Monday, September 17 at 9 pm on KRCB in the North Bay. Rick Steves travels back a century to learn how fascism rose and then fell in Europe. He traces fascism's history from its roots in the turbulent aftermath of World War I, when masses of angry people rose up, to the rise of charismatic leaders who manipulated that anger, and the totalitarian societies they built. Rick chronicles the brutal measures the leaders used to enforce their ideologies, and discusses the horrific consequences of genocide and total war. And yet despite all this, inspiration can be found by those who resisted. Along the way, Rick visits poignant sights throughout Europe relating to fascism, and talks with Europeans whose families lived through those times.

Wednesday, September 19 at 9 pm on KRCB in the North Bay. A documentary chronicling the 2016 tour of Cuba by Mexican American roots group Los Cenzontles. "Conexiones" captures a unique glimpse into Cuban cultural life during an historic time of openness between the United States and Cuba. Los Cenzontles were granted rare access to perform traditional Mexican music in four cities around Cuba where they engaged with Cuban musicians from a variety of walks of life. There they discovered the richness of Cuban culture and Cuba's deep affection for and fascination with Mexican culture. The film is a poignant statement on the importance of cultural exchange, identity and openness at a time of uncertainty in U.S. and Cuban relations.

Tuesday, September 18 at 7 pm on KPJK in the South Bay. Masked serial killer Fantomas murders the innocent and vanishes, with Inspector Juve always a few steps behind. French directors Claude Chabrol and Jean Luis Bunuel combine realism, fantasy and early '80s camp in these TV versions of the novels that made Fantomas one of the most popular characters in French crime fiction. In French with English subtitles. (Repeats at 10 pm)

Sunday, September 9 at 9:30 pm on KRCB TV in the North Bay. For seven decades foreign correspondent and photojournalist Ruth Gruber didn't just report the news, she made it. Born in 1911 to Russian Jewish immigrants, Ruth Gruber became the youngest Ph.D. in the world before becoming an international journalist at age 24. A fearless trailblazer who defied tradition to become the eyes and conscience of the world, she was the first journalist to enter the Soviet Arctic in 1935, traveled to Alaska as a member of the Roosevelt administration in 1942, escorted Holocaust refugees to America in 1944, covered the Nuremberg trials in 1946, and documented the Palestine-bound Haganah ship Exodus in 1947.