TCM Schedule for Monday January 17, 2022 - MLK Day - The Film Group

For Martin Luther King Jr. Day, TCM spotlights documentaries by the Chicago based The Film Group.

(all times Eastern)

6:00 am The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959)
1h 35m | Horror/Science-Fiction | TV-PG
One woman and two men are the only people left alive after a nuclear disaster.
Director: Ranald Macdougall. Cast: Harry Belafonte, Inger Stevens, Mel Ferrer

8:00 am Intruder in the Dust (1949)
1h 29m | Drama | TV-G
Only a young boy and an old woman stand between an innocent black man and a lynch mob.
Director: Clarence Brown. Cast: David Brian, Claude Jarman Jr., Juano Hernandez

9:30 am One Potato, Two Potato (1964)
1h 32m | Drama | TV-14
A white divorcee's marriage to a black man could cost her custody of her daughter.
Director: Larry Peerce. Cast: Barbara Barrie, Bernie Hamilton, Richard Mulligan

11:00 am 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

1:00 pm Gordon Parks: Moments Without Proper Names (1988)
1h | Documentary | TV-PG
A self-portrait of the life and career of photographer, writer, director and composer Gordon Parks.
Director: Gordon Parks. Cast: Roscoe Lee Browne, Gordon Parks, Joe Seneca

2:15 pm The Learning Tree (1969)
1h 47m | Drama | TV-14
A black boy growing up in Kansas dreams of a better life in this film version of director Gordon Parks's autobiography.
Director: Gordon Parks. Cast: Kyle Johnson, Alex Clarke, Estelle Evans

4:15 pm Sounder (1972)
1h 45m | Drama | TV-PG
Black sharecroppers during the Depression fight to get their children a decent education.
Director: Martin Ritt. Cast: Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, Kevin Hooks

6:15 pm Nothing but a Man (1964)
1h 34m | Drama | TV-PG
A young black man in 1963 Alabama loves a minister's daughter, works hard, and is put upon, oppressed, and called "boy" by everyone with whom he comes in contact; he wants to be "nothing but a man."
Director: Michael Roemer. Cast: Ivan Dixon, Abbey Lincoln, Gloria Foster

8:00 pm American Revolution 2 (1969)
1h 20m
Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's preparations for the 1968 convention of the Democratic Party and ensuing confrontations between police and protestors are investigated.
Director: Howard Alk. Cast: Mike Gray, William R. Cottle

9:30 pm Black Moderates and Black Militants (1968)

9:45 pm Cicero March (1966)

10:00 pm The Murder of Fred Hampton (1971)
1h 28m | Documentary
A documentary about the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party and its chairman, Fred Hampton.
Director: Mike Gray. Cast: Howard Alk, Howard Alk, Mike Gray

11:40 pm The People's Right to Know: Police vs. Reporters (1968)

12:00 am American Revolution 2 (1969)
1h 20m
Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's preparations for the 1968 convention of the Democratic Party and ensuing confrontations between police and protestors are investigated.
Director: Howard Alk. Cast: Mike Gray, William R. Cottle

1:30 am Social Confrontation: The Battle of Michigan Avenue (1968)

1:45 am Law and Order vs. Dissent (1968)

2:00 am The Murder of Fred Hampton (1971)
1h 28m | Documentary
A documentary about the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party and its chairman, Fred Hampton.
Director: Mike Gray. Cast: Howard Alk, Howard Alk, Mike Gray

3:40 am A Right to Dissent: A Press Conference (1968)

4:00 am I Am Curious (Yellow) (1967)
2h 1m | Drama | TV-MA
A young women attempts to understand her surroundings and, ultimately, herself in this sexually explicit drama.
Director: Vilgot Sjoman. Cast: Lena Nyman, Borje Ahlstedt, Peter Lindgren