Winter 2016 Newsletter

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Last March, the tumultuous relationship between Benjamin Netanyahu and Barack Obama reached
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a new low. Over White House objections, the Israeli Prime Minister traveled to Washington to attack
S1 the President’s signature foreign policy legacy, the Iran nuclear deal. FRONTLINE traces the stormy
6 history of the United States-Israeli relationship through the eyes of Obama and Netanyahu, two
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men with fundamentally different views of the world. For Obama, his election in 2009 provided
S a chance “to recast the United States as a friend of the Islamic world,” says White House insider
Sandy Berger. But, for Netanyahu, Obama’s vision of the Middle East threatened Israel’s existence.
Told through riveting footage and interviews with political insiders in Jerusalem and Washington,
Screen programs
Netanyahu at War provides the essential context needed to understand the ongoing feud
online at between Netanyahu and Obama and how it could shape the future of the Middle East. 2X60 HD
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Walt Disney offers an unprecedented look at the man who created a
world and built an empire. Uniquely adept at art as well as commerce,
Walt Disney was a master filmmaker who harnessed the power of
technology to tell stories of outsiders struggling for acceptance and
belonging, while questioning the conventions of class and authority.
As Disney rose to prominence and gained financial security, his work On November 15, 1915, Albert Einstein published his greatest
became increasingly celebratory of the American way of life that made work—his general theory of relativity. This theory transformed our
his unlikely success possible. A polarizing figure—though true believers understanding of nature’s laws and the entire history of the cosmos,
vastly outnumber his critics—Disney’s achievements are indisputable. reaching back from the present moment to the origin of time itself.
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE examines Disney’s complex life and continuing Now, NOVA tells the inside story of Einstein’s masterpiece. From
legacy, featuring rare archival footage from the Disney vaults, interviews the first spark of an idea to the discovery of the expanding universe,
with biographers and historians, and the animators and designers who the Big Bang, black holes and dark energy, Inside Einstein’s Mind
160468 helped turn his dreams into reality. Walt Disney is both an inspiring story uncovers the inspired insights and brilliant breakthroughs of “the
and a cautionary tale about the price of an empire. 2x112, 4x54 HD perfect theory,” perhaps the greatest science story of all time. 1x53 HD
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2015 ANNUAL NEWS & DOCUMENTARY EMMY® AWARD WINNERS
United States of Secrets
Winner of Best Documentary and Outstanding Coverage of
Firestone and the Warlord
a Current News Story-Long Form, United States of Secrets goes
behind the headlines to reveal the dramatic inside story of how the Winner of Outstanding Investigative Journalism Long Form and
U.S. government came to monitor and collect the communications of Outstanding Research, Firestone and the Warlord investigates the
millions of people around the world and the lengths they went to as secret relationship between the American tire company Firestone and
they tried to hide this massive surveillance program from the public. the infamous Liberian warlord Charles Taylor. The FRONTLINE film shines
Divided into two parts, it is the definitive history of domestic new light on the country’s history and its civil war and raises provocative
surveillance in a post-9/11 world. Part political thriller and part spy questions about corporate responsibility, accountability, and the ethical
novel, the FRONTLINE series is gripping viewing for those who want ramifications of doing business in conflict zones. 1x83 HD
to understand the context of the Snowden affair—and what it means
for the world. 1x115 and 1x54 HD
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the height of the Great Depression, their gang
A History Projections of America
evolved from petty thieves to nationally known
Delving into the rich history of one of the world’s bank robbers and murderers, joining the ranks As Allied forces liberated Western Europe in
preeminent ballet companies, Emmy® and of other gangsters of the era like John Dillinger, WWII, the military campaign was accompanied
Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Ric Burns Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby Face Nelson—so called by a vast propaganda effort that centered around
combines intimate rehearsal footage, virtuoso “public enemies” who captured the imagination 26 short documentaries about American life
performances and interviews with American of Americans laid low by the Depression. targeted at the newly liberated populations.
Ballet Theatre’s key figures to chronicle the rise Newsreels across the country flashed images The “Projections of America” films presented
of the company from its earliest days as a small, of a pixyish Bonnie, handgun on her hip, and American stories of cowboys and oilmen,
financially struggling collective to its pinnacle as handsome Clyde, with his custom suits and immigrants and school children—capturing both
one of the most respected and revered dance Browning automatic rifles, turning them into the the optimism and the messiness of American
companies in the world. Filmed using Phantom underworld’s dark prince and princess of crime. democracy. These films were created by
Flex cameras, which capture up to 2,500 frames In reality, Bonnie and Clyde grew up in the slums politically engaged filmmakers, who, while fighting
per second and bring to life even the smallest of West Dallas and had little in common with their tyranny abroad, also wanted to fundamentally
of movements, the breathtaking footage brings glamorous media images. Their two-year crime change America itself. The story is told through
a new dimension to the understanding of the spree ended when the couple was betrayed by rare archival materials, including pristine new
extraordinary efforts made in the perfection a friend and shot dead at a police roadblock in transfers of the propaganda films interwoven
of form. 1x104 HD Louisiana on May 23, 1934. 1x52 HD with interviews with filmmakers, original audience
members and film critics. 1x53 HD
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HISTORY LIFESTYLE

CURRENT AFFAIRS
The Perfect Crime
The murder of a fourteen-year-old boy by two
wealthy college students was shocking enough,
their motive more so. Nathan Leopold and
Richard Loeb had planned to abduct and kill a
child at random to prove they were smart enough
to get away with it. Set in 1920’s Chicago—a city
of gin joints, gangsters, and political corruption—
The Perfect Crime tells a story that set off CO
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Black Panthers: Vanguard of
the Revolution
The rise and fall of the Black Panther Party
during the 1960s and beyond is a story of a
growing pride in black culture, and more militant
demands for justice and racial equality, with a
cast of larger-than-life personalities including:
Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, Stokely Carmichael,
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Outbreak Blood Lions and police brutality. The Black Panthers does
FRONTLINE investigates the vivid, inside story of not hesitate to critique its subject, nor does it
A journey to the heart of darkness that lies within
how the Ebola outbreak began and why it wasn’t shy away from judging the corrupt activities of
the predator breeding and canned lion hunting
stopped before it was too late. With exclusive J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI or the countless shoot-
industries in South Africa, Blood Lions follows
access to key global decision-makers and health outs, raids and arrests that were the response of
Ian Michler, a South African environmental
responders, and gripping accounts of victims local police. It is a history that needs to be told to
journalist and safari operator, and Rick Swazey,
from the slums of Monrovia to the jungles of understand today’s incendiary racial landscape.
an American hunter, as they explore the reality
Guinea, Outbreak exposes tragic missteps in 2x54, 1x114 HD
of these multi-million dollar businesses. 1x52 HD
the response to the epidemic. 1x54 HD
UNDERSTANDING OUR PLANET
Making North America Earth: The Inside Story
For the first time, NOVA reveals how startlingly different North America’s Trace the geologic story of our home planet, beginning with its formation four-
ancient past was compared to today—giant marine reptiles once swam over and-a-half billion years ago and continuing with its evolution to the present.
the cornfields of Kansas, Central Park was part of a mountain range as high Shot in top geologic hot spots on all seven continents and interspersed with
as the Himalayas, and gigantic super-eruptions almost tore the continent in footage of earthquakes and volcanoes, this film features a diverse group of
two just before the dinosaurs rose to rule the land. To visualize the leading geologists who reveal the latest thinking about how the Earth works.
vanished landscapes and the hidden forces that shaped them, the series With recent news coverage of major earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic
features live-action CGI animation sequences that lift the lid off of North eruptions, people are asking whether or not Earth’s natural systems are
America, stripping away the ancient rock layers to reveal the past. 3x53 HD undergoing a period of intense upheaval. This film lends scientific perspectives
in an attempt to answer that very question and reveal the latest understanding
Life’s Rocky Start
of the 4.5 billion-year-old Earth. 1x57 HD
Four and a half billion years ago, the young earth was a chaos of meteorite
impacts, volcanoes and lightning flashing through a thin atmosphere. With Clockwork Climate (working title)
no protective ozone layer, ultraviolet radiation sterilized Earth’s hot, bleak According to a survey from August 2012, 77% of the world’s population is
surface. Then, in a process that has puzzled scientists for decades, the first worried about the future of the climate. Experiments in deliberate climate
microbes took hold. In Life’s Rocky Start, dynamic geophysicist Robert engineering, also known as geo-engineering, are multiplying the world over
Hazen advances a startling and counterintuitive idea—that the rocks and the United States, Canada, the European Union, China and Russia are
beneath our feet were essential to jump-starting life. As Hazen journeys to all funding evaluations of these techniques’ efficacy against global warming.
spectacular locations from Hawaii to Morocco, we discover that as microbes Climate Clockwork introduces the scientists, businesspeople and political
flourished and took over the biosphere, hundreds of minerals we know and decision-makers who are spearheading this research and reveals its historical
depend on today were born. 1x60 HD background using spectacular research archives, including lab simulations and
field tests. 1x52 HD
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SCIENCE

THROUGH THE
CyberWar Threat
DECADES The global cyberwar is heating up and the
stakes are no longer limited to the virtual
world of computers—now, cyber weapons can
Mary Tyler inflict physical damage. Highly sophisticated,
stealthy computer programs such as the
Moore:
notorious Stuxnet worm can destroy the control
A Celebration
systems that regulate everything from food
As the first independent factories to gas pipelines, power plants and
career woman on chemical facilities—even the elevators in our
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her work as a dancer and her early films
(including one where she played Elvis Presley’s
love interest). 1x56 HD CURRENT AFFAIRS SCIENCE

The Girls in Invisible Universe Revealed
the Band Twenty-five years ago, NASA launched one of
the most ambitious experiments in the history
In the 1930s and ’40s,
of astronomy: the Hubble Space Telescope.
female musicians
NOVA tells the remarkable story of the telescope
toured the country
that forever changed our understanding of
in glamorous all-girl
the cosmos and our place in it. This single
bands, while others
telescope has helped astronomers pinpoint the
played side-by-side with
age of the universe, revealed the birthplace of
their male counterparts. But by the mid-1950s,
stars and planets, advanced our understanding
female jazz musicians had disappeared from the
of dark energy and cosmic expansion and
music scene. The Girls in the Band reveals the
uncovered black holes lurking at the heart of
poignant, untold stories of female jazz and big
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decades, yet continued to persevere, inspire American Terrorist ARTS & CULTURE
and elevate their talents in a field that seldom FRONTLINE investigates American-born terrorist
welcomed them. 1x62, 1x88 HD David Coleman Headley, who helped plan the
Jerome deadly 2008 siege on Mumbai. The film reveals
how secret electronic surveillance missed
Robbins:
catching the Mumbai plotters, and how Headley
Something to planned another Charlie Hebdo-like assault
Dance About against a Danish newspaper. Building on the
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artist and features excerpts from his personal
Once Europe’s most promising and enlightened
journals, archival performance footage and
never-before-seen rehearsal recordings, as well CURRENT AFFAIRS prince, Henry VIII squandered Britain’s riches
Terror in Little Saigon on futile wars and tore apart the centuries-old
as interviews with Robbins himself and over
religious certainties of his people. Decades of
forty of his colleagues. Despite his professional Searching for the assassins behind a reign
bloodshed and religious persecution would
successes, Robbins’ most important legacy was of terror that targeted Vietnamese-American
follow his reign, just as tens of thousands of
the humanity of his art. “Give me something journalists, FRONTLINE and ProPublica
people were executed as a direct result of both
to dance about and I’ll dance it,” he once told investigate a series of unsolved murders and
his policies and his personal vendettas. Inside
Irving Berlin. As this film shows, in the theater attacks, uncovering a trail from American cities to
the Court of Henry VIII pulls back the veil to
and in dance, he did that over and over again. jungles in Southeast Asia. 1x60 HD
expose the vicious rivalries and conspiracies that
1x120 HD
characterized his court, where a new breed of
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EXPLORING FOOD
SCIENCE, NATURAL HISTORY

Moveable Feast with
Fine Cooking Season 3
Come along on a mouthwatering ride and
catch the spirit of pop-up cooking events with
Moveable Feast with Fine Cooking. Emmy®-
nominated for Outstanding Culinary Series
and winner of both Telly and TASTE Awards,
Moveable Feast with Fine Cooking is hosted by
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Are You Smarter Than
I’ll Have What Phil’s Having Jacques Pépin:
Your Pet?
Expect the unexpected as host Phil Rosenthal, Heart and Soul
From counting canines to safe-cracking Emmy® Award-winning producer and creator of
Jacques Pépin brings you his final series
cockatoos, Are You Smarter Than Your Pet? is Everybody Loves Raymond, brings his unique
with more than 100 recipes demonstrating
packed with entertaining revelations and mind- brand of humor to his search for the world’s
his impeccable technique. His most personal
boggling experiments that shed light on animal best food. I’ll Have What Phil’s Having is an
program yet, Heart & Soul showcases the
intelligence and make us see our own brains unforgettable six-part food and travel series
warmth, wit and mastery of a culinary icon as
in an entirely new way. Testing the assumption that dishes up sublime fare bursting onto the
he revisits his most popular dishes. Long-time
that humans are the smartest species on Earth, international culinary scene, hidden delicacies
fans will enjoy Jacques’ inventive, sophisticated
a range of animals are pitted against people in and a hearty dose of laughs. In each episode a
menus while the busy modern cook will
special tasks. Each episode challenges humans renowned chef takes Phil to a world-class food
appreciate budget-friendly ingredients and
and animals to incredible feats in a showdown city—including Barcelona, Tokyo and Paris—and
time-saving techniques. From classic French
between the intelligence of humans and the shows him exactly where to eat. 6x54 HD
dishes to creative new menus that vie to be
untapped abilities of animals operating outside
his crowning glory, it’s a grand finale you won’t
of their normal zone. The results are surprising, A Chef’s Life Season 3
want to miss! 26x30 HD
hilarious and often extraordinary. 2x44 HD
Join Chef Vivian Howard’s personal and culinary
journey from the top restaurants in New York
SCIENCE, HUMAN INTEREST
to her return to Eastern North Carolina as she
explores the rich bounty of farm fresh cooking,
family and community. Each episode follows
Vivian out of the kitchen and into cornfields,
strawberry patches and hog farms as she hunts
down the ingredients that inspire her seasonal
menus. All three seasons: 40x25 HD
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EL E.O. Wilson: Of Ants and Men chronicles
Cancer: The Emperor of All the famed biologist and Pulitzer Prize-
Maladies winning author’s lifelong love for the natural
world and his groundbreaking research.
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by
Wilson’s work on ant communication led to
Siddhartha Mukherjee, this film presented by
his remarkable studies of advanced social
Ken Burns and directed by Barak Goodman
behavior in animals, and when his studies
tells the story of cancer, from its first description
turned to human behavior, the controversial
in an ancient Egyptian scroll to the gleaming
discipline of sociobiology was founded.
laboratories of modern research institutions. It
E.O. Wilson: Of Ants and Men culminates
interweaves a sweeping historical narrative with
with his work in the great national park of
intimate stories about contemporary patients,
Mozambique, Gorongosa, which brings
and an investigation into the latest scientific
together the great themes of his life and
breakthroughs that may have brought us to the
work: nature and humanity’s place in it.
brink of lasting cures. 6x54, 3x56 HD
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In Defense Of Food three million are their husbands, wives, sons and
a recording machine for the first time, and the
daughters. The Homefront uses unprecedented
filmmakers follow the scouts’ trail to rediscover What should we eat? Until the early 20th century,
access to soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen to
the families whose music was recorded: early the answer to this question was simply dictated
create a series of intimate portraits of America’s
blues, country, gospel, Hawaiian, Cajun and by what was grown nearby, readily available
military families. This revealing two-hour
folk, without which there would be no rock, pop, and unspoiled. But 100 years later, the struggle
documentary special tells stories of pride and
R&B or hip hop. The remarkable lives of seminal over what to eat has become one of the most
patriotism, sacrifice and resilience. 1x115 HD
musicians materialize in previously unseen film complicated, confounding and urgent battles
footage, unpublished photographs and exclusive facing the world. Based on Michael Pollan’s
HISTORY
interviews with some of the last living witnesses best-selling book, In Defense of Food shows
The Mine Wars
to that era. The American Epic Sessions features how a combination of uncertain and incomplete
performances by Alabama Shakes, The Avett science, politicians and clever marketing At the dawn of the 20th century, coal was the
Brothers, Beck, Ana Gabriel, Elton John, Los campaigns have shaped the world’s eating habits fuel that powered America. Yet few Americans
Lobos, Taj Mahal, Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, in ways that have made us continuously less outside of coal country thought much about the
Nas, Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard, Jack healthy. From crowded American supermarkets price paid by the men who blasted the black
White and many more as they record straight to the vast plains of Tanzania, In Defense of rock from underground mines and hauled it
to wax, using all the original microphones, Food examines how the modern Western diet, to the surface. The biggest civil insurrection in
amplifiers and equipment from the 1920s. especially as it has evolved over just the past United States history, the Mine Wars provided
3x60 and 1x150 HD few decades, is doing serious damage to our a dramatic stage for the struggle to deliver coal
health. 1x54 HD from the deep, dark mine shafts to the surface.
1x120 HD
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The Trouble with Chicken For 25 years, FRONTLINE producer Ken Dornstein has been haunted
Every year, Salmonella causes more by the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland—the
hospitalizations and deaths than any other food terrorist act that killed 270 people, including his older brother David.
borne illness, with about one in four pieces of Now, in this emotional and suspenseful film, Dornstein sets out to
raw chicken contaminated with Salmonella today. find the men responsible for one of the worst attacks on Americans
Why isn’t the U.S. food safety system stopping the before 9/11. From the ruins and chaos of post-Qaddafi Libya,
threat? FRONTLINE investigates how and why the Dornstein hunts for clues to the identities and whereabouts of the
standards and laws around Salmonella have failed suspects, who he tracks for almost five years across the Middle East
to keep up with the increasing danger posed by and Europe in this real-life spy thriller. 3x60, 1x90 HD
some strains of the bacteria 1x54 HD FRONTLINE
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SPOTLIGHT ON
THE MIDDLE EAST
The Taliban Hunters
Last December’s attack on the Army Public
School in Peshawar when the Taliban killed
145 people, 132 of them children, was the
most public moment in a war that has been
growing in intensity for the last five years.
Taliban fighters have moved into Pakistan’s
cities in strength, threatening to bring chaos
to the streets. The greatest prize in this war is
Karachi, Pakistan’s commercial center, where
the terrorists now control entire districts The Rise Of Isis
and bombings are a regular occurrence, FRONTLINE’s The Rise of ISIS is a major, in-depth
financed through kidnappings, assassinations, investigation of the brutal terrorist group’s
drugs, gambling and even prostitution. Ijaz ascent, drawing on in-depth interviews with Iraqi
leads a group of around 100 dedicated cops politicians, and American policymakers and
who take the fight to the Taliban, carrying out military leaders to explore and explain how ISIS
lightning raids on Taliban strongholds in the developed into what one interviewee calls “the
city. Ijaz’s team has become known as “The Al Qaeda that Osama bin Laden only dreamed of
Taliban Hunters,” the front-line commandos building.” The film traces how ISIS gained
against a ruthless enemy. 1x49 HD strength in Syria, how the group is funded, how
they operate and how, city by city, from Ramadi
Inside Assad’s Syria
to Fallujah to Mosul, ISIS swept across Iraq—
FRONTLINE correspondent Martin Smith seizing territory, recording and broadcasting
goes inside Syria to report from government- mass executions and drawing recruits from an
controlled areas as war rages. With on-the- estimated 80 countries. 1x53 HD
ground reporting and firsthand accounts from
Syrians caught in the crisis, this film shines
new light on the ongoing conflict. 1x54 HD
COURTESY OF ALI ALMASHHADANI
HUMAN INTEREST HISTORY

SCIENCE

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Building the World’s Fastest
group of evangelicals make a dramatic arrival killer known as “Son of Sam.” Lightning strikes
to conduct a carefully scripted religious retreat, Clipper Ship cut off electricity to the entire metropolitan
and five felons, handpicked by the warden, join area, plunging some seven million people into
Following every step of the process over two
this “encounter with Christ.” Can these misfits— darkness. By the time the lights went back
years, filmmakers capture the building of a
a reformed gang-banger, a twitchy jock, a on more than a day later, 2,000 businesses
mighty clipper ship—from the first computer
narcissistic rock guitarist, a murderer turned self- had been looted, 4,000 people arrested and
generated designs through a hair-raising
made theologian and a former college heartthrob firefighters had battled more than 1,000 fires.
launch, to the day when this three-masted
athlete—find redemption, or will the experience Told through the memories of ordinary New
giant, christened the Shabab Oman II, hoists
do little to change these men? Can religion keep Yorkers who lived through the events, Blackout
her 29 sails for the first time. 1x45 HD
these convicts from almost inevitably returning explores what happened on the night the lights
to lock-up? 1x57 HD went out. 1x53 HD
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Dick Cavett’s Vietnam CURRENT AFFAIRS

On the 40th anniversary of the Fall of
Saigon, Dick Cavett’s Vietnam reexamines
the conflict of the Vietnam War through the
prism of interviews conducted by the iconic
host of The Dick Cavett Show. Those
interviews, combined with archival footage,
network news broadcasts and newly filmed
interviews with Cavett and other experts
provides fresh insight and perspective on
this controversial chapter of American
history. 1x54 HD
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gripping and all-consuming. Dick Cavett’s Last Days of the Drug Wars
Watergate is an intensely personal, intimate
Demand for drugs in America has never been
and entertaining look back at Watergate and
higher. Twenty-three million Americans are
the historic resignation of President Richard
abusing drugs, and overdoses kill 40,000
Milhous Nixon. With exclusive access to the
people a year—more than car accidents. Half of
archive of the show, Dick Cavett’s Watergate
the country’s prison population is serving time
documents the scandal in the words of the
for drug offenses, and despite the hundreds
people who lived it: the botched burglary
of billions spent on enforcement, drugs on the
at the Democratic National Headquarters,
street are cheaper than ever. But now, the United
the must-see TV of the daily Congressional
States may be turning a corner. Confronted with
Watergate hearings and the ongoing behind-
an unprecedented heroin epidemic, officials in
the-scenes battle between the White House
Washington are reconsidering their broken drug
and The Dick Cavett Show. 1x55 HD
policy. This two-hour FRONTLINE special looks
at innovative public health programs attempting
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to deal with America’s drug problem and follows
four hardcore drug users as they navigate a
shifting landscape 2x60, 1x120 HD
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The Great Math Mystery Caring for Mom & Dad Chasing Pluto
NOVA leads viewers on a mathematical People are living longer than ever before, After a nine-year journey of three billion miles,
mystery tour—a provocative exploration of and seventy-five million baby boomers are the NEW HORIZONS spacecraft finally got a
math’s astonishing power across the centuries, entering their retirement years at a rate of detailed look at Pluto, the strange, icy world
discovering math’s signature in the swirl of a 10,000 a day. The US is not prepared for this at the very edge of our solar system. NEW
nautilus shell, the whirlpool of a galaxy and the unprecedented demographic shift—and the HORIZONS has provided the first close look
spiral in the center of a sunflower. Astrophysicist question Americans are now facing is: who will at a vast realm of icy bodies lurking beyond
and writer Mario Livio, along with a colorful cast care for this aging population when they can no Neptune, relics of the earliest days of the solar
of mathematicians, physicists and engineers, longer care for themselves? Caring for Mom & system’s formation. NOVA’s cameras were there
follow math from Pythagoras to Einstein and Dad offers an intimate look at the issues facing to witness the moment, showing Pluto’s rocky
beyond, all leading to the ultimate riddle: is math family caregivers who are out on the front lines surface in unprecedented detail and learning
an invention or a discovery? Humankind’s clever struggling to balance work, families and caring new secrets about other alien worlds at the far
trick, or the language of the universe? The Great for their parents. 1x54 HD limits of our solar system. 1x53 HD
Math Mystery ponders why math works so well
when decoding the universe. 1x53 HD
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Nuclear Meltdown Disaster
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pandemonium broke out. Murder of a President
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this multifarious band of English Protestants
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Obama at War
Veteran FRONTLINE producer Martin Smith NEWLY
(Obama’s War, The Rise of ISIS) examines the
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Obama administration’s complicated struggle
to deal with the deadly civil war in Syria, which,
in 2015, is in its fifth year—and explores how
the accompanying ascent of ISIS has raised
the stakes. Drawing on interviews with key
military and diplomatic leaders, Obama at War
is an intense look at the heated debates within
the administration about when and how to get
involved in Syria. 1x54 HD
HISTORY

The Ornament of the World
(working title)
Although the history of Medieval Spain began
over a thousand years ago, its lessons about
The Civil War
faith, tolerance, fear and exclusion resonate
strongly today. Based on Maria Rosa Menocal’s The Civil War, the Emmy® Award-winning series
best-selling book, The Ornament of the World from Ken Burns, is now fully restored to high
spans a period of 800 years, exploring the definition, achieving the optimal picture quality
complexities and contradictions of a time originally intended. Hailed as a film masterpiece
when Muslims, Christians and Jews coexisted, and landmark in historical storytelling, Ken Burns’s
collaborated, competed, fought and flourished epic documentary brings to life America’s most
on the Iberian Peninsula, forging a common destructive—and defining—conflict. Here is the saga
cultural identity that frequently transcended their of celebrated generals and ordinary soldiers, a heroic
religious differences—an extraordinary chapter and transcendent president and a country that had to
in world history that has come to be known as divide itself in two in order to become one. 7x52 HD
Convivencia. 2x60 HD
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Biology 2.0: When Biology Through a Lens Darkly: Black Growing Up Trans
Becomes Synthetic Photographers and the Just a generation ago, it was adults, not kids, who
After the dramatic advances in genomics, 21st Emergence of a People changed genders. But today, many children are
transitioning too—with new medical options and
century biology is heading for a revolution:
Through a Lens Darkly is the first documentary
at younger and younger ages. FRONTLINE takes
synthetic biology. The consequences are huge,
to explore the role of photography in shaping
viewers on an intimate journey inside this new
but the potential applications are promising.
the identity, aspirations and social emergence
frontier—where it’s now possible for kids who
From the production of energy to new bio-
of African Americans from slavery to the present.
feel they were born in the wrong body to never
materials through the environment and medicine,
The film brings to light previously hidden and
have to go through the puberty of their biological
synthetic biology could usher in an era of greater
largely unknown images by African American
sex. Told from the perspective of parents, doctors
efficiency, cheaper costs and lower pollution.
photographers dating back to the very beginning
and the kids themselves, the documentary takes
Biology 2.0 discovers what nature would never
of photography. These images show a more
a powerful look at this new generation, exploring
have made and what man is in the process of
complex and nuanced view of American culture
the medical possibilities, struggles and choices
creating. 3x60 HD
and society while exploring the ways African
transgender kids and their families face today.
HISTORY Americans continue to use the medium as a 1x82 HD
tool for social change. 1x88 HD
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prison walls of Alcatraz and set off on the waters
Changing the Face of
of the San Francisco Bay in a homemade raft. Up In the years immediately following his single term
until this day, it is not known whether or not the in the White House, Jimmy Carter was frequently Architecture
three of them made it to land or if they ended up cited as one of the country’s most ineffectual For the first time in history, women are designing
somewhere out in the Pacific. Now, for the first leaders. His presidency was dramatically blown our world. A new generation of women are
time, three Dutch scientists are using their work off course by inflation, recession, a fractured creating some of today’s most iconic architectural
on flood risk assessment and mapping tides to administration and a humbling hostage crisis. designs—they are the rising stars in what has
prove that the three men could have successfully But in the years since, Carter has fashioned his been an all-male industry and they are literally
escaped, but only if their timing was perfect and resurrection through almost superhuman effort, and figuratively changing the landscape. Making
specific factors were in place. Surviving Alcatraz recasting himself as a giant of moral leadership. Space: Five Women Changing the Face of
uses modern science, recreations and archival Jimmy Carter will track the ambitions of a boy his Architecture brings to the screen the personal
material to tell the story of one of history’s father called “hot shot” from his childhood in rural journeys and outstanding designs of Annabelle
greatest, most mysterious prison escapes, Georgia, through his turbulent years in the Oval Selldorf of New York, Farshid Moussavi of
establishing for the very first time that escape Office to his post-presidential career as a world London, Odile Decq of Paris, Marianne McKenna
was entirely possible. 1x60 HD statesman. Part One 1x84, Part Two 1x89 SD of Toronto, and Kathryn Gustafson of Seattle,
Washington, D.C. and London. 1x50 HD
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