What’s on TV Monday: ‘Diana: In Her Own Words’ and ‘Hunting the KGB Killers’

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Princess Diana talks about life under the microscope in a series of rarely heard interviews from 1991. CBS News visits American military bases on alert during threats from North Korea. And “Hunting the KGB Killers” investigates the 2006 poisoning death of Alexander V. Litvinenko.

What’s on TV

DIANA: IN HER OWN WORDS 9 p.m. on Nat Geo. In 1991, as her marriage to Prince Charles reached a crisis point, Princess Diana recorded a series of interviews with a close friend at the request of the journalist Andrew Morton, who was writing a book about her, then the most photographed woman in the world. This special, in remembrance of the 20th anniversary of Diana’s death on Aug. 31, weaves together these rarely heard recordings with archival film footage and photographs.

CBSN: ON ASSIGNMENT 10 p.m. on CBS; also streaming on CBSNews.com. This newsmagazine visits American military bases in Guam, South Korea and Hawaii to investigate the United States’ preparations for a possible conflict with North Korea. Other segments look at Instagram’s efforts to curb abusive content, and at the use of abortion to eliminate Down syndrome in Iceland.

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THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE (2009) on Amazon and iTunes. R. J. Cutler chronicles the creation of what fans of American Vogue hold their collective breath for each fall: the pounds-heavy and inches-thick new-season issue (in this case, the one from 2007), overseen by Anna Wintour. (This year’s 125th edition features four cover variations, including a John Currin painting starring Jennifer Lawrence.) The documentary has “little to say about fashion, the real ins and outs of publishing or the inner workings and demons of the magazine’s notoriously demanding meanie-in-chief,” Manohla Dargis wrote in The New York Times. Rather, it’s about brand maintenance and a star, Ms. Wintour, who is actually “pretty funny, perhaps at times accidentally so. Much of the movie’s pleasure comes from the utter ease with which Ms. Wintour plays the Red Queen of fashion and orders off with their heads (and even tummies).”

HUNTING THE KGB KILLERS on Acorn TV. In this real-life tale worthy of a James Bond movie, Scotland Yard investigators discuss the 2006 death of Alexander V. Litvinenko, a former KGB officer who fled to Britain after criticizingPresident Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, and whose poisoning in London with polonium 210 led detectives back to the Kremlin.

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BY THE SEA (2015) on iTunes and Amazon. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, celebrity lovebirds no more, star as Vanessa and Roland, itinerant married artists suffering exquisitely through a 1970s rough patch in a French hotel on the Mediterranean. Roland has come to work on his novel. Vanessa lounges around in negligees, her face streaked with mascara as she weeps and weeps. Then they discover a hole in their room and begin spying on the hot young newlyweds next door. “Meta with a vengeance,” Manohla Dargis wrote in The Times of Ms. Jolie’s melodrama. “Any resemblance to real life is strictly coincidental and completely intentional.”

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