What to Watch on Tuesday: HBO explores the Obama presidency in new docuseries

HOW/WHEN & WHERE TO WATCH: 9 p.m. on HBO

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This three-part docuseries chronicles President Barack Obama's personal and political journey — using interviews with colleagues, friends, and critics, as well as his own speeches and news interviews — and historic presidency. In tonight's premiere, the series looks back on his childhood as he was raised by a single mother and white grandparents, through his youth in Hawaii and education at Columbia and Harvard, and eventually to Chicago, where he worked as a community organizer.

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Hear more on all of today's must-see picks in EW's What to Watch podcast, hosted by Gerrad Hall.

9 p.m.

The Real Housewives of New York City — Bravo

Love Island — CBS

Chopped — Food Network

David Makes Man — OWN

10 p.m.

Motherland: Fort Salem — Freeform

Streaming

McDonald & Dodds (season prem/U.S. streaming debut) — BritBox

Movies

Pray Away (doc) — Netflix

A Savage Nature — Digital/VOD

Monuments — Digital/VOD

Fireboys (doc) — Digital/VOD

Pig — Digital

*times are ET and subject to change

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