WITH GWEN IFILL

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24 @ 9:00PM

THIS WEEK ON WASHINGTON WEEK: PRE-ELECTION VOTER ANXIETY, TIGHT GUBERNATORIAL RACES, CAMPAIGN FINANCING AND NEW EBOLA PROTOCOL

It’s less than two week until Election Day. While voter turnout during midterm elections drops nearly 30% compared with presidential elections, that doesn’t mean the stakes are not high this year. In fact, control of the U.S. Senate is at stake. On November 4, Americans across the country will cast ballots for governor in 36 states, as well as 36 Senate races, and all 435 House races.

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THE PARADISE, SEASON 2

EPISODE 4

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23 @ 7:00PM

Denise and Moray have everything they wished for – almost. What lengths will they go to in order to fulfill their ultimate dream, and can their love withstand blind ambition? Denise faces new challenges that keenly point out the difference between friendship and leadership, while Moray suddenly seems to live in the shadows, much like Jonas. Meanwhile, a Paradise employee faces a painful visit from the past, that also holds the opportunity for ultimate forgiveness.

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BEN FRANKLIN’S BALLOONS

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11 @ 8:00PM & 12:00AM

The first stage in human flight didn’t begin with the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk, but with daring inventors and aeronauts in 18^th century Paris. In a period of just 19 months, humanity not only left the ground for the first time—a moment as significant as the Apollo moon landing—but thanks to a handful of brilliant and colorful pioneers, developed all the essential features of today’s hot air and gas balloons.

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A MURDER OF CROWS

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26 @ 8:00PM

Crows live everywhere in the world except Antarctica and are a part of myths and legends in many cultures. Their reputation in the stories varies from comical to frightening, godlike or wise, bringers of light and bringers of death, though a “murder” of crows refers to a flock of crows, and not to anything murderous, at all. They may be all these things, but what we are learning is that they are especially smart.

New research has shown that they are among the most intelligent animals on the planet. They use tools as only elephants and chimpanzees do, and recognize 250 distinct calls. One particular talent they have been discovered to possess is the ability to recognize individual human faces and pick them out of a crowd up to two years later – a trick that might make even Hitchcock shiver with fright.

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LOSING IRAQ

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21 @ 11:00PM

FRONTLINE examines the unfolding chaos in Iraq and how the U.S. is being pulled back into the conflict. Drawing on interviews with policymakers and military leaders, the film traces the U.S. role from the invasion to today’s violence, showing how Iraq is coming undone, how we got here, what went wrong, and what happens next.

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WOMEN IN WAR

FRIDAY, MARCH 8 @ 11:00PM

Makers: Women in War looks at American women’s increasing participation in war—from Vietnam to the present—as nurses, soldiers, journalists, diplomats and spies. Among those featured are Linda Bray, the first woman to lead troops into battle, and Valerie Plame Wilson, whose career was sabotaged after she was “outed” as a high-level spy. Viewers hear from war correspondents Molly Moore, Clarissa Ward and Christiane Amanpour about life on the battlefield. The film shares the stories of military leaders who have broken through gender barriers, like General Angela Salinas, at her retirement the highest ranking woman serving in the USMC, and Vice Admiral Michelle Howard, the highest-ranking woman in the history of the U.S. Navy.

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TWIN SISTERS

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25 @ 8:00PM

Twin Sisters tells the moving true story of Mia and Alexandra, twin Chinese infants found in a cardboard box and taken to an orphanage in 2003. Two sets of hopeful parents — from Norway, and Sacramento, California — arrived in China to claim the babies but by a twist of fate, the adopting parents also met each other. Noticing how much the girls looked alike, they wondered if their new daughters might be connected.

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