Memorial Weekend War Movie Marathon??

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Anything going on?

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Turner classic movies (TCM) is doing a war movie marathon

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This evening’s schedule begins with the biopic MacArthur (1977), which was the follow-up film for producers David Brown and Richard Zanuck after their successful Jaws. The film was a disappointment at the box office despite its lead man being Gregory Peck, but it remains a classic today, sharing the story of the prickly war general. Immediately after, the lineup features The Guns of Navarone (1961), Pork Chop Hill (1959), The Purple Plain (1954), Days of Glory (1944), The Sea Wolves (1980), and Captain Newman, M.D. (1963).

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Local theater does Saving Private Ryan every Memorial Day so looking forward to that

Booooooooorrrrrrrrrrrrring

There is an OTA channel KNOV Movies 41.3.. that is showing The Longest Day followed by Tora Tora Tora Saturday night starting at 7..

On Monday Band of Brothers starts at 10AM on AMC..

Times are Eastern.









Whole month of May PDF

The Patriot is a 4th of July movie.

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World War 2 by Tom Hanks starts Sunday on History channel, first three episodes
will be 20 total episodes

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I'm cautiously optimistic that this will be good. One of the things mentioned in the preview I read was about the oil embargo. It does have Tom Hanks behind it who's been fairly viewpoint neutral. Tom Hanks is left of center though. On the small chance that he uses the embargo to frame Pearl Harbor as "we deserved it" I'm done with him and the channel. I really hope he keeps his reputation intact. This could be an epic series not seen since "The World At War".

ETA: 20 minutes in and they've covered nothing that I didn't learn in HS.

ETA 2: They say they're going to cover things not covered before yet no mention of the NAZI pact with Stalin while covering the invasion of Poland???