CONSTITUTION USA

with PETER SAGAL BUILT TO LAST? TUESDAY, MAY 28 @ 7:00PM & 12:00AM EPISODE 4 Ask Americans what the Constitution’s most important feature is, and most will say it’s the guarantees of liberty enshrined in the Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments of the Constitution. Americans are fiercely proud of their freedoms but they continue to argue about what those basic rights are and how...

INDEPENDENT LENS

THE INVISIBLE WAR MONDAY, JANUARY 6 @ 8:00PM The most shameful and best-kept secret in the U.S. military? The epidemic of rape and sexual assault within the ranks. An American female soldier in a combat zone is more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire. A culture of privilege and impunity has resulted in few prosecutions, and the systematic isolation of women — and...

CALL THE MIDWIFE

SEASON 2, EPISODE 7 SUNDAY, MAY 12 @ 6:00PM & 10:00PM On Cynthia’s district rounds, she administers daily insulin to a man who consistently belittles his wife, Annie. Jenny witnesses persecution of a different kind when she looks after a black mother-to-be who is subjected to racial prejudice from neighbors. Fred teaches the midwives to ride a scooter — with amusing and unforeseen...

WASHINGTON WEEK

BENGHAZI HEARINGS FRIDAY, MAY 10 @ 9:00PM During House Oversight Committee hearings this week, three State Department officials disputed the Obama administration’s account of what happened during the attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya last September in which U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three Americans were killed. Charles Babington of the Associated Presswill report...

JAKE SHIMABUKURO

LIFE ON FOUR STRINGS SATURDAY, MAY 10 @ 6:00PM Jake Shimabukuro: Life on Four Stringstells the heartfelt story of a musical sensation whose virtuoso skills on the ukelele have transformed all previous notions of the instrument’s potential as he touches the lives of the young and old who inspire his brilliance. On the road from Los Angeles to New York to Japan, the film captures the...