Winter is coming to HBO and so are new seasons of "Veep" and "Silicon Valley," original movies featuring Kerry Washington as Anita Hill in "Confirmation" and Bryan Cranston as Lyndon B. Johnson in "All the Way" and hard-hitting documentaries on subjects such as photojournalist James Foley and the Charlie Hebdo attacks.
The premium cable network comedies "Veep" and "Silicon Valley" will premiere their fifth and third seasons, respectively, on Sunday, April 24 following the sixth season premiere of "Game of Thrones."
HBO Films will release "Confirmation," which chronicles the controversial U.S. Supreme Court nomination hearings of Clarence Thomas, on April 16 at 8 p.m. Washington portrays law professor Anita Hill, who accused Thomas, played by Wendell Pierce, of sexual harassment.
Cranston reprises his role as President Johnson in the film adaptation of the Tony Award-winning play, "All the Way," premiering in May. Cranston also won a Tony for his portrayal of the 36th president and his efforts to pass the Civil Rights Acts of 1964.
HBO also announced the premiere dates of 18 documentaries over the next six months as well as a new installment of "Saving My Tomorrow," a family series about the environment. Audra McDonald's performance in "Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill" will premiere on March 12.
See the complete list of premiere dates for the HBO documentaries below.
"Jim: The James Foley Story" (Feb. 6) - Documentary about American photojournalist James "Jim" Foley who was kidnapped in Syria in 2012 and went missing for two years before a video of his beheading by ISIS went viral online.
"Homegrown: The Counter-Terror Dilemma" (Feb. 8) - Explores the threat of homegrown Islamic extremism.
"Becoming Mike Nichols" (Feb. 22) - Director Jack O'Brien speaks with his friend Mike Nichols, director, producer and improvisational comedy icon, in a series of interviews conducted fourth months before Nichols' death.
"Mavis!" (Feb. 29) - Chronicles the rise of gospel and soul singer as well as civil rights icon Mavis Staples and her family group, The Staples Singers.
"A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness" (March 7) - The story of Saba, an 18-year-old Pakistani woman who was sentenced to death for "falling in love" but lived.
"Ebola: The Doctors' Story"; "Body Team 12" and "Orphans of Ebola" (March 14) - Three short films on the Ebola epidemic.
"Everything Is Copy" (March 21) - Jacob Bernstein's documentary about his mother Nora Ephron, the writer and screenwriter-director.
"Only the Dead See the End of War" (March 28) - Documents encounter between veteran battlefield journalist Michael Ware and terrorist leader Mousab al Zarqawi.
"Three Days of Terror: The Charlie Hebdo Attacks" (April) - Documentary about France's first homegrown Islamic terrorist attack.
"Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures" (April 4) - Unflinching look at Richard Mapplethorpe's controversial photography.
"Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper" (April 9) - Anderson Cooper candidly speaks with his mother Gloria Vanderbilt about her 90 years living in the public eye.
"Class Divide" (April 18) - Highlights effects of hyper-gentrification in New York City's West Chelsea neighborhood.
"Heart of Dog" (April 25) - Stories from American creative Laurie Anderson.
"Rock and a Hard Place" (May) - Looks at young incarcerated people granted a second chance: the opportunity to trade in prison time for the Miami-Dade County Corrections & Rehabilitation Boot Camp. Dwayne Johnson appears and serves as an executive produce.
"Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah" (May 2) - The 12-year journey that led to the creation of the French iconoclast's "Shoah," a nine-hour examination of the Holocaust.
"Every Brilliant Thing" (May 9) - filmed version of Jonny Donahue's one-man show about depression, suicide and the lengths people will go for the ones they love.
Mariela Castro's March: Cuba's LGBT Revolution (June) - Follows the crusade of Mariela Castro, Raul Castro's daughter (and Fidel Castro's niece), to establish equal rights for LGBT Cubans.
"Suited" (June) - Tells the story of Bindle & Keep, a Brooklyn tailoring company that makes custom suits for gender-nonconforming and transgender clients.
