INSPECTOR LEWIS

WILD JUSTICE

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM

Rabbis, nuns, mullahs, and Buddhists peacefully commingle with their friar hosts at an interfaith conference at St. Gerard’s college. But when an American female bishop is found dead, poisoned by a glass of the college’s own chianti, Lewis (Kevin Whately) and Hathaway (Laurence Fox) suspect that the bishop’s liberal views led to her murder. That is, until a far more gruesome death occurs, mirroring a macabre murder from a Jacobean Revenge tragedy.

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A LETTER TO ELIA

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 @ 6:00PM

For Martin Scorsese, growing up in Little Italy, seeing On the Waterfront and East of Eden as a young man was a life-changing experience. Scorsese appears on and off camera throughout A Letter to Elia, taking us through Kazan’s life and through his own as well, and through his growing realization that there was an artist behind the camera, someone “who knew me, maybe better than I knew myself.” The film is about being exposed to the right movies at the right moment in your adolescent life, when you’re wide open and ready to connect, to be spurred on by the work up there on the screen, and then, maybe, to chart a course toward making your own movies.

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THE INTERROGATOR

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 @ 7:00PM & 10:00PM

In March 2002, Ali Soufan was sent to interrogate Abu Zubaydah, one of the highest level Al Qaeda operatives in U.S. custody.

Soufan had been at the center of investigations into Al Qaeda both before and after 9/11. One of the few Arabic-speaking FBI agents, he had experience extracting information from Al Qaeda operatives. He tells FRONTLINE his approach was to “outsmart” the individual he was questioning. “You can catch more flies with honey than vinegar,” he says.
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ENGINEERING GROUND ZERO

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 @ 11:00PM and

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 @ 5:00PM

To commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9/11, NOVA presents an epic story of engineering, innovation, and the perseverance of the human spirit. With extraordinary access granted by The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, “Engineering Ground Zero” follows the five-year construction of One World Trade Center (1 WTC) and the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.

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TOP SECRET AMERICA

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER TUESDAY 8 @ 7:00PM & 10:00PM

In the years after September 11th, FRONTLINE produced more than 45 hours of award-winning films documenting the 9/11 attacks and America’s response to them. Now on the 10th anniversary of September 11th, FRONTLINE Producer Michael Kirk — Bush’s War, The Torture Question, and Cheney’s Law — teams up with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Dana Priest, to investigate the dramatic changes that have reshaped America in the last decade. The program examines the history of the secret side of America’s “war on terror.” From the creation of black site prisons abroad and super-secret facilities here in America, to targeted killings and covert wars waged by special forces, and the creation of a multibillion-dollar terrorism-industrial complex, FRONTLINE and Dana Priest ask how a decade of fighting terrorism has reshaped the country and whether it has made us any safer.

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FORGOTTEN ELLIS ISLAND

MONDAY, DECEMBER 12 @ 8:00PM & 11:00PM

Forgotten Ellis Island is the first film (and companion book) to be produced about the immigrant hospital on Ellis Island. Opened in 1902, the hospital grew to twenty-two medical buildings which sprawled across two islands adjacent to Ellis Island, the largest port of entry in the United States. Massive and modern, the hospital was America’s first line of defense against contagious, often virulent disease. In the era before antibiotics, tens of thousands of immigrant patients were separated from family, detained in the hospital, and healed from illness before becoming citizens.

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INSPECTOR LEWIS

OLD, UNHAPPY, FAR OFF THINGS

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM

Luminary graduates from Oxford’s last surviving all-female college are on campus to honor beloved professor Diana Ellerby (Juliet Stevenson, Place of Execution). There is the confident lingerie CEO, the provocative newspaper columnist — and then there’s the passive aggressive Poppy Toynton. Poppy never quite blossomed intellectually like her peers. When Poppy is found dead on the stairs, her seething rage against her fellow graduates exposed, Lewis and Hathaway step into the esteemed circle of women to investigate.

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THE PEOPLE V. LEO FRANK

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 @ 7:30PM & 12:30AM

In the pre-dawn hours of April 27, 1913, the night watchman at an Atlanta pencil factory made a grisly discovery: the body of a young girl. She had been beaten, strangled, and possibly raped. The death of 13-year-old Mary Phagan, a white worker at the factory, quickly became front-page news. Several arrests were made, including Jim Conley, a black janitor at the factory. Also arrested was Leo Frank, the factory’s superintendent and the last person to admit seeing Mary alive.

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A RIDE ALONG THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY

THURSDAY, JUNE 2 @ 7:00PM & 12:00AM

The Lincoln Highway is just a great American road. It was a route first mapped out by the original Lincoln Highway Association in 1913 as the best transcontinental highway. It was the fastest, smoothest and most direct path from New York City to San Francisco. And people have followed and learned to love that route ever since.

Now producer/narrator Rick Sebak (who has made PBS favorites like “A Hot Dog Program” and “A Flea Market Documentary”) has put together a new travelogue celebrating the history and enduring charms of the Lincoln. He talks with highway historians, with motor court operators, restaurateurs, travelers, members of the new Lincoln Highway Association, all sorts of folks who know and help preserve the highway and what’s along it.

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ARMADILLO

TUESDAY, AUGUST 30 @ 8:00PM & 11:00PM

In 2009, Janus Metz and cameraman Lars Skree accompanied a platoon of Danish soldiers to Armadillo, a combat operations base in southern Afghanistan. For six months, often while under fire, they captured the lives of the young soldiers fighting the Taliban in a hostile and confusing environment, where official rhetoric about helping civilians too often met the unforgiving reality of being a foreign occupier. Winner of the Critics’ Week Grand Prix at Cannes, Armadillo is one of the most dramatic and candid accounts of combat to come out of Afghanistan. (90 minutes)

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