WITH GWEN IFILL

FRIDAY, MAY 29 @ 9:00PM

Tonight on Washington Week: Justice Department Probe of Police Practices and 2016: Sanders, Santorum & Pataki Jump In

Meanwhile, the Justice Department and the city of Cleveland have reached an agreement to change the city’s policing practices and the way the police department investigates complaints against itself.

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BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

ANDRIS NELSONS’ INAUGURAL CONCERT

SATURDAY, MAY 30 @ 6:00PM

The concert opens fittingly with Wagner’s Tannhäuser Overture—the work that first inspired a five-year-old Nelsons to a life in music—and closes with Respighi’s spectacular orchestral showcase, “Pines of Rome.”

The program selections shine a special focus on this exciting new collaboration between conductor and orchestra, and also include Wagner’s Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde, with Opolais; and the Intermezzo from Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana.

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MY BIONIC PET

WEDNESDAY, MAY 27 @ 6:00PM & 11:00PM

The animals of the world may increasingly need our help with big issues like preserving habitat or species conservation. But sometimes individual animals need our help as well. Left disabled without fins, flippers, beaks, or tails because of disease, accidents, or even human cruelty, these unfortunate creatures need what amounts to a miracle if they are to survive. Luckily for them, sometimes miracles do happen. Amazing prosthetics made possible by the latest engineering and technology are able to provide just what they need, and scientists are finding that innovations created in the process are benefiting both animals and humans. We will meet these inspiring animals and the remarkable individuals whose work has helped them live their lives again.

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AN INTIMATE HISTORY

THE STORM

THURSDAY, APRIL 16 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM

In the 1920s, memories of Theodore Roosevelt begin to fade. The Great War is over, Woodrow Wilson is ill, and the American public is weary of domestic reform and events overseas. The Republican Party nominates Warren G. Harding for president, while Democratic nominee James M. Cox chooses thirty-eight-year-old Franklin D. Roosevelt to be his running mate. FDR campaigns with relish, and eventually persuades Eleanor to join him as he crisscrosses the country. She grows to enjoy meeting new people and dealing with the press, and also gains a new-found respect for Franklin’s most trusted advisor, Louis Howe. Although Cox and FDR lose the 1920 election to Harding, Franklin’s tireless campaigning gains him national recognition and the attention of prominent Democrats. For Eleanor, the 1920 campaign gives her a taste of what is possible outside the confines of home, and she is determined to find “real work” and to redefine her role with her husband and family.

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OBAMA AT WAR

TUESDAY, MAY 26 @ 8:00PM

Veteran FRONTLINE filmmaker Martin Smith goes inside the Obama administration’s struggle to deal with ISIS and the deadly civil war in Syria. With interviews from key military and diplomatic leaders, the documentary examines the hard choices facing the president as he tries to defeat the Islamic State without dragging America into a prolonged regional conflict.

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