IT’S THE HARD-KNOCK LIFE
FROM SCRIPT TO STAGE
FRIDAY, JUNE 28 @ 7:00PM & 12:00AM
The show-stopping musical ANNIE, its characters and its songs are timeless and classic. For Annie’s return to Broadway, this documentary offers a memorable behind-the-scenes look at every step of a single ANNIE production number, from the earliest phases of discussion among the creative team, rehearsals with actors, to opening night on Broadway.
BLACK MAMBA
SUNDAY, JUNE 30 @ 8:00PM
The black mamba is Africa’s deadliest snake. Untreated, its bite has a fatality rate of 100 percent, making it a killer among killers on a continent where it is thought that nearly 20,000 people die of snake bites each year, and the residents of Swaziland in southern Africa have suffered losses for generations. With essentially no access to anti-venom, many people turn to traditional healers for help, but their herbal remedies always fail, leaving Swazis feeling fearful and defenseless against one of their nation’s most infamous killers.
RAPE IN THE FIELDS
TUESDAY, MARCH 18 @ 11:00PM
FRONTLINE and Univision partner to tell the story of the hidden price many migrant women working in America’s fields and packing plants pay to stay employed and provide for their families. This investigation is the result of a yearlong reporting effort by veteran FRONTLINE correspondent Lowell Bergman, the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley, and the Center for Investigative Reporting. (Viewer discretion advised)
HOMEGOINGS
MONDAY, JUNE 24 @ 8:00PM
Through the eyes of funeral director Isaiah Owens, the beauty and grace of African-American funerals are brought to life. Filmed at Owens Funeral Home in New York City’s historic Harlem neighborhood, Homegoingstakes an up-close look at the rarely seen world of undertaking in the black community, where funeral rites draw on a rich palette of tradition, history and celebration. Combining cinéma vérité with intimate interviews and archival photographs, the film paints a portrait of the dearly departed, their grieving families and a man who sends loved ones “home.
INSPECTOR LEWIS, SERIES VI
THE RAMBLIN’ BOY
SUNDAY, JUNE 23 @ 7:00PM & 11:30PM
With D.S. Hathaway on holiday, Inspector Lewis is assigned an awkward new partner to investigate the discovery of a recently embalmed body in a field. When the inquiry leads to a funeral home and those connected to it, a disturbing connection to Lewis’ missing former colleague, Superintendent Jack Cornish, comes into sharp relief.
Kevin Whately stars as Inspector Lewis, the former working-class foil to the erudite Detective Inspector Morse, and Laurence Fox stars as his cool, cerebral partner Detective Sergeant Hathaway, in the second all-new mystery of Inspector Lewis, Series VI, The Ramblin’ Boy. Peter Davison (Doctor Who) guest stars.
WITH GWEN IFILL
FRIDAY, JUNE 21 @ 6:00PM & 11:00PM
This Week: Obama Overseas, Afghan Peace Talks, Immigration and Farm Bills, and NSA disclosures.
The proposed $500 billion, five-year farm bill backed by Republican leaders, was defeated in the House on Thursday.
Peter Baker of The New York Times will report on the success and setbacks President Obama had at this week’s G8 summit and how his influence on the world stage has changed since his first term in office.
Indira Lakshmanan of Bloomberg News will explain attempts by the U.S. to start talks with the Taliban to help end the 12-year old Afghan war and why President Hamid Karzai has suddenly decided to boycott the peace talks.
EXTREME CAVE DIVING
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2 @ 10:00PM
Follow a fearless team of scientists as they venture into blue holes—underwater caves that formed during the last ice age, when sea level was nearly 400 feet below what it is today. These caves, little-known treasures of the Bahamas, are one of Earth’s least explored and most dangerous frontiers. The interdisciplinary team of biologists, climatologists, and anthropologists discover intriguing evidence of the earliest human inhabitants of the islands, find animals seen nowhere else on Earth, and recover a remarkable record of the planet’s climate.
INVASION OF THE GIANT PYTHONS
SUNDAY, JUNE 14 @ 10:00PM
As part of an ever popular international pet trade market, and incidentally along paths of human travel, many exotic animals have been removed from their native lands and landed where they are not necessarily welcome arrivals. Among these invasive species are a growing number of Burmese pythons, which have taken up residence in the wetlands of Florida, courtesy of overwhelmed pet owners and hurricane-hit animal warehouses.
THE REVOLUTIONARY OPTIMISTS
MONDAY, JUNE 17 @ 8:00PM
Former attorney Amlan Ganguly doesn’t simply rescue children living in Calcutta’s slums. He empowers them to transform their own neighborhoods and lives—cleaning up trash dumps, going to school, reducing malaria infection. Follow Amlan and three of the children he works with as they fight for the better future he encourages them to believe can be theirs.
INSPECTOR LEWIS, SERIES VI
DOWN AMONG THE FEARFUL
SUNDAY, JUNE 16 @ 7:00PM & 11:30PM
When a psychic is found murdered, Inspector Lewis and D.S. Hathaway discover that the victim is really an Oxford psychology research fellow. As they probe further, the truth behind the psychic’s double-life unravels, revealing numerous possible suspects.
Kevin Whately stars as Inspector Lewis, the former working-class foil to the erudite Detective Inspector Morse, and Laurence Fox stars as his cool, cerebral partner Detective Sergeant Hathaway, in Down Among the Fearful, the premiere mystery of Inspector Lewis, Series VI.