TCM Schedule for Monday January 20, 2025 - MLK Day: Celebrating Coretta Scott King

(all times Eastern)

6:00 AM A Patch of Blue (1965)
1h 45m | Drama | TV-PG
A blind white girl falls in love with a black man.
Director: Guy Green. Cast: Sidney Poitier, Shelley Winters, Elizabeth Hartman

8:00 AM The Learning Tree (1969)
1h 47m | Drama | TV-14
A black boy growing up in Kansas dreams of a better life in this film version of director Gordon Parks' autobiography.
Director: Gordon Parks. Cast: Kyle Johnson, Alex Clarke, Estelle Evans

10:00 AM Sounder (1972)
1h 45m | Drama | TV-PG
In 1933 Louisiana, a family of African American sharecroppers endure racism and injustice when their father is convicted of a petty crime and sent to a prison camp.
Director: Martin Ritt. Cast: Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, Kevin Hooks

12:00 PM Lost Boundaries (1949)
1h 39m | Drama | TV-14
A black family tries to build a new life by passing as white.
Director: Alfred L. Werker. Cast: Beatrice Pearson, Mel Ferrer, Susan Douglas

2:00 PM Intruder in the Dust (1949)
1h 29m | Drama | TV-G
Only a young boy and an old woman stand between an innocent black man and a lynch mob.
Director: Clarence Brown. Cast: David Brian, Claude Jarman Jr., Juano Hernandez

3:30 PM A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
2h 8m | Drama | TV-PG
The Younger family strives to get out of their ghetto neighborhood on the south side of Chicago. When the patriarch of the family passes away and each family member is handed a slice of the insurance payoff, their escape finally seems possible.
Director: Daniel Petrie. Cast: Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee

5:45 PM The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974)
2h | Adaptation | TV=PG
Story of a black woman in the South who was born into slavery in the 1850s and lives to become a part of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
Director: John Korty. Cast: Cicely Tyson, Odetta, Josephine Premice

8:00 PM Nationtime (1972)
1h 20m | Documentary | TV-PG
A report on the National Black Political Convention held in Gary, Indiana, in 1972, a historic event that gathered voices from across the political spectrum.
Director: William Greaves. Cast: Amiri Baraka, Charles C. Diggs Jr., Richard Hatcher

9:30 PM I Am Somebody (1970)
28m | Documentary | TV-G
In 1969, 400 underpaid black women go on strike to demand union recognition.
Director: Madeline Anderson. Cast: Madeline Anderson

10:15 PM Boycott (2001)
1h 58m | Drama | TV-PG
A dramatization of the historic mid-1950s public bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama that played a pivotal role in the Civil Rights movement.
Director: Clark Johnson. Cast: Jeffrey Wright, Terrence Howard, CCH Pounder

12:15 AM In the Heat of the Night (1967)
1h 49m | Suspense | TV-14
A black detective teams up with a racist white sheriff to solve a murder in a small town in the South. Over time, they begin to find respect for one another.
Director: Norman Jewison. Cast: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates

2:15 AM Freedom on My Mind (1994)
1h 45m | Documentary | TV-PG
The dramatic story of the Mississippi Voter Registration project (1961-64) is told through the eyewitness accounts of several remarkable men and women.
Director: Connie Field. Cast: Endesha Ida Mae Holland, Pam Chude Allen, Marshall Ganz

4:15 AM Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (1963)
53m | 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

5:15 AM Malcolm X (1992)
3h 19m | Biography | TV-14
Biographical account of the controversial and influential Black Nationalist leader, from his early life and career as a small-time gangster, to his ministry as a member of the Nation of Islam and his eventual assassination.
Director: Spike Lee. Cast: Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, Delroy Lindo