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"Pride" (8 p.m., A & amp;E) is a story of young lions coming of age that's told through footage obtained largely through a "boulder-cam" that got close to the big cats in the wild. But since the lions in the film speak with human voices -- including those of Kate Winslet, Rupert Graves, Helen Mirren and John Hurt -- it's not strictly a documentary.
Meryl Streep -- nominee for 13 Oscars and a winner for her roles in "Sophie's Choice" and "Kramer vs. Kramer" -- is being honored by the American Film Institute for her work. Robert De Niro, Goldie Hawn, Robert Redford and others pay tribute to Streep at "2004 AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Meryl Streep" (9 p.m., USA), a gala taped June 10 in Los Angeles.
More history, more mysteries are on tap for the second season of PBS' "History Detectives" (9 p.m., PBS Channels 45 & amp; 49). Revealing the historical significance of artifacts, buildings and legends from across America, each of 12 hour-long episodes tackles three unanswered mysteries. Among those in the season premiere: Was a New Jersey home designed and built by Thomas Edison -- unrecognized up to now for architectural skills -- as the home's current resident thinks? And what about a pipe owned by a "History Detective" viewer, said to have been given to her ancestor, an Indian agent, by the warrior Chief Red Cloud more than a century ago: Would he have made such a gesture toward a U.S. government official?