Below are the broadcast dates for San Jose, Chicago, and Providence.
For the rest of us, we will have to go to  http://www.pbs.org
Go to Station Finder, then the Station, then the Index. It takes a little 
patience. And if not in May Calendar look in June.

Please forward the info to anyone who might be interested. Thanks!
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Thanks to H-ITAM@H-NET.MSU.EDU [Editor, Prof. Ben Lawton]
(H-NET List on Italian-American History and Culture)
via Laura E. Ruberto 

The Documentary film "Prisoners in Paradise" (film description 
below) will air on some PBS stations in various places in May and June.

KCSM  San Jose, California  (probably the shorter fundraising version) 
Tuesday,  May 14,  8 pm 
Friday,  May 17, 11pm

WSBE  Providence, Rhode Island   ch36  (full length version)
Monday May 27,  8pm   (MEMORIAL DAY)

WTTW  Chicago, Illinois   Ch 11  (shorter fundraising version)
Monday, June 3rd,  7:30pm

"Prisoners in Paradise" a one hour documentary about Italian POWs held 
in America during WWII by Camilla Calamandrei, edited by Nancy Kennedy

Best Documentary Rhode Island Film Festival
"Inspiring" Orlando Sentinel
"You can't get better than this."  Providence Journal
"Enlightening and moving. A valuable and memorable film about the lives
of Italian prisoners of war in the United States."   --Stanley Kauffmann,
The New Republic

During World War II more than 51,000 Italian soldiers were brought to 
the United States as Prisoners of War.  The charming and poignant 
documentary special, "Prisoners in Paradise," traces the previously 
untold story of these young men, their romances and friendships with 
American women, and their significant - but unrecognized - contribution
to the Allied war effort.

Featuring rare period footage of POW camps, the film follows six 
Italian POWs (and the women they met in America) on their extraordinary
journey full of challenges, love, perseverance and good luck.  
Captured primarily in Northern Africa - where they had been surviving 
on hard biscuits and water - the Italian POWs were uniformly amazed 
at the abundance of the US and the generosity of their captors.  
Barracks were clean, treatment was humane, and, most importantly, food 
was always plentiful.  Ironically, for many, capture had turned out to 
be a stroke of good fortune.

Shortly after the bulk of the Italian POWs arrived, Italy officially
switched sides in the war, and over ninety percent of the POWs agreed 
to collaborate with the Allied war effort.  Suddenly, men who had been 
so badly defeated in the conflict, who spoke little or no English, and 
whose exposure to the United States had come only through movies and 
books, now found themselves living out the contradictory roles of 
prisoner and ally to the USA at the same time.

Though still restricted and kept under guard, collaborating POWs worked
in 26 states under the direction of American soldiers and were 
permitted both to receive visitors and to visit the homes of U.S. 
citizens on weekends.  Local Italian-American communities extended 
hearty welcomes to the POWs and meaningful, lasting relationships 
flourished. Romances between Italian POWs and American women were 
common, and many ended in long lasting marriages.

In its moving final act, "Prisoners of Paradise" follows four such 
couples, all of whom married after the war, and investigates the unique
challenges of the years since.  As the former POWs have become citizens
and raised families, all the while loving America and missing Italy.

Through these touching and sometime humorous stories, "Prisoners of 
Paradise" illuminates the profound cultural affinity between Italians 
and Americans, and offers a provocative meditation on the meaning of 
national identity in times of peace and war.