TCM Schedule for Tuesday, May 25: Body Images on Film
The daytime schedule focuses on civil rights and includes documentaries you won't want to miss.
At evening TCM's Body Images on Film series turns to relationships between men and women amid the cruelties and constraints of societal expectations and biases.
Tuesday, May 25, 2021
12:30 am
Mean Streets (1973)
1h 50m | Crime | TV-MA
A young hood in New York's Little Italy contends with saving the neck of his hotheaded best friend.
Director
Martin Scorsese
Cast
Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, David Proval
2:30 am
In Cold Blood (1967)
2h 14m | Suspense/Mystery | TV-14
Two vagrants try to outrun the police after committing a savage crime.
Director
Richard Brooks
Cast
Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe
5:00 am
Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)
1h 49m | Drama | TV-14
Academy Award winners Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando star in John Huston's adaptation of Carson McCullers' novel.
Director
John Huston
Cast
Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, Brian Keith
7:00 am
The Thing from Another World (1951)
1h 27m | Horror/Science-Fiction | TV-PG
The crew of a remote Arctic base fights off a murderous monster from outer space.
Director
Christian Nyby,
Cast
Margaret Sheridan, Kenneth Tobey
8:30 am
The Symbol of the Unconquered (1921)
58m | Drama | TV-PG
In this silent film, a Black heiress fights off the Ku Klux Klan to save her land.
Director
Oscar Micheaux
Cast
Iris Hall, Walker Thompson, Lawrence Chenault
9:45 am
One Potato, Two Potato (1964)
1h 32m | Drama | TV-14
A white divorcee's marriage to a Black man could cost her custody of her daughter.
Director
Larry Peerce, Bruce Bilson
Cast
Barbara Barrie, Bernie Hamilton, Richard Mulligan
11:30 am
Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (1963)
58m | Documentary | TV-PG
After years of segregation, the University of Alabama becomes the last U.S. college to open its doors to Black students.
Director
Robert Drew
Cast
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, George Wallace, Robert F. Kennedy
12:30 pm
Black Panthers (1968)
Documentary
Interviews and protests at a rally to free Huey P. Newton.
Director
Agnes Varda
Cast
Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, H. Rap Brown
1:00 pm
You Got to Move-Stories of Change in the South (1985)
1h 27m | Documentary | TV-PG
Documentary following people from communities in the Southern United States...
Director
Lucy Massie Phenix
Cast
Bernice Robinson, Bernice Johnson Reagon
2:30 pm
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
1h 49m | Suspense/Mystery | TV-14
A Black detective teams up with a racist white sheriff to solve a murder in a small town.
Director
Norman Jewison
Cast
Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates
4:30 pm
Freedom on My Mind (1994)
1h 45m | Documentary | TV-G
The dramatic story of the Mississippi Voter Registration project (1961-64) is told.
Director
Connie Field
Cast
Endesha Ida Mae Holland, Pam Chude Allen
6:30 pm
Hairspray (1988)
1h 32m | Comedy | TV-14
A teenager uses local stardom to fight segregation, raising the ire of her rival.
Director
John Waters
Cast
Ricki Lake, Sonny Bono, Divine
WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: BODY IMAGES ON FILM
8:00 pm
Marty (1955)
1h 31m | Romance | TV-PG
A lonely butcher finds love despite the opposition of his friends and family.
Director
Delbert Mann
Cast
Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair, Esther Minciotti
9:45 pm
Dogfight (1991)
1h 34m | Drama | TV-MA
Set in 1963, a romance involving a Marine on his way to Vietnam...
Director
Nancy Savoca
Cast
River Phoenix, Lili Taylor, Richard Panebianco
11:30 pm
The Heiress (1949)
1h 55m | Drama | TV-PG
A plain young woman's wealth makes her prey to fortune hunters.
Director
William Wyler
Cast
Olivia De Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson
1:45 am
The Old Maid (1939)
1h 35m | Drama | TV-PG
An unmarried mother gives her illegitimate child to her cousin.
Director
Edmund Goulding
Cast
Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, George Brent
3:30 am
A Kid for Two Farthings (1956)
1h 36m | Drama | TV-G
A boy in the slums buys a young goat he thinks is a unicorn.
Director
Carol Reed
Cast
Celia Johnson, Diana Dors, David Kossoff
5:15 am
MGM Parade Show #16 (1955)
25m | Documentary | TV-G
Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald perform in a clip from Maytime.