WASHINGTON WEEK

with GWEN IFILL FRIDAY, JULY 12 @ 6:00PM & 11:00PM This Week: Immigration Reform, Egypt, Revisiting Abortion Laws, Political Sex Scandals and Redemption. The Senate-passed comprehensive immigration reform bill is facing significant hurdles in the House. Republican leaders want a smaller “bite-sized” approach according to House Speaker John Boehner. The biggest sticking point is...

KATMAI

ALASKA’S WILD PENINSULA THURSDAY, JULY 11 @ 12:30 AM A narrow frontier between warm and cold latitudes extends 500 miles from the Alaskan mainland, separating the tempestuous Bering Sea from the Pacific: the Alaska Peninsula, a cloud-cloaked land of active volcanoes, rolling tundra and the greatest concentration of the largest bears on earth. Find out more...

SECRETS OF THE DEAD

ULTIMATE TUT TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 3 @ 6:00PM & 11:00PM More than 90 years ago, in 1922, in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, archaeologist and Egyptologist Howard Carter made the greatest archaeological find in history: the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb and its golden treasures worth nearly a billion dollar. Carter’s find made Tutankhamun the most famous pharaoh in ancient Egyptian history....

FRONTLINE

TWO AMERICAN FAMILIES THURSDAY, JULY 11 @ 7:00PM Since 1992, Bill Moyers has been following the story of two ordinary, hard-working families in Milwaukee — one black, one white — as they battle to keep from sliding into poverty. A remarkable portrait of perseverance, Two American Families raises unsettling questions about the changing nature of the U.S. economy and the fate of a...

LEWIS & CLARK

THE JOURNEY OF THE CORPS OF DISCOVERY TUESDAY, JULY 9 @ 6:00PM & 11:00PM On February 28, 1803, President Thomas Jefferson won approval from Congress for a visionary project, an endeavor that would become one of America’s greatest stories of adventure. Twenty-five hundred dollars were appropriated to fund a small expeditionary group, whose mission was to explore the uncharted West....