Memorial Day Movie Marathon
TCM, Beginning at 5 p.m.
Starting tonight, and running all the way through Memorial Day (Monday, May 30) into the early morning hours of May 31, Turner Classic Movies airs a nonstop, 82hour marathon of memorable war and military-themed films to commemorate the holiday on which Americans remember the veterans who made the ultimate sacrifice. The weekend’s complete lineup of movies beginning tonight, in order, features the following titles: Friday, May 27 (primetime and late-night) — Twelve O’clock High (1949);
The Young and the Brave (1963); Battleground (pictured) (1949); Go for Broke! (1951); Torpedo Run (1958). Saturday, May 28 (beginning early morning and running all day through late-night) — Darby’s Rangers (1958); Flying Leathernecks (1951);
Thunder Afloat (1939); For Me and My Gal
(1942); See Here, Private Hargrove (1944); Up Periscope (1959); Attack (1956); From Here to Eternity (1953); Fighter Squadron (1948); Bad Day at Black Rock (1955, airing as part of the Noir Alley programming block); Breakthrough (1950); Hell to
Eternity (1960). Sunday, May 29 (beginning early morning and running all day through
late-night) — Ace of Aces (1932); They Were Expendable (1945); Bad Day at Black
Rock (encore Noir Alley showing); The Great Escape (1963); The Steel Helmet (1951); Action in the North Atlantic (1943); December 7 (1943); Destination Tokyo
(1943); The Red Badge of Courage (1951);
The Big Parade (1925, airing as part of the Silent Sunday Nights programming block);
The Cranes Are Flying (1957); Imitation General (1958). Monday, May 30 (beginning early morning and running all day through
late-night) — Till the End of Time (1946);
Battle of the Bulge (1965); One Minute to Zero (1952); Merrill’s Marauders (1962);
The Naked and the Dead (1958); Sergeant York (1941); The Longest Day (1962);
Bataan (1943); The Dirty Dozen (1967);
Take the High Ground (1953).