Owings Mills, MD-Tune in to Maryland Public Television (MPT) on November 3, 10 and 17 at 8pm for a forensic journey that explores the rise and fall of some of mankind's earliest known relatives in a comprehensive three-part, three-hour special investigating groundbreaking new discoveries that are transforming the picture of mankind's evolution.


Release Date: November 03, 2009 full story

Owings Mills, MD - Join Maryland Public Television (MPT) on November 24 at 8pm for a special encore presentation of this revealing documentary that chronicles the lives and struggles of foster children in the state of Maryland.


Release Date: October 29, 2009 full story

Owings Mills, MD— During the month of October MPT and its partners will pay tribute to the life and times of one of America’s most fascinating and prolific authors—Baltimore’s own Edgar Allan Poe—with a series of public events that will provide an intimate look inside the mind of one of the most misunderstood and influential literary figures of the last two centuries.


Release Date: October 01, 2009 full story

Owings Mills, MD-Filmmaker Adriana Bosch will join MPT for a free preview screening of Latin Music USA followed by an audience Q&A and reception at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center in Silver Spring, MD, on September 27 at 5:30pm.


Release Date: September 25, 2009 full story

Owings Mills, MD—Following a summer of heated sound-bites from Capitol Hill and across the country, Maryland Public Television’s (MPT) State Circle will devote a special edition of the program this week to a look at the real issues surrounding the current health-care reform debate and what those proposals mean for Marylanders.


Release Date: September 23, 2009 full story

OWINGS MILLS, MD - Following what its management calls the unhappy trend of institutional and corporate budget cuts and staff restructurings now taking place across the United States, Maryland Public Television (MPT) today announced a series of administrative steps that will cut the MPT workforce to prevent a current-year budget shortfall. The MPT announcement mirrors those made by other public broadcasters, as an outgrowth of the nationwide financial crisis.


Release Date: September 14, 2009 full story

Owings Mills, MD—Maryland Public Television (MPT) and the Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) will present free, one-hour preview screenings of Ken Burns's newest documentary film, The National Parks: America's Best Idea, at several Maryland state park locations beginning Monday, September 14 through Wednesday, September 23.


Release Date: September 11, 2009 full story

MPT spotlights Baltimore City’s hotly contested Red Line Friday, August 14 at 7:30 p.m. on State Circle, as two Canton residents with opposing viewpoints speak out on the issue.


Release Date: August 14, 2009 full story

The founder and artistic director of the nation’s premiere African American orchestra will host a free screening of MPT's Song in a Strange Land at Baltimore’s Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History Thursday, July 30 at 5 p.m.


Release Date: July 28, 2009 full story

As the nation prepares to celebrate the 40th anniversary (July 20, 1969) of the first manned moon landing, former NASA astronaut Alan Bean joins MPT for State Circle, Friday, July 17 at 7:30 p.m.


Release Date: July 16, 2009 full story

MPT's original documentary On the Trail of Captain John Smith: Rediscovering the Chesapeake Bay, was recently awarded a prestigious 2008 CINE Golden Eagle Award in the organization’s history category.


Release Date: July 15, 2009 full story