WASHINGTON WEEK

with GWEN IFILL FRIDAY, AUGUST 23 @ 9:00PM President Obama returned from his New England vacation to a myriad of overseas and national security issues. In Egypt, the interim government continues its crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood amidst the release of former President Hosni Mubarak from prison. He still faces a retrial in connection with the deaths of protestors during the Egyptian...

POV

THE LAW IN THESE PARTS MONDAY, AUGUST 19 @ 11:00PM In The Law in These Parts, acclaimed Israeli filmmaker Ra’anan Alexandrowicz has pulled off a tour-de-force examination of the system of military administration used by Israel since the Six Day War of 1967 — featuring the system’s leading creators. In a series of thoughtful and candid interviews, Israeli judges, prosecutors and...

NATURE

OUTBACK PELICANS SUNDAY, JUNE 8  @ 7:00PM The Australian pelican is built for long-distance travel. One of the largest pelicans in the pelican family, with a light skeleton and a wingspan of over eight feet, it can be airborne all day and deep into the night, riding far and high on rising thermals. When rare weather systems bring heavy rains, huge numbers of Australian pelicans abandon the sea...

MASTERPIECE MYSTERY!

THE LADY VANISHES SUNDAY, AUGUST 18 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM The Lady Vanishespacks in the suspense and style when Iris Carr, a beautiful young socialite traveling alone, befriends a kindly English middle-aged woman but wakes from a nap to find her missing – and all the strangers surrounding her denying that the woman was ever there at all! This closed-door mystery classic investigates the...

WASHINGTON WEEK

FRIDAY, AUGUST 16 @ 9:00PM THIS WEEK: OBAMA CONDEMNS EGYPT VIOLENCE, CHANGING MINIMUM SENTENCE POLICIES, & 2016 POLITICAL PREVIEW Day-long clashes between Egypt’s military and supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi have left hundreds dead in Cairo. Despite the escalating violence, the Muslim Brotherhood has vowed to continue its protests over the army’s overthrow of the...