TCM Schedule for Thursday, June 6, 2024: D-Day 80th Anniversary / Saving Private Ryan, The Longest Day, and more
A full day of cinematic fact and fiction -- farce, epic drama and rare color footage -- covering events leading up to, including, and following the WW II Allied Normandy Landings of June 6, 1944, commonly referred to as "D-Day".
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The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II.
Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it is the largest seaborne invasion in history. The operation began the liberation of France, and the rest of Western Europe, and laid the foundations of the Allied victory on the Western Front.
Planning for the operation began in 1943. In the months leading up to the invasion, the Allies conducted a substantial military deception, codenamed Operation Bodyguard, to mislead the Germans as to the date and location of the main Allied landings.
The invasion began shortly after midnight on the morning of June the 6th with extensive aerial and naval bombardment as well as an airborne assault—the landing of 24,000 American, British, and Canadian airborne troops.
The early morning aerial assault was soon followed by Allied amphibious landings on the coast of France at 6:30 AM. The target 50-mile (80 km) stretch of the Normandy coast was divided into five sectors: Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword.
MORE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy_landings
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6:00 AM | Code Name: Emerald (1985)
A spy is sent on a secret mission to obtain information relating to the D-Day attack.
Dir: Jonathan Sanger | Cast: Ed Harris, Max Von Sydow, Helmut Berger, Eric Stoltz
8:00 AM | The Americanization of Emily (1964)
A British war widow falls for an opportunistic American sailor before D-Day.
Dir: Arthur Hiller | Cast: James Garner, Julie Andrews, Melvyn Douglas
10:00 AM | George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey (1984)
Biography of legendary Hollywood director George Stevens with film clips and commentary by several of his contemporaries, including Frank Capra, John Huston, Alan Pakula, Fred Astaire, Warren Beatty, and Pandro S. Berman.
Also included are Stevens' war "home movies," found after his death. Assigned by General Dwight Eisenhower to film the war in Europe, Stevens used the opportunity to produce the only color footage ever shot in World War II. There is breathtaking film of D-Day and its aftermath; the triumphal march through Paris of the Allied liberators; and the unspeakable horrors of Dachau. Directed by George Stevens Jr.
NOTE: A documentary of Stevens' personal 16mm films airs at 5:30 pm
12:00 PM | 36 Hours (1964)
Germans kidnap an American officer in an attempt to learn of Allied invasion plans.
Dir: George Seaton | Cast: James Garner, Rod Taylor, Eva Marie Saint, John Banner
2:00 PM | Red Ball Express (1952)
Story based on the supply truck convoy, staffed primarily by African American soldiers, following D-Day.
Dir: Budd Boetticher | Cast: Jeff Chandler, Alex Nicol, Charles Drake
3:30 PM | D-Day the Sixth of June (1956)
An American and a British soldier in love with the same woman head for the Normandy Invasion.
Dir: Henry Koster | Cast: Robert Taylor, Richard Todd, Dana Wynter
5:30 PM | George Stevens: D-Day to Berlin (1994)
Stevens' personal WW II film diary, shot on 16 mm Kodachrome, following American troops from D-Day to Berlin.
Dir: George Stevens Jr. | Cast: George Stevens Jr., Carl Davis, Peter Howell
Runtime: 50 mins | Genre: Documentary
6:30 PM | Overlord (1975)
A young soldier undergoes grueling training in preparation for the D-Day invasion.
Dir: Stuart Cooper | Cast: Brian Stirner, Davyd Harries, Nicholas Ball
8:00 PM | Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Following D-Day, soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers were killed in action.
Dir: Steven Spielberg | Cast: Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns
11:00 PM | The Longest Day (1962)
The events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view.
Dir: Ken Annakin | Cast: John Wayne, Robert Ryan, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda
2:15 AM | Eye of the Needle (1981)
A German spy with information on the D-Day invasion is stranded with a family on an isolated Scottish island.
Dir: Richard Marquand | Cast: Donald Sutherland, Kate Nelligan, Stephen MacKenna
4:15 AM | I See A Dark Stranger (1946)
An Irish woman's hatred of England leads to Nazi spies and information on the imminent D-Day invasion.
Dir: Frank Launder | Cast: Deborah Kerr, Trevor Howard, Raymond Huntley
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