TCM Schedule for Monday January 18, 2021 - Documenting the Black Experience

On Martin Luther King day, it's Sidney Poitier in daytime and black-themed documentaries by night.

(all times Eastern)

6:00 am Edge of the City (1957)
1h 25m | Drama | TV-PG
An army deserter and a black dock worker join forces against a corrupt union official.
Director: Martin Ritt. Cast: John Cassavetes, Sidney Poitier, Jack Warden

7:30 am Something Of Value (1957)
1h 53m | Drama | TV-PG
Childhood friends end up on opposite sides of a bloody African uprising.
Director: Richard Brooks. Cast: Rock Hudson, Dana Wynter, Wendy Hiller

9:30 am A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
2h 8m | Drama | TV-PG
The Younger family strives to get out of their ghetto neighborhood on the south side of Chicago.
Director: Daniel Petrie. Cast: Sidney Poitier, Claudia Mcneil, Ruby Dee

11:45 am Lilies of the Field (1963)
1h 34m | Drama | 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

1:30 pm A Patch of Blue (1965)
1h 45m | Romance | TV-PG
A blind white girl falls in love with a black man.
Director: Guy Green. Cast: Sidney Poitier, Shelley Winters, Elizabeth Hartman

3:30 pm 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

5:30 pm Warm December, A (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

7:15 pm Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's The Songwriters' Revue (1930)
20m | Musical | TV-G
This short showcases composers and lyricists of songs that are now considered standards of American popular music.
Director: Sammy Lee. Cast: Jack Benny, Gus Edwards, Arthur Freed.

8:00 pm You Got to Move (1985)
1h 27m | Documentary | TV-PG
Filmmakers trace the role of the Highlander Folk School in fighting to desegregate the South.
Director: Lucy Massie Phenix. Cast: Myles Horton, May Justice, Bernice Johnson Reagon.

9:45 pm Freedom on My Mind (1994)
1h 45m | Documentary | TV-G
Interviews and archival footage tell the story of the drive to register African-American voters in 1960s Mississippi.
Director: Connie Field.

12:00 am Say Amen, Somebody - The Good News Musical (1982)
1h 40m | Documentary | TV-G
The lives and music of early gospel artists are documented.
Director: George T Nierenberg. Cast: Rhodessa Barrett Porter, Edgar O'neal

2:00 am Jazz on a Summer's Day (1959)
1h 24m | Documentary | TV-PG
Performances from the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival.
Director: Bert Stern. Cast: Louis Armstrong, Mahalia Jackson, Gerry Mulligan.

3:30 am No Maps on My Taps (1978)
58m | Dance | TV-G
The indigenous American art of jazz tap dancing is explored in this documentary.
Director: George T Nierenberg. Cast: Sandman Sims, Bunny Briggs, Chuck Green

4:45 am Blues Accordin' to Lightnin' Hopkins, The (1969)
31m | Documentary | TV-PG
The legendary Texas bluesman reveals his inspirations.
Director: Les Blank. Cast: Lightnin' Hopkins, Mance Lipscomb

5:30 am Crisis (1963)
58m | Documentary | TV-PG
After years of segregation, the University of Alabama becomes the last U.S. college to open its doors to black students.
Director: Robert Drew.