A PROGRAM ABOUT UNUSUAL BUILDINGS

& OTHER ROADSIDE STUFF

SATURDAY,  JUNE 18 @ 8:00PM

Celebrate some of America’s most interesting and goofy buildings, places like Long Island’s duck-shaped Big Duck and the National Fresh Water Fishing National Hall of Fame (in the shape of a five-story-tall fish) in Heyward, Wisconsin.

In Mitchell, South Dakota, the unusual Corn Palace, decorated in corn and various other grains, has attracted visitors since 1892. Originally designed to convince homesteaders of the rich farming possibilities in the state, the Corn Palace is now a busy civic center celebrated every August with a festival.

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THE WOUNDED PLATOON

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 @ 7:0PM & 10:00PM

In The Wounded Platoon, FRONTLINE investigates a single Fort Carson platoon of infantrymen — the 3rd Platoon, Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry — and finds, after a long journey, a group of young men changed by war and battling a range of psychiatric disorders that many blame for their violent and self-destructive behavior. Since returning from Iraq, three members of the 3rd Platoon have been convicted on murder or attempted murder charges; one has been jailed for drunk driving and another for assaulting his wife; and one has attempted suicide.

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THE STORM THAT SWEPT MEXICO

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 @ 8:00PM & 11:00PM

The Storm That Swept Mexico tells the gripping story of the Mexican Revolution of 1910, the first major political and social revolution of the 20th century. The revolution not only changed the course of Mexican history, transforming economic and political power within the nation, but also profoundly impacted the relationships between Mexico, the U.S. and the rest of the world.

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INSPECTOR LEWIS

WILD JUSTICE

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM

Rabbis, nuns, mullahs, and Buddhists peacefully commingle with their friar hosts at an interfaith conference at St. Gerard’s college. But when an American female bishop is found dead, poisoned by a glass of the college’s own chianti, Lewis (Kevin Whately) and Hathaway (Laurence Fox) suspect that the bishop’s liberal views led to her murder. That is, until a far more gruesome death occurs, mirroring a macabre murder from a Jacobean Revenge tragedy.

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A LETTER TO ELIA

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 @ 6:00PM

For Martin Scorsese, growing up in Little Italy, seeing On the Waterfront and East of Eden as a young man was a life-changing experience. Scorsese appears on and off camera throughout A Letter to Elia, taking us through Kazan’s life and through his own as well, and through his growing realization that there was an artist behind the camera, someone “who knew me, maybe better than I knew myself.” The film is about being exposed to the right movies at the right moment in your adolescent life, when you’re wide open and ready to connect, to be spurred on by the work up there on the screen, and then, maybe, to chart a course toward making your own movies.

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THE INTERROGATOR

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 @ 7:00PM & 10:00PM

In March 2002, Ali Soufan was sent to interrogate Abu Zubaydah, one of the highest level Al Qaeda operatives in U.S. custody.

Soufan had been at the center of investigations into Al Qaeda both before and after 9/11. One of the few Arabic-speaking FBI agents, he had experience extracting information from Al Qaeda operatives. He tells FRONTLINE his approach was to “outsmart” the individual he was questioning. “You can catch more flies with honey than vinegar,” he says.
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ENGINEERING GROUND ZERO

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 @ 11:00PM and

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 @ 5:00PM

To commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9/11, NOVA presents an epic story of engineering, innovation, and the perseverance of the human spirit. With extraordinary access granted by The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, “Engineering Ground Zero” follows the five-year construction of One World Trade Center (1 WTC) and the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.

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TOP SECRET AMERICA

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER TUESDAY 8 @ 7:00PM & 10:00PM

In the years after September 11th, FRONTLINE produced more than 45 hours of award-winning films documenting the 9/11 attacks and America’s response to them. Now on the 10th anniversary of September 11th, FRONTLINE Producer Michael Kirk — Bush’s War, The Torture Question, and Cheney’s Law — teams up with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Dana Priest, to investigate the dramatic changes that have reshaped America in the last decade. The program examines the history of the secret side of America’s “war on terror.” From the creation of black site prisons abroad and super-secret facilities here in America, to targeted killings and covert wars waged by special forces, and the creation of a multibillion-dollar terrorism-industrial complex, FRONTLINE and Dana Priest ask how a decade of fighting terrorism has reshaped the country and whether it has made us any safer.

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