WITH GWEN IFILL

FRIDAY, MARCH 4 @ 9:00PM

This Week on Washington Week: Romney’s scathing rebuke of Trump, Republican candidates try to deny Trump nomination, and Clinton strengthens lead

Establishment Republicans alarmed by the prospect of Donald Trump winning the GOP nomination are speaking out against the party’s front runner hoping to sink his presidential bid. Mitt Romney told an audience at the University of Utah that the real estate mogul lacks the temperament and the integrity to be president and rattled off a litany of reasons why Trump should be stopped.

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AMERICAN MASTERS

FRIDAY, JANUARY 27 @ 8:00PM

Inducted into more music Halls of Fame than any female recording artist to date, Loretta Lynn (b. April 14, 1932) has earned four Grammy Awards, Kennedy Center Honors and a Presidential Medal of Freedom, and sold more than 45 million records worldwide. Still going strong after more than 50 years, “The Queen of Country Music” is now the subject of the new documentary American Masters – Loretta Lynn: Still a Mountain Girl.

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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

SATURDAY, JULY 13 @ 11:00PM

In the 1950s and early ’60s, a small band of high-altitude pioneers exposed themselves to the extreme forces of the space age long before NASA’s acclaimed Mercury 7 would make headlines. Though largely forgotten today, balloonists were the first to venture into the frozen near-vacuum on the edge of our world, exploring the very limits of human physiology and human ingenuity in this lethal realm.

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A YEAR IN SPACE

TUESDAY, JULY 23 @ 11:00PM

Follow astronaut Scott Kelly’s record-breaking 12-month mission on the International Space Station, from launch to landing, as NASA charts the effects of long-duration spaceflight.

The mission of Expedition 46,crew members is to install equipment and conduct experiments that help researchers test the use of inflatable space habitats in microgravity, analyze microbes living on the space station and study the protein crystal growth enablement of structurebased drug design, an integral component in the drug discovery and development process.

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A PBS NEWSHOUR SPECIAL REPORT

TUESDAY, MARCH 1 @ 9:00PM

Super Tuesday is the big gulp moment for any presidential candidate who makes it that far. It’s the biggest day of competition in American democracy except for Election Day itself. It’s super nail-bitey, super expensive and often super-clarifying — the killer and maker of dreams.

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THE LONG WAY HOME

TUESDAY, MARCH 1 @ 9:00PM

Discover how actress Julianna Margulies, author Azar Nafisi and chef Lidia Bastianich are bound together by their ancestors’ singular and deeply human desire to preserve their most cherished traditions.

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WILHEMINA’S WAR

MONDAY, DECEMBER 3 @ 11:00PM

In much of America, progress in HIV/AIDS treatment and improvement in education may suggest the worst is behind us, but every year 50,000 Americans are still diagnosed with the virus that causes AIDS. Astonishingly, nearly half of them live in the South, where the AIDS epidemic has taken root in rural communities, and is one of the leading causes of death among black women.

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OF DOWNTON ABBEY

A MASTERPIECE SPECIAL

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17 @ 6:00PM & 10:30PM

Return to the world of manners with Alastair Bruce, Downton Abbey‘s historical advisor. Featuring exclusive interviews with the series’ leading cast members such as Hugh Bonneville and Michelle Dockery, this documentary navigates the social protocol of aristocrats and servants in the 1920s and the age of jazz.

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AMERICAN MASTERS

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26 @ 11:00PM

Fats Domino was one of the most popular rockers of the 1950s and early 60s. His achievements and record sales during that time were rivaled only by Elvis Presley. With his boogie-woogie piano playing rooted in blues, rhythm & blues, and jazz, he became one of the inventors, along with Presley, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard of a revolutionary genre of music, rock ‘n’ roll.

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SMITHSONIAN SALUTES RAY CHARLES

IN PERFORMANCE AT THE WHITE HOUSE

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26 @ 7:00PM & 12:00AM

“Smithsonian Salutes Ray Charles: In Performance at the White House” showcases an evening of celebration with President and Mrs. Obama at the White House in honor of the legacy of iconic singer, songwriter, composer and musician Ray Charles. The evening includes performances by Yolanda Adams, Leon Bridges, Andra Day, Anthony Hamilton, Brittany Howard, Demi Lovato, Sam Moore, Jussie Smollett, The Band Perry and Usher with Rickey Minor as executive music director. The hour-long program, part of the Emmy Award-nominated “In Performance at the White House” series, is the 56th production in the series’ thirty-eight-year history.

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