TCM Schedule for Wednesday, February 21: 31 Days of Oscar - Day 13: Documentary Feature
The exploration of space. The exploration of Planet Earth. Voting rights. Worker rights. Human rights. They're all represented today on TCM's 31 Days of Oscar schedule.
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
12:30 AM Now, Voyager (1942)
A repressed spinster is transformed by psychiatry and her love for a married man.
Dir: Irving Rapper Cast: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains
Runtime: 117 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-G CC: Y
2:45 AM A Little Romance (1979)
Teenagers elope with the help of an aging pickpocket.
Dir: George Roy Hill Cast: Laurence Olivier, Diane Lane, John Pepper
Runtime: 108 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-14 CC: Y
4:45 AM Lili (1953)
A French orphan gets a job with a carnival puppet show.
Dir: Charles Walters Cast: Leslie Caron, Mel Ferrer, Jean Pierre Aumont
Runtime: 81 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y
6:15 AM The Sea Around Us (1952)
Documentary based on Rachel Carson's pioneering study of ocean life.
Dir: Irwin Allen Cast: Don Forbes, Theodor Von Eltz, Irwin Allen
Runtime: 61 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-G CC: Y
7:30 AM The Secret Land (1948)
Documentary about Admiral Richard Byrd and his explorations of the Antarctic.
Dir: Orville O. Dull Cast: Robert Montgomery, Robert Taylor, Van Heflin (narrators)
Runtime: 71 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-G CC: Y
9:00 AM Freedom on My Mind (1994)
The dramatic story of the Mississippi Voter Registration project (1961-64) is told through the eyewitness accounts of several remarkable men and women.
Dir: Connie Field Cast: Endesha Ida Mae Holland, Pam Chude Allen, Marshall Ganz
Runtime: 105 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
11:00 AM Four Days in November (1964)
The nation responds with shock and sorrow when President John F. Kennedy is assassinated.
Dir: Mel Stuart Cast: Richard Basehart, Elmer Bernstein, British Broadcasting Corp.
Runtime: 123 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
1:15 PM Common Threads: Stories From the Quilt (1989)
A documentary that tells the stories of five people who died from AIDS and how their loved ones came to terms with their loss through participation in the AIDS Memorial Quilt. The huge quilt, made by friends and relatives of people who have died of AIDS, has traveled throughout the United States to raise money for AIDS research. The documentary makes use of interviews with family and friends, plus photos and home movies.
Dir: Robert Epstein Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Bobby McFerrin, Tracy Torrey
Runtime: 75 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-14 CC: Y
3:00 PM For All Mankind (1989)
Footage traces the progress of the Apollo missions.
Dir: Al Reinert Cast: James Lovell, Russell L Schweickart, Eugene A Cernan
Runtime: 86 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
4:30 PM When We Were Kings (1996)
On September 25, 1974, in the wake of one of the greatest political scandals in its history, Watergate, America was poised to watch a knockout punch that would redefine it as a nation of champions. In the atmosphere of a three-ring circus, in a little known country ruled by a military dictator, on the little noticed continent of Africa, two American fighters held the world's attention.
Dir: Leon Gast Cast: Malick Bowens, Lloyd Price, Thomas Hauser
Runtime: 90 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-14 CC: Y
6:15 PM Winged Migration (2003)
A series of journeys around the world with migratory birds. As the seasons and the climates change, we follow different birds through an assortment of beautiful countries and locales.
Dir: Jacques Cluzaud Cast: Philippe Labro (narrator)
Runtime: 89 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-G CC:
What's on Tonight: 31 Days of Oscar - Day 13: Documentary Feature
8:00 PM The Man Who Skied Down Mt. Everest (1975)
Oscar-winning documentary that tells the story behind Japanese daredevil Yuichiro Miura's 1970 effort to ski down the world's tallest mountain.
Dir: F.R. Crawley, Bruce Nyznik Cast: Yûichirô Miura, Shintaro Ishihara, Douglas Rain
Runtime: 86 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-G CC:
9:45 PM Harlan County, U.S.A. (1976)
Director Barbara Kopple spent a year filming nearly 200 Kentucky coal-mining families and their battle to unionize.
Dir: Barbara Kopple Cast: Norman Yarborough, Houston Elmore, Phil Sparks
Runtime: 103 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-MA CC: Y
11:45 PM Anne Frank Remembered (1995)
Documentary reconstructing the life of Anne Frank from her early childhood to her death in the Bergen Belsen concentration camp just weeks before the Third Reich fell.
Dir: Jon Blair Cast: Miep Gies, Edith Frank, Kenneth Branagh
Runtime: 122 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
2:00 AM Woodstock: The Director's Cut (1970)
The events of the three-day Woodstock Music and Art Fair, held near Bethel, New York in August 1969. Musical performances of the participating performers are documented, as well as the reactions of community residents and the 400,000 young people who attended.
Dir: Michael Wadleigh Cast: Richie Havens, Joan Baez, Joe Cocker
Runtime: 184 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-MA CC: Y
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