recognition software I.D. the criminals? How much could bomb chemistry analysis, cell phone GPS, infrared imagery and crowd sourcing reveal about the secrets behind this horrific crime?

With the help of top criminal investigators and anti-terrorism experts, NOVA explores which technological innovations worked — and which didn’t — in the most notorious case of today, and how the world of crime fighting could be transformed tomorrow.

Photo: BOSTON – APRIL 15: A second explosion goes off near the finish line of the 117th Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013. Credit: Photo by David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

YOUR VOICE COUNTS!

Don’t miss a special screening followed by an interactive discussion about our education system and how it affects your student and what can be done to help the drop out crisis in New Mexico.

Saturday, April 20, 2013
10:00am-Noon
Albuquerque Convention Center
401 Second Street. NW

10:00am-11:00am Screening
“TAVIS SMILEY REPORTS: EDUCATION UNDER ARREST”
This special looks at the connection between the juvenile justice system and the dropout rate among American teens and what is being done about “the school-to-prison pipeline.”

Refreshments will be served.

11:00am-12:00pm
Panel discussion to focus on our education system, how it affects your student, the school-to-prison pipeline, and other issues that are keeping kids from achieving in school. The panel include representatives from the Juvenile Justice Department, Children’s Court UNM Public Health and other community members.

After the panel discussion, please stay for an interactive discussion with the audience.
WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU! YOUR VOICE MATTERS!

Sponsored by:
New Mexico PBS

Office of African American Affairs

Call 505-222-9405 for more information
www.oaaa.state.nm.us

Experience The History Of The Land Down Under, The Island Continent That Has It All

April 10 – May 1
  Ch 5.1 – Wednesdays at 8:00 pm
                & Sundays at 10:00 am
  Ch.9.1 – Saturdays at 9:00 pm,
                beginning 4/13

Of all the continents on Earth, none preserves a more spectacular story of its origins than Australia. NOVA’s miniseries takes viewers on a rollicking adventure from the birth of the Earth to the emergence of the world we know today. With high-energy host and geologist Richard Smith, meet titanic dinosaurs and giant kangaroos, sea monsters and prehistoric crustaceans, disappearing mountains and deadly asteroids. Epic in scope, intimate in nature, this is the untold story of the Land Down Under, the island continent that has it all.

“Australia’s First 4 Billion Years:
Awakening”
Wednesday 4/10 at 8:00 pm

Travel with Richard Smith to meet the cast in the first scenes of the great drama of life on earth. –

Hidden in the red hills of Australia are clues to the mysteries of Earth’s birth, how life arose and how it transformed the planet into the world we now live in. Experts unveil the earliest forms of life: an odd assortment of bacterial slime. Life like this would flood the atmosphere with oxygen and spark the biological revolution that conquered the planet. Travel with NOVA and host Dr. Richard Smith to meet the cast in the first scenes of the great drama of life on earth.

“Australia’s First 4 Billion Years:
Life Explodes”
Wednesday 4/17 at 8:00 pm

See how life stormed the beaches and came to dominate planet Earth. –

How did life storm the beaches and dominate planet Earth? Ancient Australian fossils offer clues. While the oceans were teeming, the world above the waves remained an almost lifeless wasteland — until the Silurian period, when the conquest of the land began. Host Richard Smith introduces Earth’s forgotten pioneers: the scuttling arthropod armies that invaded the shores and the waves of green revolutionaries whose battle for the light pushed plant life across the face of a barren continent. Join NOVA’s prehistoric adventure as four-legged animals walk onto dry land, with the planet poised for disaster.

“Australia’s First 4 Billion Years:
Monsters”
Wednesday 4/24 at 8:00 pm

Come face-to-face with the previously unknown reptilian rulers of prehistoric Australia.

– Host Richard Smith comes face-to-face with the previously unknown reptilian rulers of prehistoric Australia. NOVA resurrects the giants that stalked the land and discovers that some of them were among the largest ever to have walked the Earth. Others were some of the most dangerous. In the dry desert heart, scientists unearth an ancient inland ocean, full of sea monsters. But reptiles didn’t have the world all to themselves. Mammals like the enigmatic platypus lived alongside them, ready for their day in the sun. And 65 million years ago, that day arrived.

“Australia’s First 4 Billion Years:
Strange Creatures”
Wednesday 5/1 at 8:00 pm

Travel this walkabout continent to uncover how it became the strange island it is today.

– After the asteroid impact 65 million years ago — believed to have wiped out the dinosaurs — Australia was set adrift on a lonely voyage in southern seas. With host Richard Smith at the wheel, NOVA travels this walkabout continent to uncover how it became the strange island it is today. Australia’s many unusual creatures, like the kangaroo and the cassowary, tell a tale of isolation, change and resilience. Australia’s long history has seen mountains rise and fall, seas come and go, and whole kingdoms of life triumph and disappear. In this final episode, NOVA races down the last 65 million years to the present day.

Tuesdays at 9:00 pm

As PBS’ premier public affairs series, every week FRONTLINE provides incisive documentaries covering the scope and complexity of the human, social and political experience.

In the month of April, all programs are new - from the ongoing turmoil in Syria, to the question of whether your retirement savings are safe, to the recollections of child survivors of the Holocaust in the Jewish ghettos of Poland (in conjunction with Yom Hashoah, the Holocaust Days of Remembrance).

“Syria Behind the Lines”
Tuesday 4/9 at 9:00 pm

Witness the devastating effect of the religious feud that’s shaping Syria’s future. —  In the rural heartland of Syria’s countryside, the bloody uprising against President Bashar Al Assad has taken a terrifying turn. In this highly charged documentary, award-winning filmmaker Olly Lambert lives on both sides of Syria’s sectarian frontline, witnessing the devastating effect of a religious feud that, regardless of the outcome of the war, is shaping Syria’s future. For generations, the many religions in Syria’s Orontes River Valley have lived together peacefully. But as the conflict spirals into a contagious and sectarian blood feud, friends and neighbors of different faiths are taking up arms against each other, as Syrian society begins to collapse. And as each side seeks more and more revenge, shells, mortars and air attacks only escalate the hatred and violence on both sides.

“The Retirement Gamble”
Tuesday 4/23 at 9:00 pm

Learn how fees, self-dealing and kickbacks profit Wall Street while imperiling our savings.

Ten trillion dollars in Americans’ retirement savings are invested in large and small accounts managed by banks, brokerages, mutual funds and insurance companies. But whether your IRA or 401K will assure a safe retirement is largely a gamble. Building off reporting from the groundbreaking special “Money, Power and Wall Street,” FRONTLINE raises troubling questions about how America’s financial institutions protect our savings. “The Retirement Gamble” reveals how fees, self-dealing and kickbacks bring great profits to Wall Street while imperiling the prospects of a secure future for individuals. The film questions who has the consumer’s best interests in mind, and whether there is a better way to manage our retirements.

“Never Forget to Lie”
Tuesday 4/30 at 9:00 pm

Travel to the Jewish ghettos of Poland to hear the poignant recollections of child survivors.

Filmmaker and Holocaust survivor Marian Marzynski returns to Poland and the Jewish ghettos of his childhood to chronicle the poignant, painful recollections of other child survivors. The film rescues haunting pieces of the past while exploring the conflicting feelings about national, cultural and religious identity that mark many survivors.

Coming in MAY…

FRONTLINE “Outlawed in Pakistan”
Tuesday 5/28 at 9:00 pm

Trace a teenaged rape victim’s five-year odyssey through Pakistan’s broken justice system.

When Pakistani teenager Kainat Soomro accused four men of gang rape, the courageous young woman did not put her suffering behind her. For this unforgettable documentary, which premiered at Sundance, filmmakers Habiba Nosheen and Hilke Schellmann spent five years tracing Kainat’s odyssey through Pakistan’s broken justice system — and her alleged rapists’ quest to clear their names. The result is a powerful and nuanced profile of courage in a society where rape victims and their families are often considered dishonorable and subjected to humiliation, poverty and mortal danger.