FORGOTTEN ELLIS ISLAND

MONDAY, DECEMBER 12 @ 8:00PM & 11:00PM

Forgotten Ellis Island is the first film (and companion book) to be produced about the immigrant hospital on Ellis Island. Opened in 1902, the hospital grew to twenty-two medical buildings which sprawled across two islands adjacent to Ellis Island, the largest port of entry in the United States. Massive and modern, the hospital was America’s first line of defense against contagious, often virulent disease. In the era before antibiotics, tens of thousands of immigrant patients were separated from family, detained in the hospital, and healed from illness before becoming citizens.

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INSPECTOR LEWIS

OLD, UNHAPPY, FAR OFF THINGS

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM

Luminary graduates from Oxford’s last surviving all-female college are on campus to honor beloved professor Diana Ellerby (Juliet Stevenson, Place of Execution). There is the confident lingerie CEO, the provocative newspaper columnist — and then there’s the passive aggressive Poppy Toynton. Poppy never quite blossomed intellectually like her peers. When Poppy is found dead on the stairs, her seething rage against her fellow graduates exposed, Lewis and Hathaway step into the esteemed circle of women to investigate.

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THE PEOPLE V. LEO FRANK

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 @ 7:30PM & 12:30AM

In the pre-dawn hours of April 27, 1913, the night watchman at an Atlanta pencil factory made a grisly discovery: the body of a young girl. She had been beaten, strangled, and possibly raped. The death of 13-year-old Mary Phagan, a white worker at the factory, quickly became front-page news. Several arrests were made, including Jim Conley, a black janitor at the factory. Also arrested was Leo Frank, the factory’s superintendent and the last person to admit seeing Mary alive.

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A RIDE ALONG THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY

THURSDAY, JUNE 2 @ 7:00PM & 12:00AM

The Lincoln Highway is just a great American road. It was a route first mapped out by the original Lincoln Highway Association in 1913 as the best transcontinental highway. It was the fastest, smoothest and most direct path from New York City to San Francisco. And people have followed and learned to love that route ever since.

Now producer/narrator Rick Sebak (who has made PBS favorites like “A Hot Dog Program” and “A Flea Market Documentary”) has put together a new travelogue celebrating the history and enduring charms of the Lincoln. He talks with highway historians, with motor court operators, restaurateurs, travelers, members of the new Lincoln Highway Association, all sorts of folks who know and help preserve the highway and what’s along it.

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ARMADILLO

TUESDAY, AUGUST 30 @ 8:00PM & 11:00PM

In 2009, Janus Metz and cameraman Lars Skree accompanied a platoon of Danish soldiers to Armadillo, a combat operations base in southern Afghanistan. For six months, often while under fire, they captured the lives of the young soldiers fighting the Taliban in a hostile and confusing environment, where official rhetoric about helping civilians too often met the unforgiving reality of being a foreign occupier. Winner of the Critics’ Week Grand Prix at Cannes, Armadillo is one of the most dramatic and candid accounts of combat to come out of Afghanistan. (90 minutes)

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INSPECTOR LEWIS

DARK MATTER

SUNDAY, AUGUST 28 @7:00PM & 11:00PM

Oxford professor and amateur stargazer Andrew Crompton emerges from a church confessional, cryptically exclaiming that on Friday at 3:15, he’ll have an “excess of joy.” Later, Crompton is found dead at the foot of the stairs in the Oxford observatory. The investigation draws Detective Inspector Lewis (Kevin Whately) and Detective Sergeant Hathaway (Laurence Fox) into the ethereal writings of a 17th-century astronomer and a modern-day circle of scientists and musicians, and their unexpected connections to the deceased. The cosmos aside, there’s a dark deception at the center of the case, one that Lewis and Hathaway won’t be able to fully comprehend until Friday at 3:15.

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PETE SEEGER: THE POWER OF SONG

FRIDAY, AUGUST 26 7:30PM & 12:30AM

Where Have all the Flowers Gone is a singalong memoir written by Pete Seeger. This book is now in its third printing (including revisions and additional material). Stories and anecdotes are supported chronologically with approximately 200 songs (music and lyrics) that Pete wrote or with which he is associated – “Guantanamera,” “Where Have All The Flowers Gone,” “If I Had A Hammer,” “Turn Turn Turn,” “Wimoweh,” “We Shall Overcome” plus some new songs and more. Within these pages, Pete provides perspectives on everything from songwriting and the music business to social activism – including insight drawn from his experiences with the labor, peace, civil rights and environmental movements.

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EDEN AT THE END OF THE WORLD

THURSDAY, AUGUST 25 @ 7:00PM & 10:00PM

It is the last great wilderness of its kind, a rare and precious haven for some of Earth’s most indestructible creatures. Covering more than half-a-million square miles of Chile and Argentina, this wild place is known as Patagonia. At its crown tip is a grand island, Tierra del Fuego, a land as harsh as it is beautiful. This film tracks several species that call this extreme environment home. But the guanaco, condor and Magellanic penguin who share this spectacular place with orcas, parrots and elephant seals are facing increasing pressure from humans. Eden at the End of the World details how new conservation models may save them and preserve the wildness at the bottom of the world. Acclaimed actor Jeremy Irons narrates.