WOMEN IN WAR

FRIDAY, MARCH 8 @ 11:00PM

Makers: Women in War looks at American women’s increasing participation in war—from Vietnam to the present—as nurses, soldiers, journalists, diplomats and spies. Among those featured are Linda Bray, the first woman to lead troops into battle, and Valerie Plame Wilson, whose career was sabotaged after she was “outed” as a high-level spy. Viewers hear from war correspondents Molly Moore, Clarissa Ward and Christiane Amanpour about life on the battlefield. The film shares the stories of military leaders who have broken through gender barriers, like General Angela Salinas, at her retirement the highest ranking woman serving in the USMC, and Vice Admiral Michelle Howard, the highest-ranking woman in the history of the U.S. Navy.

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TWIN SISTERS

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25 @ 8:00PM

Twin Sisters tells the moving true story of Mia and Alexandra, twin Chinese infants found in a cardboard box and taken to an orphanage in 2003. Two sets of hopeful parents — from Norway, and Sacramento, California — arrived in China to claim the babies but by a twist of fate, the adopting parents also met each other. Noticing how much the girls looked alike, they wondered if their new daughters might be connected.

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INSPECTOR LEWIS, SEASON 7

BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM

BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL: Thirteen years after Lewis’ first successful arrest as a Detective Inspector, the forensics have been called into question and the case reopened for appeal. Lewis fears the worst, but nothing can prepare him for the resumption of the original murders with the original weapon. Did he arrest an innocent man? With Lewis’ reputation in jeopardy, Hathaway and Maddox race to catch the killer.

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WITH MARIA HINOJOSA

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19 @ 7:30PM

American suburbs are becoming more diverse, but the “exurbs” that surround them remain overwhelmingly white. In fact, while whites account for only 8% of total U.S. population growth, they make up 73% of growth in exurban areas.

We visit Coeur d’Alene, Idaho—a town that successfully ousted the Aryan Nations in 2000, but remains over 94% white. We explore both the allure and the complexity of living in a homogenous community.

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WITH GWEN IFILL

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17 @ 9:00AM

THIS WEEK ON WASHINGTON WEEK: EBOLA RESPONSE, ISIS MOVEMENT, ECONOMIC RECOVERY, MIDTERM DEBATES

Congressional lawmakers grilled health officials from Texas and the federal government about the U.S. response to Ebola, possible travel bans, and whether current protocols need to be changed during a combative hearing on Capitol Hill today.  Meanwhile, two nurses who wore protective gear while caring for Ebola patient Thomas Duncan before he died at a Dallas hospital have contracted the virus. One is now being treated at a specialized quarantine facility in Georgia.

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FROM SAN FRANCISCO OPERA

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18 @ 6:00PM

In the 1920s, George Gershwin had an ambition to compose an American opera. In 1926, he read a powerful novel by an upper-class white South Carolinian, DuBose Heyward, called PORGY. Written the previous year, it was a series of vignettes of life in a black Charleston ghetto called Catfish Row, where a cripple named Porgy falls blindly in love with a woman named Bess, whose inconstant affections both torment and inflame him. Bess is torn between the rough men of Catfish Row, like Crown, who offers her a more glamorous life, and Porgy, who can only offer her his pure devotion.  (3 Hours)

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THE PARADISE, SEASON 2

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16 @ 7:00PM

Help wanted! There’s a high-profile vacancy at the Paradise, and applicants stream in as Katherine, Tom and Moray work to advance their own candidates — and interests. The clashes aren’t confined only to the store floor as Katherine and Tom debate what is in the best interest of young Flora. And Denise confronts a troubling question – Moray may thinks of her as his “little champion,” but does he believe she is his equal?

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WITH STEVEN JOHNSON

TIME

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15 @ 11:00PM

Board a submarine with Steven Johnson to discover what a lack of natural light means for a sailor’s working day and visit Heathrow, the world’s busiest airport, to try to get timings right at air traffic control. The story of getting a grip on time is full of curious garage tinkerers. One of them, railway clerk William F. Allen, was so exasperated by the chaos caused by the hundreds of local times zones in the U.S. that he fought tirelessly to standardize time into four zones. Learn how advancements in navigation, the way we work, technology and travel would have been impossible without the unsung heroes of time.

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WITH STEVEN JOHNSON

CLEAN

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15 @ 7:00PM & 12:00AM

Dirty water has killed more humans than all the wars of history combined, but in the last 150 years, a series of radical ideas, extraordinary innovations and unsung heroes have changed our world. Steven Johnson plunges into a sewer to understand what made a maverick engineer decide to lift the city of Chicago with jackscrews in order to build America’s first sewer system. He talks about John Leal, who deliberately “poisoned” the water supply of 200,000 people when, without authorization, he added chlorine, considered lethal in 1908, into Jersey City’s water and made it safe to drink.

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THE TROUBLE WITH ANTIBIOTICS

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14 @ 11:00PM

FRONTLINE investigates the widespread use of antibiotics in food animals and whether it is fueling the growing crisis of antibiotic resistance in people. Also this hour: An exclusive interview with the family of a young man who died in a nightmare bacteria outbreak that swept through a hospital at the National Institutes of Health.

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