TCM Schedule for Sunday February 20, 2022 - Black History Month

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A day of Sidney Poitier films followed by a twin bill dealing with the Civil Rights movement.

(all times Eastern)

6:15 am Good-Bye, My Lady (1956)
1h 35m | Drama | TV-G
A stray dog brings together a young boy and an old man in the Georgia swamps.
Director: William A. Wellman. Cast: Walter Brennan, Phil Harris, Brandon De Wilde

8:15 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

10:00 am 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

12:00 pm Blackboard Jungle (1955)
1h 41m | Drama | TV-14
An idealistic teacher confronts the realities of juvenile delinquency.
Director: Richard Brooks. Cast: Glenn Ford, Anne Francis, Louis Calhern

2:00 pm To Sir, With Love (1967)
1h 45m | Drama | TV-PG
A substitute teacher changes the lives of the slum children in his class.
Director: James Clavell. Cast: Sidney Poitier, Christian Roberts, Judy Geeson

4:00 pm Lilies of the Field (1963)
1h 34m | Comedy-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

6:00 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

8:00 pm Selma (2014)
2h 3m | Biography | TV-14
In spring of 1965, a series of dramatic events changed the course of America and the modern concept of civil rights forever.
Director: Ava Duvernay. Cast: Charles Black, Clay Chappell, Greg Chandler Maness

10:30 pm Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (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. Cast: John F Kennedy, George Wallace, Robert F Kennedy

12:00 am Body and Soul (1925)
1h 26m | Silent | TV-PG
In this film, a corrupt small town minister leads his congregation astray.
Director: Oscar Micheaux. Cast: Paul Robeson, Marshall Rodgers, Lawrence Chenault

2:00 am The Easy Life (1962)
1h 45m | Drama | TV-MA
A playboy introduces a scholar to the jet-setting crowd.
Director: Dino Risi. Cast: Vittorio Gassman, Jean-louis Trintignant, Catherine Spaak

4:00 am Weekend (1967)
1h 45m | Comedy | TV-MA
A couple's weekend vacation lands them in the middle of a society's collapse.
Director: Jean-luc Godard. Cast: Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne, Jean-pierre Kalfon