Weekly TV Picks

All times Eastern

NOVEMBER, VARIOUS DATES

Kitty Hawk: The Wright

Brothers’ Journey of Invention

PBS, check local listings

Orville and Wilbur Wright were master inventors, not the amateurs and tinkerers of popular lore. This exciting documentary features hundreds of rare photos, plus interviews with experts and film footage of flights by replica aircraft. The first man on the moon, Neil Armstrong, and America's first man in space, John Glenn, do the voices of Orville and Wilbur in narrative sequences.

SUNDAY, NOV. 2

Franciscan University Presents

EWTN, 7 p.m.

Saints of the Jubilee, a book edited by Register correspondent Tim Drake, features brief biographies of new saints such as Sister Faustina Kowalska (of the Divine Mercy devotion), Sister Katherine Drexel, martyrs of China and Mexico, and the 11 Holy Family of Nazareth Sisters of Nowogrodek, whom the Nazis executed in 1943. Drake speaks with Father Michael Scanlan, Regis Martin and Scott Hahn. Re-airs Tuesday at 1 p.m. and Friday at 3 a.m.

MONDAY, NOV. 3

Guts and Bolts

History Channel, 8:30 p.m.

The military hardware that Tim Beggy gamely tries out in this episode includes an ejection seat, a flight simulator and a centrifuge that introduces fighter pilot trainees to high gravitational forces.

TUESDAY, NOV. 4

NOVA: Welcome to the 11th Dimension

PBS, 8 p.m.

This is the final installment of “The Elegant Universe,” based on Brian Greene's book of the same name. The show discusses M-theory, a version of string theory that Edward Witten and others came up with in 1995. M-theory unites five previous theories and speculatively posits the existence of 11 dimensions.

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 5

Benediction

EWTN, 4:30 a.m., 6 p.m.

This 30-minute film, in Bulgarian with English subtitles, tells the inspiring story of Archbishop Angelo Roncalli (1881-1963), who became Blessed Pope John XXIII, and his links to Bulgaria. He served with the Holy See there, 1931-1935; and later, from Istanbul, he helped thousands of Bulgarian Jews escape the Nazis in World WarII.

FRIDAY, NOV. 7

Nazi POWs in America

History Channel, 10 a.m.

Not everyone today realizes that, during World War II, the U.S. military confined 400,000 Axis captives in hundreds of POW camps across the United States. This documentary is an account of the German army and air force prisoners.

SATURDAY, NOV. 8

The Well-Seasoned Traveler

A& E, 1 p.m.

In this episode, chef and restaurant owner Doug Duda scours the Big Apple on an enjoyable taste-tour of New York-style pizza.

Dan Engler writes from Santa Barbara, California.