A DEADLY CALLING

THURSDAY, AUGUST 6 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM

In fall 1943, after almost two years of war, the American public is able to see for the first time the terrible toll the war is taking on its troops when Lifepublishes a photograph of the bodies of three GIs killed in action at Buna. Despite American victories in the Solomons and New Guinea, the Japanese empire still stretches 4,000 miles, and victory seems a long way off. In November, on the tiny Pacific atoll of Tarawa, the Marines set out to prove that any island, no matter how fiercely defended, can be taken by all-out frontal assault. Back home, the public is devastated by color newsreel footage of the furious battle, including the bodies of Marines floating in the surf, and grows more determined to do whatever is necessary to hasten the end of the war.

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WHITE FALCON, WHITE WOLF

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1 @ 6:00PM & 9:00PM

Extending above the Arctic Circle in the far north of Canada, Ellesmere Island is one of largest untouched wildernesses on the planet.  Here, the animals have only three short months to raise offspring and prepare for the winter.  To succeed, their timing must be just right.  White Falcon, White Wolffollows two families, a breeding pair of gyrfalcons and a pack of Arctic wolves.  As nine months of snow and ice melt away, flowers bloom, young are born, and the struggle begins.

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TUESDAY, AUGUST 7 @ 6:00PM & 9:00PM

History Detectives is devoted to exploring the complexities of historical mysteries, searching out the facts, myths and conundrums that connect local folklore, family legends and interesting objects.

Traditional investigative techniques, modern technologies, and plenty of legwork are the tools the History Detectives team of experts uses to give new – and sometimes shocking – insights into our national history.

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INSPECTOR LEWIS

THE INDELIBLE STAIN

SUNDAY, JUNE 9 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM

“No platform for racists!” shouts a crowd of protestors, interrupting the controversial lecture of American academic Paul Yelland (David Soul), a guest of Oxford’s Department of Criminology. An anti-racist extremist hurls a threat at the professor, and later that night, Yelland is discovered strangled to death with a noose made from his own tie.

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HAVANA, HAVANA!

SATURDAY, APRIL 20 @ 8:00PM

Feel the soul and energy of African-Cuban drummers, guajira guitarists and the pulsing melodies of celebrated Cuban musician Raul Paz, who brings together fellow musical stars Descemer Bueno, Kelvis Ochoa and David Torrens for a concert in Havana. All of them left Cuba years ago; their decision to return has injected a new spirit into Cuban music. Mirroring Cuba’s growing relationship with the world, HAVANA, HAVANA! highlights the evolution of the country’s musical expression in the 21st century.

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STRONG!

THURSDAY, JULY 26 @ 7:00PM & 10:00PM

Cheryl Haworth is an Olympic weightlifter who has competed in three Olympic Games, winning the bronze medal in Sydney in 2000. She held the title of National Champion for 11 consecutive years. Weighing close to 300 pounds, Cheryl uses her size to her competitive advantage in a sport that has traditionally been the province of men. Strong!is the story of Cheryl’s weightlifting career, the rigors of training for competition, and her personal experience of being big in a culture that values women who are small.

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BEARS OF THE LAST FRONTIER

ARCTIC WANDERERS

WEDNESDAY, JULY 25 @ 6:00PM & 9:00PM

It’s finally here — time for us to share our incredible Alaskan adventure with the world through Bears of the Last Frontier. It has been quite the journey. The film has been nearly two years in the making, and for both of us it has become an unforgettable part of our lives. Over the course of a year and a half we traveled well over 3000 miles across Alaska and shot 500 hours of footage for this epic three-hour PBS Nature series. We spent many, many months in bear country – piecing together the lives of these fascinating animals by observing and filming them, and by living in bear country, among the animals and people that share bear habitat.

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ALASKA GOLD

TUESDAY, JULY 24 @ 8:00PM & 11:00PM

The Bristol Bay region of southwest Alaska is home to the last great wild sockeye salmon fishery in the world. It’s also home to enormous mineral deposits—copper, gold, molybdenum—estimated to be worth over $300 billion. Now, two foreign mining companies are proposing to extract this mineral wealth by digging one of North America’s largest open-pit mines, the “Pebble Mine,” at the headwaters of Bristol Bay. FRONTLINE travels to Alaska to probe the fault lines of a growing battle between those who depend on this extraordinary fishery for a living, the mining companies who are pushing for Pebble, and the political framework that will ultimately decide the outcome.

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INSPECTOR LEWIS

FEARFUL SYMMETRY

SUNDAY, JULY 22 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM

Sometimes murder extends its reach even beyond the medieval walls of Oxford. So it goes when suburbanites Nick and Honey Addams return home after a night out to find their babysitter, Jessica Lake, dead, her wrists symmetrically bound to the Adams’s bed. Her death pose is shocking; more so is Inspector Lewis (Kevin Whately) and DS Hathaway’s (Laurence Fox) discovery of fetish photographs featuring Jessica in similar restraints. With Jessica as her muse, the provocative “Oxford type” artist, Marion Hammond, used fetish photography to explore the dual nature of passion: innocence and corruption.

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IMMIGRATION IN AMERICA

JOBS

SATURDAY, JULY 21 @ 8:00PM

HOMELAND: IMMIGRATION IN AMERICA presents the story of new immigrants who find themselves walking a fine line between access to and expulsion from the American dream. It’s also a story of American citizens who wonder if legal and illegal immigrants threaten their way of life. These intertwined and complex issues may have a significant effect on the choices people make when they go to the polls in November.

HOMELANDreveals the complex economic, political, personal and cultural dilemmas that are often portrayed as simple choices of right or wrong, legal or illegal. Immigration is not just a short-term border state issue; it is a national and local issue with long-term consequences for communities and the nation as a whole.

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