TCM tonight
8:00 PM Do the Right Thing (1989)
On the hottest day of the year, temperatures rise and everything can change in a day. As the inhabitants of Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood try to beat the heat, growing tensions and resentment explode in a senseless act of violence. Confronting racial and political issues head-on, Spike Lee's bold directing style and balance of humor and drama caused the kind of controversy upon its 1989 release that cemented the film as an instant classic and won the film a nomination for an Academy Award. Starring Spike Lee himself, Rosie Perez, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Samuel L. Jackson, John Turturro, and many more.
Dir: Spike Lee Cast: John Turturro, Ruby Dee, Gerald Tarack
Runtime: 120 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC: Y
10:15 PM Get on the Bus (1996)
A disparate group of African-American men travel by bus to Washington, DC for the Million Man March.
Dir: Spike Lee Cast: Ossie Davis, Charles S. Dutton, Andre Braugher
Runtime: 120 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC: Y
4:30 AM The Joe Louis Story (1953)
In this biography, champion boxer Joe Louis fights to make a name for himself.
Dir: Robert Gordon Cast: Coley Wallace, Paul Stewart, Hilda Simms
Runtime: 88 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: N