Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat never intended to become a documentarian when he bought his first camera to chronicle the young life of his youngest son Gibreel. But as he documened his sons, he also catches the turmoil around him, with illegal Israeli settlements, destruction of the land in preparations for a wall, and brutality of the invading forces.
He also captured the bravery of his village, protesting the situation. The armed response caused him some equipment failure, hence the title of his Oscar-nominated film, “5 Broken Cameras.”
The film, making its TV debut tonight on “POV” (PBS, 10 p.m., check local listings) provides a clear, humane look at what’s happening in the Middle East with footage that’s amazing – amateur or not.
Back to (mostly) sports after stints doing politics at MSNBC and Current, Keith Olbermann goes back to the World Wide Leader that originally spawned him with the new nightly show “Olbermann” (ESPN2, 11 p.m.). It will have at least one carryover from his political show — the nightly naming of “The Worst Person in the World” — of sports.
A now-forgotten figure of sports reporting is fondly recalled in “Glickman” (HBO, 9 p.m.), the story of pioneering NBA commentator Marty Glickman,whose descriptions became alive on the radio, where he came up with such terms as “the lane,” “the top of the circle” and especially “swish.” He had been an Olympic runner at Hitler’s 1936 games and a football star at Syracuse. Much of the film is a late in life interview conducted with a big voice and a huge bandage on his forehead. When Jerry Stiller shows up as one of the sources, you might think the whole thing is made up.
In another documentary “America vs. Iraq” (National Geographic Channel, 9 p.m.), Dick Cheney, Colin Powell, Gen. David Petraeus and British Prime Minister Tony Blair are all interviewed in the two hour documentary about the war based on a faulty premise.
“Teen Mom 3” (MTV, 10 p.m.) returns for another look at the young mothers first seen in “16 and Pregnant,” who are now occasional tabloid stars. Their biggest problem as the season starts are not the infants, who do not cry as much as they would make you think, but the dim, mumbling boyfriends, with backward baseball caps and no sense of responsibility of fatherhood. Two hours are enough to make you tire of the young families for the whole season.
If you watch it after the replay of Sunday’s fussy, rockless and mostly unfortunate “2013 MTV Music Video Awards” (MTV, 8 p.m.) you will despair for the young.
A winning team splits the $500,000 prize money in the finale of “Get Out Alive with Bear Grylls” (NBC, 9 p.m.).
When the reunion special of “The Real Housewives of Orange County” (Bravo, 8 p.m.) reaches Part 3, maybe it’s gone on a little too long.
Injuries can set a dancer back, as tonight’s episode of “Breaking Pointe” (The CW, 9 p.m.) shows.
A golf hustler is murdered on the fourth season finale comes for “The Glades” (A&E, 9 p.m.).
A second season finale comes for the cowboy yarn “Longmire” (A&E, 10 p.m.).
Later comes the season finale of the boat reality series “Below Deck” (Bravo, 10 p.m.).
“Blood, Lies & Alibis” (Investigation Discovery, 9 and 10 p.m.) is a pretty good title for one of their true crime shows.
The writers of “Game of Thrones” talk about putting together shows on this week’s “Writers’ Room” (Sundance, 10 p.m.). Last week’s show about the “New Girl” writers rollows at 10:30 p.m.
A five hour marathon of “The Vineyard” (ABC Family, 6 p.m.) catches you up with that new England soap.
Julia starts digging around “Under the Dome” (CBS, 10 p.m.).
A couple of other broadcast scripted shows are still going on: “Siberia” (NBC, 10 p.m.) and “Mistresses” (ABC, 10 p.m.).
Looks like no episodes at all of “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” and “The Colbert Report” until after Labor Day. Tonight, in their place, is a rerun of “The Comedy Central Roast of Larry the Cable Guy” (Comedy Central, 11 p.m.).
Jeanne Crain, best known for her Oscar nominated performance in “Pinky” (8 p.m.) is featured all day on Turner Classic Movies with “The Fastest Gun Alive” (6 a.m.), “Guns of the Timberland” (7:45 a.m.), “Twenty Plus Two” (9:30 a.m.), “Margie” (11:15 a.m.), “You Were Meant for Me” (1 p.m.), “Apartment for Peggy” (2:45 p.m.), “The Model and the Marriage Broker” (4:30 p.m.), “Dangerous Crossing” (6:30 p.m.), “Take Care of My Little Girl” (10 p.m.), “Leave Her to Heaven” (midnight), “The Fan” (2 a.m.) and “Skyjacked” (4 a.m.).
Daytime Talk
Kelly & Michael: Adam Sandler, Miranda Cosgrove, Jillian Michaels (rerun). The View: Cate Blanchett, Jeff Sotzing, J. Cole, Val Warner (rerun). The Talk: Jennifer Aniston, Martyn Lawrence Bullard, Marie Osmond (rerun). Ellen DeGeneres: Hayden Panettiere, Ed Sheeran (rerun). Wendy Williams: Michael Urie, Teresa Guidice (rerun).
Late Talk
David Letterman: Patrick Dempsey, Amy Sedaris. Jay Leno: Jeff daniels, Sherri Shepherd, Quinn Sullivan. Jimmy Kimmel: Ashton Kutcher, Melanie Griffith, Big Sean (rerun). Jimmy Fallon: Seth Meyers, Lily Collins, 2 Chainz (rerun). Craig Ferguson: Seth Rogen, Elisabeth Moss (rerun). Carson Daly: Curtis Stone, White Lung (rerun). Conan O’Brien: Jesse Eisenberg, J.J. Abrams, Thirty Seconds to Mars (rerun). Chelsea Handler: Eric Bana, Brad Wollack, April Richardson, Dov Davidoff.