WASHINGTON WEEK

WITH GWEN IFILL FRIDAY, MAY 23 @ 9:00PM TONIGHT: PRESSURE ON SHINSEKI, CYBER SPYING TENSIONS, PRIMARY REVIEW AND THE GREAT SOCIETY AT 50 President Obama expressed outrage this week about allegations of mismanagement at Veterans Administration hospitals around the country and vowed that those responsible would be held accountable. The president defended the leadership of VA Secretary Eric...

NATURE

THE GATHERING SWARMS WEDNESDAY, MAY 21 @ 9:00PM A look at some of the planet’s great gatherings, creatures that come together in inconceivable numbers – sometimes in millions, billions, and even trillions. Included are bats and bees, locust and ants, monarch butterflies in Mexico, 17-year cicada hatches, grunion in the Sea of Cortez and carp in the Mississippi River, sardine runs off the...

NOVA

BOMBING HITLER’S DAMS SUNDAY, MAY 25 @ 5:00PM In 1943 a squadron of Lancaster bombers staged one of the most audacious raids in military history: destroying two gigantic dams in Germany’s industrial heartland and cutting the water supply to arms factories. Their secret weapon? A revolutionary bouncing bomb invented by British engineer Barnes Wallis. Wallis and the pilots of 617...

ESCAPE FROM A NAZI DEATH CAMP

TUESDAY, APRIL 14 @ 7:00PM & 12:00AM This powerful film is told by four of the main survivors Thomas ‘Toivi’ Blatt, Philip Bialowitz, Selma Engel-Wijnberg and former Russian POW Semjon Rozenfled, through their compelling firsthand accounts we discover the true horror of life in Sobibor. Unlike Auschwitz and Dauchau, Sobibor was created purely for extermination. In the space of 17 months...

COMING BACK WITH WES MOORE

MOVING FORWARD THURSDAY, MAY 29 @ 7:00PM Explore the notion of identity, how it’s altered during deployment and altered again on return home. Wes explores the experience of coming back fundamentally changed by the experience of war, and the difficulty of fitting back in. Can you create a new life in your old world? The three episode series tells the story of Wes Moore’s search for answers...