HOMEGOINGS

MONDAY, JUNE 24 @ 8:00PM

Through the eyes of funeral director Isaiah Owens, the beauty and grace of African-American funerals are brought to life. Filmed at Owens Funeral Home in New York City’s historic Harlem neighborhood, Homegoingstakes an up-close look at the rarely seen world of undertaking in the black community, where funeral rites draw on a rich palette of tradition, history and celebration. Combining cinéma vérité with intimate interviews and archival photographs, the film paints a portrait of the dearly departed, their grieving families and a man who sends loved ones “home.

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INSPECTOR LEWIS, SERIES VI

THE RAMBLIN’ BOY

SUNDAY, JUNE 23 @ 7:00PM & 11:30PM

With D.S. Hathaway on holiday, Inspector Lewis is assigned an awkward new partner to investigate the discovery of a recently embalmed body in a field. When the inquiry leads to a funeral home and those connected to it, a disturbing connection to Lewis’ missing former colleague, Superintendent Jack Cornish, comes into sharp relief.

Kevin Whately stars as Inspector Lewis, the former working-class foil to the erudite Detective Inspector Morse, and Laurence Fox stars as his cool, cerebral partner Detective Sergeant Hathaway, in the second all-new mystery of Inspector Lewis, Series VI, The Ramblin’ Boy. Peter Davison (Doctor Who) guest stars.

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WITH GWEN IFILL

FRIDAY, JUNE 21 @ 6:00PM & 11:00PM

This Week: Obama Overseas, Afghan Peace Talks, Immigration and Farm Bills, and NSA disclosures.

The proposed $500 billion, five-year farm bill backed by Republican leaders, was defeated in the House on Thursday.

Peter Baker of The New York Times will report on the success and setbacks President Obama had at this week’s G8 summit and how his influence on the world stage has changed since his first term in office.

Indira Lakshmanan of Bloomberg News will explain attempts by the U.S. to start talks with the Taliban to help end the 12-year old Afghan war and why President Hamid Karzai has suddenly decided to boycott the peace talks.

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EXTREME CAVE DIVING

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2 @ 10:00PM

Follow a fearless team of scientists as they venture into blue holes—underwater caves that formed during the last ice age, when sea level was nearly 400 feet below what it is today. These caves, little-known treasures of the Bahamas, are one of Earth’s least explored and most dangerous frontiers. The interdisciplinary team of biologists, climatologists, and anthropologists discover intriguing evidence of the earliest human inhabitants of the islands, find animals seen nowhere else on Earth, and recover a remarkable record of the planet’s climate.

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INVASION OF THE GIANT PYTHONS

SUNDAY, JUNE 14 @ 10:00PM

As part of an ever popular international pet trade market, and incidentally along paths of human travel, many exotic animals have been removed from their native lands and landed where they are not necessarily welcome arrivals. Among these invasive species are a growing number of Burmese pythons, which have taken up residence in the wetlands of Florida, courtesy of overwhelmed pet owners and hurricane-hit animal warehouses.

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THE REVOLUTIONARY OPTIMISTS

MONDAY, JUNE 17 @ 8:00PM

Former attorney Amlan Ganguly doesn’t simply rescue children living in Calcutta’s slums. He empowers them to transform their own neighborhoods and lives—cleaning up trash dumps, going to school, reducing malaria infection. Follow Amlan and three of the children he works with as they fight for the better future he encourages them to believe can be theirs.

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INSPECTOR LEWIS, SERIES VI

DOWN AMONG THE FEARFUL

SUNDAY, JUNE 16 @ 7:00PM & 11:30PM

When a psychic is found murdered, Inspector Lewis and D.S. Hathaway discover that the victim is really an Oxford psychology research fellow. As they probe further, the truth behind the psychic’s double-life unravels, revealing numerous possible suspects.

Kevin Whately stars as Inspector Lewis, the former working-class foil to the erudite Detective Inspector Morse, and Laurence Fox stars as his cool, cerebral partner Detective Sergeant Hathaway, in Down Among the Fearful, the premiere mystery of Inspector Lewis, Series VI.

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with GWEN IFILL

FRIDAY, JUNE 14 @ 9:00PM

U.S. TO AID SYRIAN REBELS, NSA LEAKS, IMMIGRATION AND SCOTUS DECISIONS

U.S. and foreign intelligence agencies have determined that Syria has used chemical weapons against opposition forces multiple times over the past year. President Barack Obama has said that the use of chemical weapons by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad would cross a “red line” for the U.S. Late Thursday the White House announced that the U.S. will provide military assistance to some rebel forces but released few specifics on the extent of America’s involvement in Syria’s civil war.

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GARRISON KEILLOR

THE MAN ON THE RADIO IN THE RED SHOES

SATURDAY, JUNE 15 @ 6:00PM

Through the course of a year, an intimate lens captures Keillor on- and off- stage as he mingles fact and fiction to create America’s collective hometown, Lake Wobegon, on a radio program that carries bona-fide nostalgia. The result is a fascinating inside look at the enigmatic raconteur and how the imaginary world he created became a real place in America.

“Keillor is an American institution,” says Susan Lacy, creator and executive producer of American Masters, a six-time winner of the Emmy Award for Outstanding Primetime Non-Fiction Series. “His stories of Lake Wobegon speak to our inherent patriotism and bring back memories of a simpler time.”

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TWO SPIRITS

MONDAY, JUNE 10 @ 8:00PM

Two Spirits interweaves the tragic story of a mother’s loss of her son with a revealing look at the largely unknown history of a time when the world wasn’t simply divided into male and female and many Native American cultures held places of honor for people of integrated genders.

Fred Martinez was nádleehí, a male-bodied person with a feminine nature, a special gift according to his ancient Navajo culture. He was one of the youngest hate-crime victims in modern history when he was brutally murdered at 16. Two Spiritsexplores the life and death of this boy who was also a girl, and the essentially spiritual nature of gender.

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