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© SEQOYA FOR SHUTTERSTOCK.COM PBS INTERNATIONAL SEASON 1: It's 1953, and Sidney Chambers is vicar of CATALOG "I have never seen a priest make murder Grantchester, a quiet village just outside Cambridge. But when his business." one of his parishioners dies in suspicious circumstances, Sidney quickly finds that people confide things in a parish priest that James Norton stars as the handsome, jazz-loving vicar Sidney Chambers, they would never tell police. 6x60 HD with Robson Green as his law-enforcement ally, Inspector Geordie Keating, in Grantchester, a mystery series based on the acclaimed novels by James SEASON 2: Sidney Chambers and Detective Inspector Geordie Runcie. 19x60 HD Keating face a series of fresh cases in a new season that focuses on matchmaking as well as murder. 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MARKS FALL 2018 10 Guest Street Vice President, Sales Manager, Inflight Director, Program and Project Manager, Marketing & Boston, MA 02135 USA PBS Distribution Americas, France, Switzerland, Media Acquisition Program Development Strategy Manager Phone: +1.617.208.0735 Phone: +1.617.208.0735 Greece, Turkey, Oceania Phone: +1.617.659.7921 Phone: +1.617.208.0727 Phone: +1.617.208.0747 pbsinternational.org [email protected] Phone: +1.617.208.0725 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] BETSY LEBLANC GERMAINE DEAGAN SWEET DANIELA DESLAURIERS FRONT COVER: WORLD'S GREATEST WORLD'S GREATEST: SEQOYA FOR Director ANNA ALVORD Managing Director, Senior Analyst SHUTTERSTOCK.COM CITIES | NATURAL WONDERS | ANIMAL ENCOUNTERS | ISLANDS | U.S., United Kingdom, Sales Manager Co-Productions and Phone: +1.617.208.0732 BACK COVER: Scandinavia, Asia, Germany, Iberia, Drama Acquisitions [email protected] PHOTO CREDIT HERE JOURNEYS | MAN MADE WONDERS | 36 X 60 HD Eastern Europe, Africa Italy, Middle East Phone: +1.617. 620-7036 Phone: +1.617.208.0737 Phone: +1.617.208.0728 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] HISTORY SCIENCE HISTORY HISTORY HISTORY NEW RELEASES NEW for inflight 2018 FALL BRETT SEYMOUR, NATIONAL PARK SERVICE) COURTESY OF WGBH COURTESY OF WGBH COURTESY OF WGBH JOHN C. SMITH Last B-24 Addiction Eugenics Crusade Operation Bridge Rescue Crossing the Empty Quarter In December 1944, the TulsAmerican B-24 NOVA joins scientists and sufferers alike as The Eugenics Crusade tells the story of the NOVA explores an extraordinary engineering In 1930 Omani Sheikh Saleh bin Khalut and bomber disappeared off the coast of Croatia. they probe the mysteries of addiction. They are unlikely–and largely unknown–campaign to wonder of ancient China—the Covered Englishman Bertram Thomas made the first The plane was a WW2 icon –the last B-24 built discovering that addiction is not simply a lack breed a “better” American race, tracing the Bridge—intertwining three immersive, actuality- recorded crossing of the Rub Al Khali, the Empty in Tulsa and paid for by the factory workers. of willpower; drug abuse produces significant rise of the movement that turned the fledgling driven threads. The film explores the race to Quarter—the vast, arid wilderness at the heart NOVA joins the daring mission to survey the chemical changes in the brain. What’s worse, science of heredity into a powerful instrument restore three spectacular ancient covered of Arabia. Now three men, two Omani explorers wreckage and recover the lost airmen. 1x60 HD many addictions start with prescription or even of social control. Populated by figures both bridges from the Ming and Qing dynasties and a Briton, take on the challenge to recreate over-the-counter painkillers for entirely legitimate celebrated and obscure, The Eugenics Crusade in Taishun County, Zhejiang to reveal their that journey and walk from Salalah in Oman to ailments. And it is not just drugs—alcohol, sugar, is an often-revelatory portrait of an America at former glory, and follows archaeologists on Doha in Qatar—a journey of more than 1,000 caffeine, even exercise can incite addictive once strange and eerily familiar. 2x60 HD a race to unearth the remains of one of the kilometers across one of the most dangerous behaviors. In the midst of the opioid crisis, and oldest covered bridges dating from 250BC places in the world. In this terrifying challenge in a world in which many other diseases can be in Chengdu, Central China to expose its they battle over giant dunes and through vicious traced to addictive behavior, NOVA investigates: engineering secrets. Operation Bridge Rescue sandstorms, searching constantly for wells as CURRENT AFFAIRS how do addictions work? And how can we resolve also charts the ambitious attempt to rebuild a their water supplies run dangerously low. Can this dire social issue? 1x60 HD replica nineteenth century covered bridge in they make it, or will sickness, fatigue and injury New York State to reveal how these unique defeat them? Their struggle is an inspirational ALSO AVAILABLE crossings evolved in the West. 1x60 HD story of courage and determination. 1x60 HD Chasing Heroin 2x53, 1x114 HD ARTS & CULTURE HISTORY HISTORY SCIENCE CHAIKOM FOR SHUTTERSTOCK FOR CHAIKOM COLLECTION OF THE JOHN AND MABLE RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART THE ART STATE MUSEUM OF FLORIDA, FLORIDA UNIVERSITY STATE Thailand Cave Rescue (w.t.) In early July, the world held its breath as a courageous team of international cave divers SGT. ANNA PONGO joined Thai Navy Seals to rescue 12 young boys and their soccer coach, who were stranded ???????? for nearly two weeks inside a flooded cave in Thailand. NOVA presents a dramatic, inside look at the science behind the rescue. In this The Mayo Clinic The Circus Rise of the Superstorms groundbreaking new film, NOVA viewers and The Mayo Clinic chronicles the history of this This four-hour miniseries tells the story of one In summer 2017, three monster hurricanes online visitors will hear from the children, PICTURES PROVIDENCE unique institution, from its roots as an unlikely of the most popular and influential forms of swept in from the Atlantic one after another, their families and the rescuers who frantically partnership between a country doctor and the entertainment in history. Drawing upon a vast shattering storm records and killing hundreds explored every option – from pumping water Sisters of Saint Francis (forged in response to a visual archive, The Circus follows the rise and of people. As the planet warms, are these to drilling – ultimately choosing to carry the devastating tornado in the 1883), to its position fall of the gigantic, traveling railroad circus, superstorms the new normal? How well can children through miles of flooded and rugged today as a worldwide model for collaborative recounting the era when Circus Day could shut we predict them? And with hurricane season caves. In a miracle of technology, medicine patient care, research, and education. The Mayo down a town and circus stars were among the just around the corner, does the U.S. need to and most of all, courage, all 13 people were Native America Clinic tells the story of the history and pioneering most famous people in the world. For many, the prepare for the reality of climate refugees? rescued. Long after the world's press had Weaving history and science with living indigenous traditions, Native America brings to life a land of work of what many believe is the best medical circus embodied the improbable, the exotic and NOVA takes you inside the 2017 superstorms packed up and gone home, NOVA remained massive cities connected by social networks spanning two continents, with unique and sophisticated center on Earth. 2x60 HD the spectacular. 4x60 HD and the cutting-edge research that will on the scene to give the most in-depth and systems of science, art and writing. Made with the active participation of Native American communities determine how well equipped we are to deal complete report. 1x60 HD and filmed in some of the most spectacular locations in the hemisphere, this series illuminates the with hurricanes in the future. 1x53 HD splendor of a past whose story has for too long remained untold. 4x54 HD 2 pbsinternational.org pbsinternational.org 3 HISTORY SCIENCE HISTORY HISTORY HISTORY NEW RELEASES NEW for inflight 2018 FALL BRETT SEYMOUR, NATIONAL PARK SERVICE) COURTESY OF WGBH COURTESY OF WGBH COURTESY OF WGBH JOHN C. SMITH Last B-24 Addiction Eugenics Crusade Operation Bridge Rescue Crossing the Empty Quarter In December 1944, the TulsAmerican B-24 NOVA joins scientists and sufferers alike as The Eugenics Crusade tells the story of the NOVA explores an extraordinary engineering In 1930 Omani Sheikh Saleh bin Khalut and bomber disappeared off the coast of Croatia. they probe the mysteries of addiction. They are unlikely–and largely unknown–campaign to wonder of ancient China—the Covered Englishman Bertram Thomas made the first The plane was a WW2 icon –the last B-24 built discovering that addiction is not simply a lack breed a “better” American race, tracing the Bridge—intertwining three immersive, actuality- recorded crossing of the Rub Al Khali, the Empty in Tulsa and paid for by the factory workers. of willpower; drug abuse produces significant rise of the movement that turned the fledgling driven threads.