Picks and Pans Review: A Touch of Churchill, a Touch of Hitler: the Life of Cecil Rhodes

UPDATED 07/20/1981 at 01:00 AM EDT • Originally published 07/20/1981 at 01:00 AM EDT

PBS (check local listings)

Nineteenth-century English adventurer Cecil Rhodes, creator of the scholarships that bear his name, made a fortune in diamond mining by founding and bloodily exploiting Rhodesia. Disappointingly, the program is more an African history lesson than an insightful biography.

THURSDAY, JULY 16