THE RIVER STYX,
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10 @ 10:00PM
With South Vietnam in chaos, Hanoi accelerates the insurgency, sending combat troops to the South. Fearing Saigon’s collapse, President Johnson escalates, authorizing sustained bombing of the North and deploying ground troops in the South.
RIDING THE TIGER
THURSDAY, APRIL 3 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM
President Kennedy and his advisors wrestle with how deeply to get involved in South Vietnam. As the increasingly autocratic Diem regime faces a growing communist insurgency and widespread Buddhist protests, a grave political crisis unfolds. (90 Minutes)
RIDING THE TIGER
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 @ 6:00PM, 7:30PM & 11:00PM
President Kennedy and his advisors wrestle with how deeply to get involved in South Vietnam. As the increasingly autocratic Diem regime faces a growing communist insurgency and widespread Buddhist protests, a grave political crisis unfolds. (90 Minutes)
DEATH DIVE TO SATURN
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 @ 6:00PM
Almost everything we know today about the beautiful giant ringed planet comes from Cassini, the NASA mission that launched in 1997 and arrived at Saturn in 2004. Since then, the spacecraft has been beaming home miraculous images and scientific data, revealing countless wonders about the planet, its rings, and 62 moons—including some that could harbor life.
THURSDAY, MARCH 27 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM
DEJA VU
The first installment of a 10-part, 18-hour history of the Vietnam War. After a long and brutal war, Vietnamese revolutionaries led by Ho Chi Minh end nearly a century of French colonial occupation. With the Cold War intensifying, Vietnam is divided in two at Geneva. Communists in the north aim to reunify the country, while America supports Ngo Dinh Diem’s untested regime in the south.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 @ 9:00PM
For the second week in a row, President Trump has bucked the Republican Party and made a deal with Democrats in Congress. The president says he’ll work with Democratic Leaders Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi to make sure undocumented immigrants brought to this country as children are protected from deportation after the phase-out of DACA. In return, he wants stepped-up border security.
BALLET HISPANICO
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 @ 8:00PM
Enjoy two iconic works from the country’s premier Latino dance company: CARMEN.maquia, a modern take on Bizet’s passionate opera, and Club Havana, a virtuosic reimagining of a sizzling nightclub by Cuban-born choreographer Pedro Ruiz.
ABACUS: SMALL ENOUGH TO JAIL
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28 @ 8:00PM
The last time acclaimed filmmaker Steve James (Hoop Dreams, Life Itself) collaborated with FRONTLINE, the result was, The Interrupters — the gripping documentary about former street criminals in Chicago who place themselves in the line of fire to stop shootings and killings in their communities.
Now James has turned his lens on people in a different kind of struggle: the Sungs, a Chinese American family whose Abacus Federal Savings Bank was the only U.S. bank indicted for mortgage fraud related to the 2008 financial crisis.
THE IDEA THAT CHANGED THE WORLD
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 @ 6:00PM & 11:00PM
Follow the dramatic story of Martin Luther’s life: the massive lightning storm that nearly killed him, the bleak self-punishment of his time in the monastery, the corruption that unleashed his anger, his trial before the most powerful man in Europe, and the staged kidnapping that helped him escape the death penalty.
MY LOVE, DON’T CROSS THAT RIVER
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 @ 8:00PM
Husband and wife Jo Byeong-man and Kang Gye-yeol have managed to preserve their vitality, humor and affection for one another well into their seventh decade of marriage. They reside in a quiet and pastoral region of South Korea and follow many traditional features of Korean culture, from cooking their meals over a simple stone stove to wearing the hanbok robes of past generations.
Despite their age, Jo and Kang take responsibility for the physical labor their rural home demands, such as collecting firewood, fetching water and shoveling snow. These chores are often slowed down by Jo’s joking and mischief, but Kang hardly seems to mind.