This week PBS has a great schedule of programming featuring political topics current and historical. Highlights include a program on the crisis in Darfur and a look back at Election Day 2004.

Tonight at 9pm, the season premiere of Wide Angle's Heart of Darfur presents an account of what the U.N. Secretary-General has called "the largest humanitarian crisis in the world." Wide Angle examines "the desperation of daily life, from a sprawling Sudanese refugee camp to volatile rebel-held areas seldom reached by Western reporters."

Following Heart of Darfur at 10pm, PBS presents a new program entitled P.O.V Election Day. The program assembles 12 stories -- all of them shot simultaneously on Election Day, November 2, 2004 -- into "an entertaining, inspiring and sometimes unsettling tapestry of citizens determined to make their votes count."