SUNDAY, Sept. 7, 9pm
Aerial America: Witness
SMITHSONIAN CHANNEL Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act of 1964, this special episode presents helicopter views of national park landscapes preserved by the Wilderness Act, from Alaska to Florida.

THURSDAY, Sept. 11, 6pm
Rebuilding the World Trade Center
HISTORY This new, two-hour documentary by Belfast-born Marcus Robinson chronicles the eight-year building of the One World Trade Center on the site of the 9/11 attacks, spotlighting the construction workers, who considered the area sacred ground. Robinson used time-lapse scenes from the 13 cameras he placed around the site.

THURSDAY, Sept. 11, 8pm
9/11 E-Men Heroes
DISCOVERY CHANNEL This new special uses previously unaired archival film and firsthand interviews to tell the story of the New York Police Department’s Emergency Service Unit (ESU), which specializes in search and rescue. Fourteen of the 31 E-Men who entered the World Trade Center on 9/11 lost their lives that day.

FRIDAY, Sept. 12, 8pm
Life on the Rock
EWTN Seminarians Eric Spore and Ryan Adorjan tell Father Mark Mary and Doug Barry about the fast-growing St. John Vianney Seminary in St. Paul, Minn. Re-airs at 4am Saturday, 2pm Sunday and noon Tuesday.

SATURDAY, Sept. 13, 8pm
Great Performances: Star-Spangled Spectacular: Bicentennial of Our National Anthem
PBS In this two-hour special, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, singers Smokey Robinson, Kenny Rogers, Kristin Chenoweth and other entertainers celebrate the 200th anniversary of the composing of the American national anthem by patriot Francis Scott Key on Sept. 14, 1812, the morning after Fort McHenry and its giant flag withstood an all-night British bombardment.

SUNDAY, Sept. 14, 10:30am
I Was Glad: The Cross and the Holy Name
EWTN New York Archdiocesan Father George Rutler discourses about the cross of our salvation and the Holy Name of Jesus.

TUESDAY, Sept. 16, 5:30am
Miracles of the Cross in the Lives of the Saints
EWTN This special tours shrines of saints who had mystical experiences with the crucified Christ, including St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Catherine of Siena and others. Re-airs at 1:30pm Saturday.

FRIDAY, Sept. 19, 3am, 6:30pm
Saint Kateri Tekakwitha: A Pilgrimage Into Her Heart
EWTN This show describes the life of St. Kateri (1656-1680) and follows the process that led to her canonization in 2012.

SATURDAY, Sept. 20, 6:30am, 5pm
The Church and the Poor: Come and See: A Healing Experience
EWTN The 550-strong Missionaries of the Poor operate in Jamaica, Haiti, Asia, Africa and the U.S. In this show, founder Father Richard Ho Lung, along with Father William Forrey, shows how they serve Christ’s poor.

Dan Engler writes from
Santa Barbara, California.