Turner Basic Films honors civil rights chief Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy all day on Martin Luther King Jr. Day (Monday January 20) with 24 hours’ value of movies coping with racism and the combat for racial justice.
Right here’s a breakdown of TCM’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day schedule and what to anticipate in these highly effective tales.
Turner Basic Films Martin Luther King Jr. Day Marathon 2025 Schedule
Kicking issues off is 1965’s A Patch of Blue, starring Sidney Poitier and Shelley Winters (who gained an Oscar for her function as Rose-Ann D’Arcey), a few Black man who befriends a blind white lady. The Studying Tree (1969, 8am/7c) facilities on a poor Black 14-year-old in Kansas studying about love and racial injustice and stars Kyle Johnson. At 10am/9c, the Oscar-nominated Sounder (1972), starring Paul Winfield and Cicely Tyson, chronicles the lifetime of the eldest son of a hardworking household of sharecroppers within the Melancholy-era South.
At midday/11am c, Misplaced Boundaries (1949) facilities on a Black household passing as white; Juano Hernandez stars in 1949’s Intruder within the Mud (2/1c) as a Black man unjustly accused of homicide. The movie model of A Raisin within the Solar (1961) follows (3:30/2:30c); then at 5:45/4:45c, it’s the inspiring Emmy-winning The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974), a few girl (an excellent Tyson) born into slavery who turns into a part of the Civil Rights Motion.
At night time, tune in for 3 movies by which MLK’s widow, Coretta Scott King, seems or is a personality, starting with 1972’s Nationtime (8/7c), a documentary concerning the historic Nationwide Black Political Conference that similar 12 months. The 1970 doc I Am Somephysique, about 400 Black ladies occurring strike, is subsequent, adopted by 2001’s Boycott (10:15/9:15c), starring Jeffrey Wright and Carmen Ejogo.
MLK Day Film Marathon, Monday, January 20, 6am/5c, Turner Basic Films
