HBO Unveils Summer Doc Schedule

NEW YORK, April 16: HBO
Documentary Films is rolling out a new program from its catalogue of original
specials every Monday night at 9 p.m. this summer, from June 9 to August 25.

Roman Polanski: Wanted
and Desired kicks off the summer
slate on June 9, followed by Resolved, which looks at the world of competitive high-school debate, on June
16. The following Monday HBO will debut Hard Times at Douglass High: A No
Child Left Behind Report Card,
examining the controversial policy from the impact it’s had on an inner-city
institution. Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery, the third film in a trilogy directed by Jon
Alpert and Matthew O’Neill (Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq and Baghdad ER), rounds out the June slate.

On July 7, HBO will air The
Art of Failure: Chuck Connelly’s Not For Sale, which explores the painter’s passion for his work and turbulent
rise, and will follow the next Monday with China’s Stolen Children, an investigation into the boom in missing
children that lead to China’s infamous One Child Policy. Heidi Fleiss: The
Would-Be Madam of Crystal will
premiere on July 21, and The Recruiter, which examines the lives of a successful U.S. military recruiter and
his high-school recruits up to their deployment to Iraq, will follow on July
28.

In August, the
premium-cable network will launch Baghdad High, which explores the current war in Iraq through
the eyes of four Iraqi teens in their senior year of high school, along with We
are Together: The Children of Agape Choir, about a South African orphanage; Ganja Queen, the story of an Australian woman who is accused
of international drug trafficking; and The Black List, Vol.1, which looks at some of today’s most influential
African Americans.

—By Kristin
Brzoznowski