TCM Schedule for Monday January 15, 2024 - Civil Rights Documentaries

Plus: for MLK day, Sidney Poitier in the daytime.

(all times Eastern)

6:00 AM A Warm December (1972)
1h 39m | Romance | TV-PG
A doctor visiting London falls for a mysterious woman.Director: Sidney Poitier. Cast: Sidney Poitier, Yvette Curtis, Esther Anderson

8:00 AM Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
1h 48m | Comedy | TV-PG
An aging couple's liberal principles are tested when their daughter announces her engagement to a black doctor.
Director: Stanley Kramer. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier, Katharine Hepburn

10:00 AM In the Heat of the Night (1967)
1h 49m | Suspense | TV-14
A black police detective from the North forces a bigoted Southern sheriff to accept his help with a murder investigation.
Director: Norman Jewison. Cast: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates

12:00 PM 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

2:00 PM Lilies of the Field (1963)
1h 34m | Comedy | TV-PG
An itinerant handyman in the Southwest gets a new outlook on life when he helps a group of German nuns build a chapel.
Director: Ralph Nelson. Cast: Sidney Poitier, Lilia Skala, Lisa Mann

4:00 PM The Defiant Ones (1958)
1h 37m | Drama | TV-PG
Two convicts, a white racist and an angry black, escape while chained to each other.
Director: Stanley Kramer. Cast: Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, Theodore Bikel

6:00 PM No Way Out (1950)
1h 46m | Drama | TV-14
A racist gangster forces a black doctor to tend to his injuries.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Cast: Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell, Stephen Mcnally

8:00 PM King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1970)
3h 5m | Documentary | TV-G
Compilation documentary on Martin Luther King and his movement.
Director: Sidney Lumet. Cast: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Ruby Dee, James Earl Jones

1:00 AM Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (1963)
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

2:00 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

4:00 AM Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist (1979)
30m | Biography | TV-PG
This documentary covers the life, career, and activism of actor Paul Robeson.
Director: Saul J. Turell. Cast: Sidney Poitier, Jessica Huppert-Berman, Saul J. Turell

4:30 AM Song of Freedom (1936)
1h 15m | Musical | TV-G
A black dock-worker becomes an opera star, then discovers his African roots.
Director: J Edgar Willis. Cast: Paul Robeson, Elizabeth Welch, Ingram D'abbes