LOVE FREE OR DIE
MONDAY, JUNE 3 @ 11:00PM
Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson is a man of God, driven and defined by his faith, who is also devoted to his husband Mark. His consecration, the first of an openly gay man in any Christian denomination, has deeply divided the church and put Robinson’s very life in danger.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 28 @ 9:00PM
EPISODE 5: Nonnatus House responds to cancer – and to an ill-starred money-making venture.
Call the Midwife is a moving and intimate insight into the colorful world of midwifery and family life in 1950’s East London. We are introduced to the community through the eyes of young nurse Jenny Lee as she arrives at Nonnatus House to live and work as a midwife alongside an Order of Nuns.
VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED
UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS, SERIES 2
ALL THE THINGS YOU ARE
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 28 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM
Episode 4
England needs good fighters, and when it comes to the Belgravia Servants’ Boxing Championship, 165 Eaton Place will be well represented by chauffeur Harry Spargo and young servant Johnny Proude. Yet Spargo seems intent only on winning the affection of maid Beryl Ballard, while Proude is looking for distraction from the specter of war.
NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIGHT
THURSDAY, OCTOBER @ 8:00PM
Patricio Guzmán’s Nostalgia for the Lightis a remarkable meditation on memory, history and eternity. Chile’s remote Atacama Desert, 10,000 feet above sea level, provides stunningly clear views of the heavens. But it also holds secrets from the past in its arid soil: human remains, from pre-Columbian mummies to the bones of political prisoners “disappeared” during the Pinochet dictatorship.
ICEMAN MURDER MYSTERY
SATURDAY, MARCH 10 @ 11:00PM
He’s been dead for more than 5,000 years and poked, prodded, and probed by scientists for the last 20. Yet Ötzi the Iceman, the famous mummified corpse pulled from a glacier in the Italian Alps, continues to keep many secrets. Now, through an autopsy like none other, scientists will attempt to unravel mysteries about this ancient mummy, revealing not only the details of Ötzi’s death but also an entire way of life.
MAGIC OF THE SNOWY OWL
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 27 @ 8:00PM
Throughout the long months of the Arctic’s frozen winter, the sun remains below the horizon. The cold is intensified by the darkness, making life difficult, if not impossible, for all but the toughest and most experienced of animals. Snowy owls are built for the challenge, their every sense and skill honed to take on the eerie, bleak world. When the brief Arctic summer approaches, bringing light back to the tundra, snowy owls embark on an even more daunting challenge than keeping themselves alive.
THREE MEN GO TO WAR
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 @ 11:00PM
Fifty years after the events that brought the world to the brink of nuclear disaster, CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS — THREE MEN GO TO WARreveals how three human beings grappled with the most dangerous two weeks in human history, when countless events outside their control threatened to ignite a nuclear holocaust that could have ended human civilization
CLIMATE OF DOUBT
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25 @ 7:00PM
Four years ago, climate change was a hot issue and politicians from both sides seemed poised to act. Today public opinion on the climate issue has cooled considerably. Politicians either ignore it or proclaim their skepticism. What’s behind this massive reversal? FRONTLINE goes inside the organizations that fought the scientific establishment to shift the direction of the climate debate.
PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE
MONDAY. OCTOBER 22 @ 7:00PM
Bob Schieffer, chief Washington correspondent, CBS News, and moderator, “Face the Nation,” moderates the debate. The debate will focus on foreign policy and be divided into six segments of approximately 15 minutes each on topics to be selected by the moderator and announced before the debate.
UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS, SERIES 2
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM
A PERFECT SPECIMEN OF WOMANHOOD
Lady Agnes Holland has cheerfully taken up a class at the Women’s League of Health and Beauty, which holds the dual ideals of exercise and equality. She has eagerly enlisted several of the female staff to participate as well.
But back on the home front, a scandal is brewing involving a torrid new novel and its potential ties to a household resident, drawing the attention of the press and the ire of the house staff.
Lady Agnes and her modern ideals are tested when the welfare of the women working at the house is called into question. A visit to a trusted advisor offers reassurance and comfort.
Meanwhile, a crisis is playing out at 165 Eaton Place, causing Lady Persie and Sir Hallam to clash and share an explosive secret. In the battle of these two strong wills, who will win and what is right?