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The Age of Consequences investigates the impact of climate change on increased resource scarcity, human migration and conflict through the lens of U.S. national security and global stability. Through unflinching case- study analysis, distinguished military admirals, generals and veterans take us beyond the headlines of the conflict Screen programs in Syria, the social unrest of the Arab Spring, the rise of radicalized groups like ISIS and the European refugee online at crisis to lay bare how climate change stressors interact with societal tensions and spark conflict.1x60, 1x90 HD

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In a world that is coming to eschew excessive use of fossil fuels and encourage public transportation, trains are becoming more and more popular. They are faster and more modern, but are they safer? This high-speed, action-packed program joins the pioneers of train technology to discover the thrilling advancements which may usher in a new age of safer, faster and more modern trains—from high-tech laser track sensors, to drones, to alternative systems such as maglevs. 1x60 HD

For the very first time, history is investigated through the prism 170514 of the auction house. In this all-new series, viewers embark on an investigative and genealogical journey where intriguing family histories are revealed through personal artifacts. For many items, this may be the last chance outsiders have to see each object before they disappear into private collections. 6x60 HD

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15 Years of Terror On September 11, 2001, an unimaginable horror unfolded that devastated a nation and the world. Fifteen years later, NOVA traces the evolution of terror strategies from the World Trade Center to today and studies how radical organizations have grown to make use of modern propaganda and social media tools in order to cultivate an army of self-radicalized killers. 1x54 HD

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Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise This unprecedented film celebrates Dr. Maya Angelou by weaving her words with rare and intimate archival photographs and videos which paint hidden moments of her exuberant life during some of America’s most defining moments. From her upbringing in the Depression-era south to her work with Malcolm X in Ghana to her inaugural speech for President Bill Clinton, the film takes us on an incredible journey through the life of a true American icon.1x120 HD

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The Secret History of ISIS Ruby Ridge In a decade-long campaign to change the On August 21, 1992, a firefight broke out Oklahoma City Oklahoma City provides an in-depth and course of world history through extreme acts between Randy Weaver and six U.S. Marshals, provocative exploration of the militia movement of violence, ISIS has been called the most which led to an eleven-day standoff before that rose to prominence in the U.S. in the early dangerous terrorist group in history. FRONTLINE Weaver was finally taken into custody. Drawing 1990s, examining the events that led up to the traces the growth of the Islamic State in upon eyewitness accounts, Ruby Ridge presents bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building The Secret History of ISIS, while also a riveting, minute-by-minute account of the event on April 19, 1995 by Timothy McVeigh. 1x120 HD investigating the repeated warnings of the that helped give rise to the modern American threat by senior global policymakers. 1x54 HD militia movement. 1x60 HD

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st pbsinternational.org century biology is heading for a revolution: are huge, The consequences synthetic biology. but the potential applications are promising. From the production of energy to new bio- materials, synthetic biology could usher in an lower costs and reduced era of greater efficiency, discovers what nature pollution. Biology 2.0 would never have made and what man is in the process of creating. 3x53 HD Ride the Tiger tells the brave and compelling stories of people with mood disorders with a new narrative of scientists and scholars on the Aiming to subvert stereotypes cusp of discovery. about people with mood disorders by raising awareness, reducing stigmas and improving the lives of those affected by these disorders, the film explores questions and connections that are spurring four scientific disciplines of mental health research: genetics, the brain, treatment 1x53 HD and basic science. Biology 2.0: When Biology Biology 2.0: Becomes Synthetic the dramatic advances in genomics, 21 After Memory Hackers Using cutting-edge research, neuroscientists are exploring the precise molecular mechanisms of memory For much of human history, memory. has been seen as a tape recorder that faithfully registers information and replays it back intact. researchers are discovering that memory Now, always being written and is far more malleable, rewritten. As we are discovering the precise mechanisms that explain and can even control our memories, the question is—are we ready? 1x53 HD Ride the Tiger: A Guide Through the Bipolar Brain century and his th century. This film chronicles the life of a century. st visionary whose ideas revolutionized his time, visionary whose ideas revolutionized his time, and ours. 1x53 HD vision that imagined the wireless world of the 21 NICK MANN NICK Space Men Joseph Air Force Captain 1960, In August Kittinger lifted off in a helium balloon, went nearly 20 miles above the earth, stepped out of the balloon and then went hurtling at over four hundred miles per hour back to earth… and survived. Space Men tells the little- known story of Kittinger and the men whose scientific experiments in the stratosphere laid manned space critical groundwork for NASA’s the very idea of program, helping to make 1x52 HD space travel a reality. Over the decades, energy storage technology Over the decades, energy storage technology capacity or has barely budged in power, Even though there have been convenience. some improvements in the last century, expensive, bulky, batteries remain finicky, David and maddeningly short-lived. Host toxic to discover what sets out on a quest Pogue the future has in store for our gadgets and visits scientists, inventors and entrepreneurs who are challenging everything we think we know about batteries. 1x60 HD Tesla seen by many as has come to be Tesla Nikola a tragic figure—a brilliant inventor who died impoverished and largely forgotten, eclipsed by names such as Edison and Marconi. Yet it was his technology that helped drive the electrical age in the 20 SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES Search for the Super Battery

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U.S. POLITICS NATIONAL ARCHIVES & RECORDS ADMINISTRATION President Trump Trump’s Road FRONTLINE examines the key moments that shaped President-elect Donald Trump through to the White House Trump’s Road to the White House is a interviews with advisors, business associates FRONTLINE investigation of how Donald and biographers. These stories reveal how Trump defied expectations to win the Trump transformed himself from a real estate presidency. Through interviews with key developer to entertainer to the next president players, the film shows how Trump rallied of the United States of America. 1x60 HD millions of supporters and defeated adversaries. The one-hour special will also The Battle of Chosin show who Trump plans to bring into the The Choice 2016 As troops of the U.S. Army’s X Corps were The Choice 2016 is an interwoven investigative White House with him. 1x60 HD pushing north through the Korean peninsula to biography of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump drive North Korea’s invading Communist Army that draws on dozens of interviews from those Divided States of America who know the candidates best—friends and Drawing on extensive interviews with out of democratically-held South Korea in 1950, family, advisers and adversaries—as well White House and Congressional insiders they found themselves completely surrounded as authors, journalists and political insiders. from both the Democratic and Republican by more than 85,000 Chinese soldiers. FRONTLINE goes behind the headlines Trump parties, as well as FRONTLINE’s vast body The Battle of Chosin recounts the conflict in and Clinton have generated to investigate of reporting on the Obama era, Divided intimate detail through eyewitness accounts, what has shaped two of the most polarizing States of America digs into the causes of presenting a harrowing narrative of combat presidential candidates in modern history, America’s intense polarization and questions and survival in the first major military clash of where they came from, how they lead and why how the next U.S. president and Congress the Cold War. 1x120 HD they want to take on one of the most difficult can govern in an era of complex challenges. jobs imaginable. 1x114 HD 2x120, 4x60 HD

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Wild Ways Since the start of the Industrial Revolution, human development has usurped the homelands Business of Disaster The Race Underground of the largest mammals on Earth and confined Business of Disaster follows a FRONTLINE In the late 19th century, Henry Melville Whitney them to parks and preserves. But recent and National Public Radio investigation to find of Boston and of New research shows that these islands of habitat are out who profits when disaster strikes. The film York pursued the dream of building America’s too small and disconnected to sustain healthy focuses on Superstorm Sandy, the hurricane first subway. The Race Underground tells the populations of animals. Wild Ways showcases that hit New Jersey in 2012: the thousands still story of these two rival American engineers in new, cutting-edge solutions for making room not home, the agencies that were supposed to two different cities—their rich, powerful and for wildlife on an ever-more crowded planet help and the companies that made millions. sometimes corrupt interests and an invention through the new approach of connectivity 1x54 HD that changed the lives of millions. 1x60 HD conservation. 1x53 HD

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Building Chernobyl’s Mega Tomb On April 26, 1986, a catastrophic blast blew the lid off Chernobyl’s Reactor No. 4 in an explosion 400 times more potent than the Hiroshima bomb. With the concrete sarcophagus built over the reactor only meant to last 30 years, Building Chernobyl’s Mega Tomb follows a team of international engineers as they race against time to build a new steel shelter over the disaster site. 1x60 HD

HISTORY, SCIENCE Defying the Nazis: The Sharps’ War Co-directed by Ken Burns and Artemis Joukowsky, Defying the Nazis tells the story of Waitstill and Martha Sharp and their two year mission in Europe. Before and after the start of COURTESY OF THE LINDA LEAR CENTER FOR SPECIAL COLLECTIONS & ARCHIVES, CONNECTICUT COLLEGE CONNECTICUT & ARCHIVES, COLLECTIONS SPECIAL FOR CENTER LEAR LINDA THE OF COURTESY WWII, the American minister and his wife helped to save hundreds of imperiled political dissidents and Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazi occupation.1x79, 1x60 HD

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Rachel Carson When Rachel Carson’s seminal book, Silent Spring, was published in 1962 it became a phenomenon that shaped the modern Munich ’72 and Beyond Pedro E. Guerrero: environmental movement. As the debate Munich ’72 and Beyond tells the story of the A Photographer’s Journey about pesticides continues today, this two-hour Munich Massacre during the 1972 summer Discover the remarkable life and work of Pedro biography draws upon the latest research to Olympics where eleven Israeli Olympic team E. Guerrero, a Mexican American born and provide an illuminating portrait of writer and members were taken hostage and subsequently raised in segregated Mesa, Arizona, who had scientist Rachel Carson. 1x120 HD executed by eight members of the Palestine an extraordinary international photography ALSO AVAILABLE Liberation Organization’s Black September career. Using an exclusive interview with faction. This striking documentary retells the Guerrero along with his stunning images, Earth Days 1x102 HD story with personal interviews from those related the film explores his collaborations with three Ocean Animal Emergency 1x60 HD to the murdered athletes and documents the of the most iconic American artists of the building of a memorial 44 years later. 1x45 HD 20th century. 1x53 HD

pbsinternational.org 5 HISTORY’S MYSTERIES Edgar Allen Poe: Buried Alive Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive is a docudrama that tells the fascinating and revealing story of one of the world’s best-known—and most misunderstood— writers and reveals the way in which more than any other writer of his time, Poe tapped into what it means to be a human being in our modern and sometimes frightening world. 1x56 HD Mega Croc vs. Super Snake A mining operation in Cerrejon, Northern Colombia opened a window into earth’s history 65 million years ago, revealing a world teaming with giant reptiles. Follow scientists in real time as they piece together the size and strength of the 43-foot snake, Titanoboa, and a 50-foot crocodile to discover which was truly the apex predator of this lost world. 1x60 HD Van Gogh’s Ear In 1888 in Southern France, Vincent van Gogh produced technicolor pieces of art that have electrified the world, but the dark events of that year remain a mystery. Featuring brand new discoveries, Van Gogh’s Ear investigates that seismic year and finds out what really happened the night Van Gogh took a razor to his ear. 1x60 HD Alcatraz: Escaping the Rock On June 11, 1962, bank robbers Frank Morris and brothers Clarence and John Anglin escaped the prison walls at Alcatraz and set off on the frigid waters of the San Francisco Bay in a homemade raft, never to be seen again. Alcatraz: Escaping the Rock uses modern science, recreations and archival material to tell the story of one of history’s greatest, most mysterious prison escapes, establishing for the very first time that escape was entirely possible. 1x53 HD Vampire Legend For more than 200 years, popular culture has thrilled in the horror of the vampire. For the first time, extraordinary new archaeological finds, scientific experimentation and expert investigation reassess not just when but where the walking dead were first thought to stalk the living.1x55 HD Craven Street Bones When skeletal remains of at least 10 people turned up in the basement of Benjamin Franklin’s residence, people wondered if the Founding Father might have had a much darker side. But they weren’t the victims of violent acts, they were used for the purposes of an illegal anatomy school that helped shape modern medicine. 1x55 HD Jamestown’s Dark Winter A team of archaeologists excavating the site of an early American colony discover something surprising: the remains of a young woman, dating back to 1609, buried in the trash layer of a cellar. With the help of forensic anthropologists, the extraordinary and frightening story of this young woman’s dismemberment and cannibalization comes to life. 1x55 HD

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In Defense Of Food Based on Michael Pollan’s best-selling book, In Defense of Food shows how a combination of uncertain and incomplete science, politicians and clever marketing campaigns have shaped the world’s eating habits in ways that have made us continuously less healthy. From crowded American supermarkets to the vast plains of Tanzania, In Defense of Food examines how the modern Western diet, especially as it has evolved over just the past few decades, is doing serious damage to our health. 1x55 HD

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Treasures of the Earth All around us is Earth’s bounty—spectacular mountains, Caribbean blue oceans and abundant, delicious food crops. But what we can see is only a part of the riches Earth provides. Its hidden assets are some of our most important natural resources and they have helped shape humankind. Treasures of the Earth is a three-part series that journeys deep inside the Earth to uncover the mysteries of how these treasures were created and explores how they have allowed humans to evolve and build great civilizations. 3x53 HD

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FIRELIGHT PRODUCTIONS REUTERS/CHRISTIAN HARTMANN FIRELIGHT PRODUCTIONS Egypt: The Gathering Storm Following the uprising in Egypt where people are struggling to emerge from six decades of brutal dictatorship, fear and propaganda, Egypt: The Gathering Storm pieces together the real story behind Egypt’s quest for democracy. 1x55 HD Egypt: Beyond the Pyramids Terror in Europe From fishermen and tea sellers to street dancers As Europe reels from a terror onslaught, top ALSO AVAILABLE and Cairo’s kamikaze taxi drivers, there is more counter-terror officials describe their struggle to Egypt in Crisis 1x54 HD to Egypt than most foreigners get to see. Sharing contain the unprecedented threat revealed by the day-to-day lives of ordinary Egyptians, this attacks in France and Belgium. Terror in Europe The Brothers 1x25 HD film is a dramatic and entertaining journey where goes inside Europe’s fight against the rise of the many faces of this complicated land are truly Islamist terrorism. 1x54 HD brought to light. 1x55 HD

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Moveable Feast With Fine Cooking Season 4 Moveable Feast with Fine Cooking takes viewers on a culinary journey with host Pete Evans, an award-winning Australian chef, restaurateur and cookbook author. In each episode, Pete sets the tone for a pop-up feast in different, unique locations. Joined by local chefs, they work against the clock to prepare a multi-course menu that will inspire home cooks everywhere. 13x26 HD ALSO AVAILABLE School of the Future Season 1 13x26 HD Recent years have seen stories documenting the decline of American schools and citing Season 2 13x26 HD evidence that students are falling behind their peers in other countries. NOVA meets the innovators who are building the School of the Future, following new ideas from the laboratory Season 3 13x26 HD into the field where they’re being tested. Out of this rich mosaic will emerge a vision of schools that will better serve the United States’ children and society for the next century and beyond. 1x113, 2x54 HD ARTS & CULTURE WGBH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION

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Leslie Caron: The Reluctant Star Leslie Caron, the beloved star of classic American cinema, is one of the last witnesses to a golden age of Hollywood. This film unfolds as a journey that takes us back to a glorious time in The Fantasy Sports Gamble Murder of a President Hollywood, offering a rare and privileged glimpse Over the past several years, daily fantasy sports On the morning of July 2, 1881, a wildly into the world of the beloved icons of film, dance have become big business, with fans betting an delusional shirker shot President James Garfield and theatre of the 20th century. Leslie Caron: estimated $2.6 billion in 2015. Now, with several as he was walking through a Washington railroad The Reluctant Star reveals the triumphs and U.S. states questioning the legality of daily station. Murder of a President tells the story of disappointments of a spectacular career fantasy sports, FRONTLINE and The New York the shooting and the excruciating final months and turbulent personal life. 1x53 HD Times have teamed up for a documentary that of Garfield’s life, tracing his unlikely journey investigates the reality behind the rise of daily from a log cabin in rural Ohio to the Oval Office, ALSO AVAILABLE fantasy sports and the proliferation of online and recounts the historical moments that Mel Brooks: Make a Noise 1x52 HD sports betting despite the laws meant to stop it. occurred because of the assassination. 1x54 HD 1x113, 2x54 HD

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1x60 HD 2x60, pbsinternational.org 500 to the Nazi Holocaust. Ancient Bible Destinations of Greece This spiritual journey throughout Greece breathes life into the history of the early days of Christianity and offers relevant and powerful insights into the events told in 4x30 HD 2x60, the Bible. Martin Luther this rousing Narrated by Hugh Bonneville, docudrama chronicles the story of Martin harrowing quest to upend the power Luther’s structure that had ruled Europe for a thousand years and set history on a new trajectory universal education and towards equality, rights. The film also considers the women’s legacy lesser-known side of Luther’s darker, that led to the rise of nationalism and links from The Road Christ to Constantine The Road from Christ to Constantine joins The Road author and distinguished history professor viewers on Jonathan Phillips as he takes a captivating adventure to the very places through where Christianity began. Traveling four centuries and seven countries in the and Europe, Middle East, North Africa viewers see how a small movement became Roman Empire. the official religion of the 6x52 HD COURTESY OF BOETTCHER+TRINKLEIN INC. BOETTCHER+TRINKLEIN OF COURTESY RELIGION

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Policing thePolicing Poli the deaths of Over the past several years, the hands of American unarmed black men at debate a national police officers have sparked policing and civil rights, causing about race, Department of Justice to step in and the U.S. mandate reform at several troubled police staff writer forces. FRONTLINE and New Yorker up-close viewers on a rare, Jelani Cobb take journey inside the Newark, New Jersey police been ordered to change its department that’s ways. 1x54 HD

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3x120, 6x60 HD 3x120, outcome of the United States’ experience in the Great War. EVERETT HISTORICAL/SHUTTERSTOCK.COM The involvement of the United States in the First World War forever changed the way the nation War The involvement of the United States in the First World the saw itself and its place in the world. The great conflict would also fundamentally change undermining the progressive movement, giving birth to the national nature of American society, Americans in the culture and changing the place of women and African reordering security state, in time for the Available role in almost every aspect of the American economy. the government’s 100 The Great War The Great War

the Middle East. 1x114, 2x56 HD Obama and how it could shape the future of Obama and how it could shape the future of the ongoing feud between Netanyahu and the essential context needed to understand Netanyahu at War provides Netanyahu at War and Washington, interviews with political insiders in Jerusalem interviews with political insiders in Jerusalem the world. Told through riveting footage and through the world. Told two men with fundamentally different views of two men with fundamentally different views eyes of Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu, eyes of Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu, United States-Israeli relationship through the United States-Israeli relationship Netanyahu at W at Netanyahu stormy history of the FRONTLINE traces the CHILDREN’S PROGRAMMING

ARTHUR chronicles the adventures of an eight-year-old aardvark through engaging, emotional stories that explore issues faced by real kids. Aimed at viewers aged 4–8 and celebrating 20 years this season, this series fosters interest in reading and writing as well In the Emmy® Award-winning series WORDWORLD, words as encourages positive social skills. come alive and save the day in the first preschool series 7x30 & 1x60 Special HD where words are truly the stars of the show. WORDWORLD is a colorful, vibrant world of words and is home to the lovable, legible WordFriends—animals whose bodies are made up of the letters that spell the word they are. 45x27 HD

PEEP is a groundbreaking animated series that gives wings to the innovative idea of teaching Follow six amazing kids who science to preschoolers. Young will take you on action-packed viewers follow a newly-hatched adventures to confront Samurai chicken (Peep), a smart and sassy in Shogun-era Japan, duel with robin (Chirp), and an endearingly gladiators in Ancient Rome and egotistical duck (Quack) on all even outwit a nasty priest in their wide-eyed adventures— Ancient Egypt. The kids must from discovering shadows, to use their wits, skills and their investigating mysterious tracks, to smarts to outwit the Bad Guys learning about gravity. 34x23 HD and survive. 26x23 HD

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Black America Since MLK: With All Thy Might: INC. PROJECT, FILM ROBINSON JACKIE THE And Still I Rise The Battle Against Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. sets out to Birth of a Nation explore the last five decades of African American With All Thy Might is a historical documentary history, inspiring viewers to examine the forces that tells the little-known story of William Monroe and events that have shaped their own lives— Trotter, a fire-breathing editor of a Boston black as well as the American nation, culture and newspaper who helped launch a nationwide society—since the end of the Civil Rights movement in 1915 to ban a flagrantly racist film, movement. 4x60 HD The Birth of a Nation. This film tells the story of Jackie Robinson a black civil rights movement few are familiar On April 15, 1947, Jack Roosevelt Robinson lifted an entire race and nation on his shoulders when SOCIAL ISSUES with—one that occurred a full 40 years before the one we know. 1x90 HD he crossed baseball’s color line. A supremely gifted athlete and ardent integrationist, Robinson

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HARDLINE FILMS in the Stone Behind the Sword in the Stone is a retrospective documentary that looks back at the making of director John Boorman’s 1981 movie Excalibur.

Time for School Self-described as the toughest film he ever WGBH OF COURTESY made, Excalibur told the tale of King Arthur and Time for School puts a human face on an the Sword in the Stone and helped start the under-reported global crisis by spotlighting careers of actors Liam Neeson, Gabriel Byrne, the journey of five extraordinary children as Helen Mirren and Patrick Stewart. In this one they struggle to get a basic education. Time hour film, these lead actors join other cast and for School introduces viewers to Nanavi in Benin; I’ll Have What Phil’s Having crew to share their memories from the filming Jefferson in Brazil; Neeraj in India; Joab in Kenya; Phil Rosenthal, Emmy® Award-winning producer of this Arthurian masterpiece. 1x52 HD and Shugufa in Afghanistan on their first days of and creator of Everybody Loves Raymond, brings school and follows them over the next 12 years. ALSO AVAILABLE his unique brand of humor to his search for the 1x85 HD world’s best food. I’ll Have What Phil’s Having is The 50 Year Party: an unforgettable six-part food and travel series ALSO AVAILABLE London, Glamour and Royalty that dishes up sublime fare bursting onto the Separate and Unequal 2x30 HD at Annabel’s 1x59 HD international culinary scene, hidden delicacies and a hearty dose of laughs. 6x54 HD

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My Brother’s Bomber For 25 years, FRONTLINE producer Ken Dornstein has been haunted by the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland—the terrorist act that killed 270 people, including his older brother David. Now, in this emotional and suspenseful film, Dornstein sets out to find the men responsible for one of the worst attacks on Americans before 9/11. From the ruins and chaos of post-Qaddafi Libya, Dornstein hunts for clues to the identities and whereabouts of the suspects, who he tracks for almost five years across the Middle East and Europe in this real-life spy thriller. 3x54, 1x90 HD Confronting ISIS HISTORY Reporting from Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Jordan and Turkey, Confronting ISIS examines the successes, failures and challenges of the U.S.-led fight to degrade and destroy ISIS. This two-hour special investigates as ISIS loses ground in the region, but strikes out abroad. 1x115, 2x54 HD

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Nasser’s Republic: The Making of Modern Egypt JONATHAN SILVERS In 1952 a young Egyptian colonel named Gamal Abdel Nasser led a coup that became a revolution, winning the support of millions of his countrymen. Over the next 18 years Dead Reckoning: The Boys of ’36 he challenged Western hegemony abroad, The Boys of ’36 recounts the remarkable confronted Islamism at home, established the War, Crime and Justice from journey of nine working class boys from the region’s first military authoritarian regime and WW2 to the War on Terror University of Washington who took the rowing faced deep divisions among the Arab people. This three-part series reveals that the model of world and the United States by storm when A man of enormous charisma and ambition, justice ingeniously conceived by the Allies in their eight-oar crew team captured the gold Nasser died at 52 with his dreams of a new the wake of the Second World War has evolved medal at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. Their Egypt in tatters. He had given the Arab world a into a standard by which all conflicts are judged. unexpected victory—and the obstacles they new way to see itself, but the time has come for The series explores the origins of the Allied overcame to achieve it—inspired a nation that world to confront Nasser’s legacy. 1x56 HD response to three unique situations, along with struggling to emerge from the depths of the transformative conflicts and atrocities that have— Depression. 1x54 HD for 70 years—shaped conceptions of war and peace. 3x60 HD

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This Old House Season 37 Inside Assad’s Syria Emmy® Award-winning series THIS OLD HOUSE FRONTLINE correspondent Martin Smith goes follows home renovations from start to finish with inside Syria to report from government-controlled WGBH OF COURTESY America’s favorite team of experts–Norm Abram, areas as war rages. With on-the-ground reporting Tom Silva, Rich Trethewey, Roger Cook and and firsthand accounts from Syrians caught in the Kevin O’Connor. 26x23 HD crisis, this film shines new light on the ongoing conflict.1x54 HD The Nuclear Option HISTORY, SCIENCE ALSO AVAILABLE NOVA investigates how the realities of Syria Behind the Lines 1x53 HD climate change, the inherent limitations of Battle Zones: renewable energy sources and the optimism and enthusiasm of a new generation of nuclear HD Ukraine & Syria 1x52 engineers is seeding a renaissance in nuclear technology. 1x60 HD HISTORY, SOCIAL ISSUES ALSO AVAILABLE Nuclear Meltdown Disaster 1x53 HD Uranium: Twisting the Dragon’s Tail 1x114, 2x55, 3x51 HD Inside Japan’s Nuclear Meltdown 1x53 HD

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The rise and fall of the Black Panther Party ERIC ISSELEE/SHUTTERSTOCK.COM during the 1960s and beyond is the story of a growing pride in black culture and more Command and Control militant demands for justice and racial equality. Command and Control tells the terrifying, true Renowned documentarian Stanley Nelson story of what can happen when the weapons masterfully assembles rare archival footage built to protect us threaten to become the that contextualizes the history of the Panthers. very source of our own destruction. Based 1x114, 2x54 HD on bestseller by Eric Are You Smarter ALSO AVAILABLE Schlosser and told in minute-by-minute detail than Your Pet? of a single accident through the accounts of Air Klansville U.S.A. 1x53 HD From counting canines to safe-cracking Force personnel, weapon designers and first The African Americans: cockatoos, Are You Smarter Than Your Pet? is responders, the story reveals the incredible packed with entertaining revelations and mind- Many Rivers to Cross 6x53 HD chain of events that brought America to the boggling experiments that shed light on animal brink of nuclear disaster in 1980 in Damascus, Freedom Summer 1x120 HD intelligence and make us see our own brains in Arkansas. 1x120, 1x90 HD an entirely new way. The results are surprising, hilarious and often extraordinary. 2x44 HD

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HEINZ FREMKE Earth: The Inside Story Trace the geologic story of our home planet, beginning with its formation four-and-a-half The Nazi Games— billion years ago and continuing with its evolution to the present. Shot in top geologic hot spots 2016 THIRTEEN PRODUCTIONS LLC PRODUCTIONS THIRTEEN 2016 Berlin 1936 on all seven continents and interspersed with The 1936 Olympic Games in National Socialist footage of earthquakes and volcanoes, this film Berlin turned a relatively ho-hum sports festival features a diverse group of leading geologists into a first-rate global event and mass media who reveal the latest thinking about how the spectacle, a status quo from which the Olympic earth works. 1x57 HD Games have never looked back. The Nazi Games is the first film to show that many of the ALSO AVAILABLE grand themes from the 1936 games in Berlin The Talk: Race in America Life’s Rocky Start 1x53 HD still underscore contemporary Olympic Games Told from multiple points of view, The Talk is today. 1x53 HD Italy’s Mystery Mountains 1x57 HD a two-hour documentary that presents five ALSO AVAILABLE personal stories illustrating the increasingly Making North America 3x53 HD necessary conversation taking place in homes Jesse Owens 1x53 HD 1x52 HD and communities across the United States Alaska’s Wild Peninsula Olympic Dreams 1x55 HD between parents of color and their children Avalanche! 1x57 about how to behave if they are ever stopped by the police. 1x120, 1x60 HD

14 pbsinternational.org ALSO AVAILABLE FROM PBS INTERNATIONAL * ALL FILMS ARE HIGH DEFINITION EXCEPT WHERE NOTED ARTS & CULTURE Secrets, Politics and Torture The Poisoner’s Handbook Learn how forensic chemistry was used in the early FRONTLINE tells the dramatic inside story of one SCIENCE 20th century to convict murderers. 2x54, 1x113 American Ballet Theater: A History of the CIA’s most controversial programs. 1x55 Delve into the rich history of one of the world’s The Bloody Truth The Roosevelts: An Intimate History An international team of researchers discover preeminent ballet companies. 1x104 Supplements and Safety Ken Burns’ new documentary weaves together An extensive investigation that illuminates the tissue samples in central Africa that shed a new the stories of Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Dorothea Lange: public health issues within the multibillion dollar and surprising light on the origins of HIV. 1x52 Roosevelt, three members of one of the most Grab a Hunk of Lightning vitamin and supplement industry. 1x54 Explore the life, passion and uncompromising prominent and influential families in American Building the World’s vision of the woman behind the camera, whose The Rise of ISIS politics. 7x60 Fastest Clipper Ship Shipbuilders take on a near impossible enduring images document five decades of FRONTLINE examines the miscalculations and Seeds of Conflict American history. 1x56, 1x110 mistakes behind the brutal rise of ISIS. 1x53 challenge: to recreate one of the greatest Examine the seeds of today’s Middle East conflict, sailing ships ever known. 1x45 Girls in the Band The Taliban Hunters sown in pre-World War I Ottoman Palestine. 1x56 Hear the poignant, untold stories of female A group of around 100 dedicated cops take the Chasing Pluto jazz and big band instrumentalists and their fight to the Taliban as the front-line commandos Who Killed Jimmy Hoffa? NOVA captures New Horizon’s flyby of Pluto, Explore Teamster president Jimmy Hoffa’s final groundbreaking journeys from the late 1930s against a ruthless enemy. 1x49 the culmination of the spacecraft’s three-billion- days, with a window on the post-war era labor mile journey to reveal the first-ever detailed to the present day. 1x62, 1x88 Terror in Little Saigon movement. 1x55 images of the strange, icy world. 1x53 Jerome Robbins: FRONTLINE and ProPublica investigate a series E.O. Wilson—Of Ants and Men Something to Dance About of unsolved murders and attacks on Vietnamese- HUMAN INTEREST The first and only documentary on Robbins American journalists, uncovering a trail from The story of the famed biologist and Pulitzer profiles this complex mid-century artist.1x114, 2x54 American cities to jungles in Southeast Asia. 1x54 Alfred & Jakobine Prize-winning author’s lifelong love for the The 48,000 kilometer romance story of a man, natural world and the groundbreaking research Making Space: The Trouble with Chicken a woman and an old London taxi. 1x52, 1x74 that would establish him as the foremost Five Women Changing Examine the spread of pathogens in chicken authority on ants. 1x112 the Face of Architecture and why the food-safety system isn’t stopping Caring for Mom and Dad A new generation of women is creating some of the threat. 1x54 An intimate look at the issues facing family Giraffes: The Forgotten Giants today’s most iconic architectural designs and this caregivers who are out on the front lines An exciting look into the secret life of giraffes, film reveals how these women are succeeding in struggling to balance work, families and caring as scientists race to understand how these HISTORY 1x50 a profession long dominated by men. 1x50 for their parents. 1x54 magnificent creatures communicate. 1964 Mary Tyler Moore Coming Back with Wes Moore The Great Math Mystery Journey into the year that cities across the U.S. A provocative exploration of math’s astonishing Revisit iconic moments from Moore’s career, erupted in violence and Americans tried to make Learn why some veterans easily reintegrate into including her early films and her work as a society after deployment and why some struggle. power across the centuries that ponders sense of the assassination of the president. 1x114 why math works so well when decoding the dancer. 1x56 3x55 American Comandante universe. 1x53 Pioneers of Television The story of William Alexander Morgan, one of 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Side The story of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow’s LIFESTYLE next wave of technological innovation in Wilder, Journey inside a Sudanese refugee camp. 2x55 two-year crime spree that ended with their death Colder, Safer, Faster. 4x60 at a police roadblock Louisiana. 1x52 Ask This Old House Through a Lens Darkly The Ask This Old House team travels to Secrets of the Colosseum The first documentary to explore the role of Dick Cavett’s Vietnam homeowners’ doorsteps and personally tackles A team of modern builders try to replicate some A reexamination of the conflict of the Vietnam photography in shaping the identity, aspirations, viewer home improvement problems. 364x27 of the amazing spectacles said to have been and social emergence of African Americans from War through the prism of interviews conducted * staged in the iconic Colosseum. 1x53 slavery to the present. 1x55 by the iconic talk show host. 1x54 Jacques Pépin: Heart and Soul Jacques Pépin brings you his final series with Victorian Rebel: Marianne North Trash Dance In Their Own Words more than 100 recipes demonstrating his The story of the intrepid adventurer’s discovery Explore some of the 20th century’s greatest Two dozen trash collectors and their trucks impeccable technique. 26x24, 1x60 Special of rare plant species and her extraordinary perform an extraordinary dance spectacle. 1x54 public figures, illuminating their fascinating artistic legacy of over a thousand paintings. 1x46 personalities and profound cultural and historical Made in Spain with José Andrés Walt Disney impact. 3x55 Chef José Andrés takes viewers to every corner An examination of Walt Disney’s complex life and SOCIAL ISSUES Inside the Court of Henry VIII of Spain, highlighting his favorite markets, continuing legacy. 2x112, 4x54 vineyards, restaurants, artisans and more. 26x24 The veil is pulled back to expose the vicious * CyberWar Threat rivalries and conspiracies that characterized An examination of the chilling new reality of CURRENT 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An investigation into the rise of deadly become one of the United States’ most beloved Egypt in Crisis 26x27 drug-resistant bacteria. 1x53 and mourned leaders. 4x54 * FRONTLINE examines the rise and rapid fall League of Denial: The New Yankee Workshop of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood. 1x54 MAKERS 2 Hosted by master carpenter Norm Abram, each The NFL’s Concussion Crisis Six new documentaries in the MAKERS series Generation Like FRONTLINE reveals the hidden story of the episode offers step-by-step instructions for Examine the evolving, complicated relationship feature groundbreaking American women in building furniture and woodworking projects. 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Underwater Pompeii is an incredible 21st century restoration project as well as an inside look at the debauched, riotous historical world it reveals—a world that has remained untouched at the bottom of the Bay of Naples for hundreds of years. 1x60 HD

Iceman Reborn After Stonehenge Out of the Maya Tombs Perhaps no single human body has revealed A team of archaeologists are excavating an Painted vases—looted from tombs—have more about life on earth than Otzi—a miracu- ancient village in Cambridgeshire, England opened an extraordinary window on the ancient lously preserved mummy from Neolithic Europe. known as “The British Pompeii,” that has Maya. But the race to unearth these treasures NOVA travels with artist Gary Staab to Bolzano, transformed history’s picture of life in Bronze Age has resulted in vast destruction. Out of the Maya Italy as he visits the iceman in person and then Britain. Inside perfectly preserved roundhouses, Tombs explores the royal life and rich mythology builds a new Otzi from resin and clay. The the team has discovered everything from of the Maya, as well as the tangled issues world’s leading Otzi experts reveal their latest Britain’s oldest wheel to swords used in battle. surrounding looted art. 1x55 HD findings about his life and times and the cutting The biggest revelation was proof of technology edge DNA research tracing the Neolithic man’s needed to produce cloth which was never before living descendants. 1x55 HD seen in Britain and proved these villagers’ lives were anything but primitive. 1x55 HD

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