BORN TO RUN

THURSDAY, MAY 5 @ 7:00PM & 10:00PM

From foaling barn to finish line, Thoroughbred follows a year in the life of this storied horse, showcasing the beauty of the breed, revealing the people whose lives revolve around the racing industry, and exploring the history and traditions of the Thoroughbred world.

Directed by Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Paul Wagner and narrated by Emmy®-winning actress Kathryn Walker, Thoroughbred captures the flurry of activity trackside and “backside,” the serenity of Kentucky’s horse farms, and the riches of Dubai’s racing operations.

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CHINA’S TERRACOTTA WARRIORS

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12 @ 8:00PM

The life-sized terracotta warriors of China are known throughout the world. This clay army of 8,000 including infantry, archers, generals and cavalry was discovered by archaeologists in 1974 after farmers digging a well near the Chinese city of Xian unearthed pieces of clay sculpted in human form.

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FIGHTING FOR BIN LADEN

TUESDAY, MAY 3 @ 7:00PM & 10:00PM

In the aftermath of the killing of Osama bin Laden, FRONTLINE presents two inside views of the fight against al Qaeda and the Taliban. First, Afghan journalist Najibullah Quraishi — who reported last year’s award-winning FRONTLINE film Behind Taliban Lines — once again journeys deep inside enemy territory. This time, he gains extraordinary access to a band of militants and foreign fighters in Afghanistan who say they’re loyal to bin Laden and are readying a Spring offensive against the U.S.

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ROADS TO MEMPHIS

SATURDAY, MAY 7 @ 7:00PM

On April 4, 1968, escaped convict James Earl Ray shot and killed Dr. Martin Luther King while he lingered on a motel balcony. Roads to Memphis is the fateful narrative of this killer and his prey, set against the seething, turbulent forces in American society at that time.

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SOUTH RIDING

FRIDAY, MAY 6 @ 7:30PM & 12:30AM

It’s 1934, and Sarah Burton, the new headmistress of Kiplington Girls High, is returning to her native, conservative northern town, bringing fiery determination to empower her girls and yank the sorely outdated school into the future. But everything from her fashionable ensembles to her anti-war sentiments and modern ideas attract the disapproval of the stern, brooding landowner, Robert Carne, who doggedly clings to a vanishing way of life even as the past tightens its malicious grip on him. Oppressed by overwhelming debt — and his absent wife’s portrait hanging in the estate he can no longer afford to upkeep — he is forced to send his beloved but unstable daughter, Midge, to Kiplington Girls High, where again, he crosses swords with Sarah.

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ESCAPE FROM AUSCHWITZ

THURSDAY, APRIL 28 @ 7:00PM & 10:00PM

Nazi records show that tens of thousands of Jews from German-occupied territories were sent to Auschwitz to be executed each month. But two Auschwitz prisoners, Rudolph Vrba and Alfred Wetzler, were determined to expose the horrors of the Nazi genocide and stop the killing factories forever. To do that, they had to become the first to escape from the heavily-guarded camp.

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MT. ST. HELENS BACK FROM THE DEAD

SATURDAY, APRIL 30 @ 11:00PM

One of the most violent natural disasters of our time, the colossal eruption of Mt. St. Helens in 1980 blasted away an entire mountainside. Over 200 square miles of pristine forest were buried under millions of tons of lava, ash, mud, and avalanche debris. How could life ever return to this barren moonscape?

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MARWENCOL

TUESDAY, APRIL 26 @ 8:00PM & 11:00PM

On April 8, 2000, Mark Hogancamp was attacked outside a bar in Kingston, New York, by five men who beat him literally to death. Revived by paramedics, Mark had suffered brain damage and physical injuries so severe even his own mother didn’t recognize him. After nine days in a coma and 40 days in the hospital, Mark was discharged with little memory of his previous life.

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MONDAY, JUNE 13 @ 7:00PM & 10:00PM

When police raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar in the Greenwich Village section of New York City on June 28, 1969, the street erupted into violent protests that lasted for the next six days. The Stonewall riots, as they came to be known, marked a major turning point in the modern gay civil rights movement in the United States and around the world.

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LOST IN THE AMAZON

SATURDAY, JUNE 14 @ 11:00PM

On April 20, 1925, Colonel Percy Fawcett, his elder son Jack Fawcett and Jack’s lifelong friend, Raleigh Rimmell, departed from Cuiabá, the capital city of the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, to find “Z” — Col. Fawcett’s name for what he believed to be an ancient city lost in the uncharted jungles of Brazil. The search for the mysterious Lost City of Z would be the great explorer’s last expedition. All three men would vanish without a trace.

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