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"CMA Music Festival" (9 p.m., CBS) features highlights of "Country Music's Biggest Party," a four-day festival held in June. Included are performances by Brooks & amp; Dunn, Martina McBride, Uncle Kracker and others.
The name says almost all of it: "A Program about Unusual Buildings & amp; Other Roadside Stuff" (9 p.m., PBS) offers a glimpse at the oddities that dot America's offbeat byways. An enormous old water tower is the world's Largest Catsup Bottle in Collinsville, Ill. A Kentucky drugstore is actually shaped like a giant mortar and pestle. And a five-story, open-mouthed "Big Muskie" houses the National Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame and Museum in Hayward, Wis. Producer/narrator Rick Sebak also focuses on the people who take care of such places, which Sebak likens to both landmarks and national treasures.
A Jewish athlete who trained for the 1936 Olympics in Berlin and was used by Nazi Germany as a false symbol of equality is profiled in "Hitler's Pawn," (10 p.m., HBO) a documentary. Margaret Lambert, who was born Gretel Bergmann in Germany in 1914, excelled in the high jump and expected to be part of the Summer Games in her homeland. In the film, she revisits Germany, her hometown athletic films and reunites with a German teammate who had been told that injuries sidelined Lambert, not Nazi hatred.
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