WOMEN IN SPACE

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14 @ 7:00PM & 12:00AM

Makers: Women in Space traces the history of women pioneers in the U.S. space program. Some, like aviators Wally Funk and Jerrie Cobb, passed the same grueling tests as male astronauts, only to be dismissed by NASA, the military, and even Lyndon Johnson, as a distraction. It wasn’t until 1995 that Eileen Collins became the first woman to pilot a spacecraft. The program includes interviews with Collins, as well as Sally Ride’s classmates Shannon Lucid, Rhea Seddon and Kathryn Sullivan, and features Mae Jemison, the first woman of color astronaut, and Peggy Whitson, the first female commander of the International Space Station.

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DUMFRIES

SUNDAY, JUNE 20 @ 7:00PM & 10:00PM

This four-part series takes an in-depth look at the workings of some of Scotland’s most magnificent country estates through the eyes of the current owners, the ghillies, the gardeners and the housekeepers, not forgetting the paying guests who frequent these stunning country estates. The programs, filmed entirely in Scotland, tell the fascinating stories behind these magnificent buildings.

About Dumfries

Tour the interior of the fabulous Dumfries House, an architectural gem that boasts one of the largest collections of Chippendale furniture in the world. This once-neglected mansion was dramatically brought back to life and saved for the nation by HRH The Prince of Wales.

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INSPECTOR LEWIS, SEASON 7

THE LIONS OF NEMEA

SUNDAY, JULY 24 @ 11:00PM

THE LIONS OF NEMEA: After a difficult start, Lewis and Hathaway seem to have settled back into their former relationship. But together with the new DS, Lizzie Maddox, they find themselves put to the test as they investigate the brutal murder of an American classics student. The deeper they delve, the more suspects and murky motives come to light.

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WITH GWEN IFILL

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10 @ 9:00PM

THIS WEEK ON WASHINGTON WEEK: U.S. STARTS EBOLA SCREENING, SCOTUS INDECISION ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, PANETTA’S SHARP CRITICISM OF OBAMA AND MIDTERM PREVIEW

The White House announced extra Ebola screening will be put in place at five U.S. airports, the destination of a majority of travelers from Ebola affected West African countries.

The Supreme Court declined to decide whether states can ban gay marriage, a move that will allow gay men and women to get married in five additional states with more to follow

CNN’s Gloria Borger interviewed former CIA Director and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta about his new book where he is critical of some of President Obama’s foreign policy decisions

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THE NANCE STARRING NATHAN LANE

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11 @ 9:00PM

Nathan Lane delivers the performance of a lifetime as Chauncey Miles, a burlesque performer of the 1930s who specializes in playing gay men for laughs – at least onstage.

Nominated for three Tony Awards, Douglas Carter Beane’s celebrated play is both a love letter to the grand old days of burlesque and a love story before its time. Nathan Lane gives the performance of a lifetime as Chauncey Miles, a burlesque comedian caught between the tug of his heart, the calling of his art, and the increasingly harsh realities of Depression Era politics and mores.

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SURVIVING EBOLA

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8 @ 11:00PM

In December, 2013, in a small village in West Africa, a young boy died from the dreaded disease, Ebola. Over the next nine months the virulent killer would claim more victims than all previous Ebola epidemics put together. And for the first time, the disease escaped the isolated, rural villages where it had first appeared and traveled in infected patients by air to densely populated cities in several African countries. As the epidemic threatens to spiral out of control, NOVA reports from the hot zone, where courageous medical teams struggle to cope with a flood of victims, and in labs where scientists are racing to test vaccines and find a cure. “Surviving Ebola” includes chilling first-hand interviews of what it’s like to catch—and—survive this terrible affliction.

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A NATURE SPECIAL PRESENTATION

EPISODE 3 – GROWING UP

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11 @10:00 PM

As their chicks become increasingly independent, emperor and rockhopper parents place them in a crèche and go fishing. Humboldt chicks are left in their burrows as the adults head for the beach. As the young grow bigger and preen out baby fluff they sport punk hairdos. Emperor chicks go skating while rockhopper chicks practice jumping skills. Eventually all the chicks leave for the sea, tackling the same hazards as their parents before them, from sea lions to predatory birds, high cliffs to glaciers.

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OUR AMERICAN STORYTELLERS

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7 @ 9:00PM

Three iconic American storytellers who have spent their lives chronicling the lives of others all the while knowing almost nothing about their own family history: Ken Burns confronts the reality of his southern ancestors’ role in the Civil War, including Confederate soldiers who were held captive and a slave-owning Virginian; Anderson Cooper, the scion of one of America’s most storied families, the Vanderbilts, longs to know more about his father’s Southern roots, including the story of an ancestor murdered by one his slaves; and Anna Deavere Smith learns the epic story of her great-grandfather, Basil Biggs, a free black man and former conductor on the Underground Railroad. All three guests’ ancestors intersect at the most pivotal moments of American history.

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WOMEN IN HOLLYWOOD

FRIDAY, MARCH 1 @ 11:00PM

Makers: Women in Hollywood showcases the women of showbiz, from the earliest pioneers to present-day power players, as they influence the creation of one of the country’s biggest commodities: entertainment. Audiences hear from actress-producer-activist Jane Fonda; television powerhouse Shonda Rhimes, who created Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal; screenwriter Linda Woolverton, who re-imagined the traditional Disney princess; writer-director-actress Lena Dunham, who mines comedy and drama gold by exploring what it’s really like to be a young woman today; six-time Academy Award nominee Glenn Close; director Nancy Meyers; and actress Zoe Saldana.

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THE ACT OF KILLING

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 @ 8:00PM

Nominated for an Academy Award®, The Act of Killing is as dreamlike and terrifying as anything that Werner Herzog (one of the executive producers) could imagine. This film explores a horrifying era in Indonesian history and provides a window into modern Indonesia, where corruption reigns. Not only is the 1965 murder of an estimated one million people honored as a patriotic act, but the killers remain in power. In a mind-bending twist, death-squad leaders dramatize their brutal deeds in the style of the American westerns, musicals and gangster movies they love — and play both themselves and their victims. As their heroic facade crumbles, they come to question what they’ve done.

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