Mumbai, Monk and the Beatles

“Secrets of the Dead” (7 p.m., PBS, check local listings) presents “Mumbai Massacre,” the second TV documentary in a week to examine the terrorist attack on India’s largest city last Nov. 26.

Like HBO’s “Terror in Mumbai,” this film recalls the terrorists’ use of modern communications and the Indian authorities’ ability to eavesdrop on their cell-phone chatter. But “Massacre” puts a special emphasis on the victims’ use of Twitter and other social-media networks to describe their plight and to communicate with and warn loved ones.

• Two documentaries capture 20th-century musicians at the height of their fame, creativity and influence.

“The Jazz Baroness” (7 p.m., HBO2) chronicles the decades-long relationship between modern-jazz pioneer Thelonious Monk and Pannonica “Nica” Rothschild, an heir to one of the world’s richest and most influential banking families. The film mixes archival footage and photographs of their time together in New York in the culturally and politically charged decades following World War II.

Directed by Rothschild’s great niece Hanna, the film includes interviews with friends, musicians and jazz buffs, including Sonny Rollins, Quincy Jones, Thelonious Monk Jr., Roy Haynes, Curtis Fuller, the Duchess of Devonshire and Clint Eastwood, the producer of the documentary “Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser.”

An eccentric woman with more than 300 cats and who served scotch from a teapot, Nica devoted her life to both Monk and the cause of modern jazz. Some speculate that her relationship with Monk (who was married) remained entirely platonic.

But while on her deathbed, more than six years after Monk died, she instructed that her ashes be scattered in the Hudson River, “‘Round Midnight,” a clear reference to Monk’s signature work.

• “The Beatles on Record” (9 p.m., History) chronicles the evolution of the Fab Four as recording artists, presenting rare footage of them in the recording studio, from their earliest songs such as “Love Me Do” (1962) to the completion of their final effort, “Abbey Road,” in 1969. Archival interviews with John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr and their producer George Martin provide all of the film’s narration.

Tonight’s other highlights

• Another animated franchise has become a live-action movie: “Ben Ten: Alien Swarm” (6 p.m., Cartoon Network).

• “Biggest Loser: Where Are They Now?” (7 p.m., NBC) offers progress reports on more than 40 contestants from the first seven seasons.

• Set in the late 1970s, the 2007 drama “Gracie” (7 p.m., CW) follows the true-life story of a young girl’s campaign to allow females to play competitive soccer. Elisabeth Shue, Andrew Shue and Dermot Mulroney star.

• Hotchner confronts the Reaper on the 100th episode of “Criminal Minds” (8 p.m., CBS).

• Will visits a rival coach (Eve) on “Glee” (8 p.m., Fox).

• Luke’s birthday bash gets out of hand on “Modern Family” (8 p.m., ABC).

• Ed monitors his wife’s wasteful ways on “Living with Ed” (8 p.m., Planet Green).