TCM Schedule for Monday February 24, 2025 - 31 Days of Oscar - Oscar Worthy Women in Danger

Daytime features winning and nominated documentaries.

(all times Eastern)

6:45 AM The Battle of Midway (1942)
18m | Short | TV-PG
Actual battle footage documents the U.S.' heroic stand against the Japanese on Midway Island in June, 1942.
Director: John Ford. Cast: Henry Fonda (narrator), Jane Darwell (narrator), Logan Ramsey

7:15 AM Resisting Enemy Interrogation (1944)
1h 6m | Documentary | TV-PG
Academy Award nominated training film which instructs soldiers how to handle the interrogation techniques practiced by the Nazis.
Director: Bernard Vorhaus. Cast: Lloyd Nolan, Carl Esmond, Peter Van Eyck, Don Porter

8:30 AM The Sea Around Us (1952)
1h 1m | Documentary | TV-G
Documentary based on Rachel Carson's pioneering study of ocean life.
Director: Irwin Allen. Cast: Don Forbes, Theodor Von Eltz, Irwin Allen

9:45 AM The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)
1h 28m | Documentary | TV-MA
This documentary focuses on the successful career and assassination of San Francisco's first elected gay councilor.
Director: Robert Epstein. Cast: Harvey Milk, Anne Kronenberg, Harvey Fierstein

11:30 AM Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989)
1h 20m | Documentary | TV-14
A documentary that tells the stories of five people who died from AIDS and how their loved ones came to terms with their loss through participation in the AIDS Memorial Quilt.
Director: Robert Epstein. Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Bobby Mcferrin, Tracy Torrey

1:00 PM Harlan County, U.S.A. (1976)
1h 43m | Documentary | TV-MA
Director Barbara Kopple spent a year filming nearly 200 Kentucky coal-mining families and their battle to unionize.
Director: Barbara Kopple. Cast: Norman Yarborough, Houston Elmore, Phil Sparks

3:00 PM 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

5:00 PM When We Were Kings (1996)
1h 30m | Documentary | TV-14
Documentary look at the 1974 "Rumble in the Jungle" heavyweight title fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in Zaire.
Director: Leon Gast. Cast: Malick Bowens, Lloyd Price, Thomas Hauser

6:30 PM For All Mankind (1989)
1h 26m | Documentary | TV-PG
Footage traces the progress of the Apollo missions.
Director: Al Reinert. Cast: James Lovell, Russell L Schweickart, Eugene A Cernan

8:00 PM Suspicion (1941)
1h 39m | Suspense | TV-PG
A young woman marries a charming man after a brief romance but then comes to believe that he is only after her money and will do anything to get it.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Sir Cedric Hardwicke

10:00 PM Psycho (1960)
1h 49m | Horror | TV-PG
A woman on the run gets mixed up with a repressed young man and his violent mother.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin

12:00 AM Gaslight (1944)
1h 54m | Suspense | TV-PG
A newlywed fears she's ging mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
Director: George Cukor. Cast: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten

2:00 AM Wait Until Dark (1967)
1h 48m | Suspense | TV-PG
A blind woman fights against drug smugglers who've invaded her home.
Director: Terence Young. Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna

4:00 AM Night Must Fall (1937)
1h 57m | Suspense | TV-PG
A charming young man worms his way into a wealthy woman's household, then reveals a deadly secret.
Director: Richard Thorpe. Cast: Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Dame May Whitty