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Entertainment
Ammar Kalia, Jack Seale, Ali Catterall, Ellen E Jones and Paul Howlett

TV tonight: 100 years on, how women won the right to vote in the US

Suffragettes stand up … The Vote. Photograph: The New York Public Library
Suffragettes stand up … The Vote. Photograph: The New York Public Library

The Vote
8.35pm, PBS America

Marking 100 years since the 19th amendment, which allowed women the right to vote, was added to the US constitution, this detailed two-part documentary traces how the battle for suffrage in the early 20th century grew out of the abolitionist movement and then laid the groundwork for the women’s liberation movement in the 1960s and 70s. Tonight’s first part traces the long struggle that led to ratification of the amendment in 1920, with far-reaching consequences that are explored tomorrow. Ammar Kalia

Shankill By the Sea
7.30pm, BBC One

The Our Lives series of one-off docs about ordinary folk pitches up on the Ards Peninsula in County Down, an area where the caravans are so popular with Belfast Protestants, it’s known as Shankill By the Sea. The concept of the seaside as a refuge is underlined by visitors’ memories of the Troubles. Jack Seale

Reported Missing
9pm, BBC One

All it took was for John to turn his back on wife, Sheila, to buy some parsley, and in that moment Sheila, who has dementia, disappeared. Can Gloucestershire police track her down? Elsewhere, Marian fears her husband may succumb to hypothermia if not found before nightfall. Ali Catterall

Tales from Zambia
9pm, Sky Nature

Sky Nature continues its run of soothing, Planet Earth-style series with this new offering, focusing on the African nation of Zambia. We open by charting a day along the Luangwa River, witnessing an elephant family searching for food in the dry season while hippos graze nearby. A majestic background watch. AK

Inside Missguided: Made in Manchester
10pm, Channel 4

More Manchester tales with this Channel 4 doc on the city’s burgeoning fast-fashion empire, following last night’s BBC exploration of its property boom. Tonight, we witness Missguided’s guerrilla marketing techniques, culminating in a plan to crash London fashion week. AK

There Are No Fakes
10pm, Sky Arts

This Jamie Kastner-directed doc tells a brilliantly bonkers story of forgery and feud. It began when Kevin Hearn, of the band Barenaked Ladies, walked into a Toronto gallery and bought what he believed to be a work by the indigenous Canadian artist Norval Morrisseau. But was it? Ellen E Jones

Film choice

Father and son ... Menashe Lustig and Yoel Falkowitz in Menashe. Photograph: Kobal/Rex/Shutterstock
Father and son ... Menashe Lustig and Yoel Falkowitz in Menashe. Photograph: Kobal/Rex/Shutterstock Photograph: Photograp/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock

Menashe (Joshua Z Weinstein, 2017), 2.20am, Film4

This beautifully observed, melancholic portrait of life in New York’s Hasidic community concerns shambolic widowed grocer Menashe (Menashe Lustig) who, according to tradition, must find a new wife before being reunited with his son Rieven (Yoel Falkowitz), currently living with his better-off uncle’s family. Paul Howlett

Sports

Australian Football: Western United v Melbourne City, 10.30am, BT Sport 2 The Hyundai A-League match at Mars Stadium.

Uefa Youth League: Salzburg U19 v Lyon U19, 2pm, BT Sport 2 Quarter-final head-to-head.

Uefa Champions League: 7pm, BT Sport 1 The second semi-final clash – Lyon v Bayern Munich from Estádio José Alvalade in Lisbon.

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