Movies on TV
Highlights for each day of the week
Tuesday, July 3
Gone With the Wind
The fabled Civil War–era epic remains the top-grossing film of all time, if you adjust for inflation. Vivien Leigh and Hattie McDaniel nabbed Oscars. (1939) 8 p.m., TCM
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Wednesday, July 4
Glory
Denzel Washington won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for this fact-based drama about black soldiers who fought valiantly for the Union in the Civil War. (1989) 1:45 p.m., AMC
Saturday, July 7
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Saturn in Opposition
This award-winning drama concerns a close-knit group of gay and straight friends in Rome whose relationships are roiled when one of them dies. (2007) 11 a.m., Sundance
Monday, July 9
Idiocracy
An average Joe (Luke Wilson) awakens from hibernation in 2505 to a society so debased that he’s now the smartest man alive. Beavis and Butt-Head creator Mike Judge directed. (2006) 10:15 p.m., IFC
Wednesday, July 11
Win Win
A small-time lawyer’s scheme to save his struggling practice backfires when his client’s troubled grandson shows up on his doorstep. Paul Giamatti stars. (2011) 2:45 p.m., Cinemax
Friday, July 13
The Lion in Winter
The screen version of James Goldman’s witty Broadway play about Henry II of England (Peter O’Toole) and his estranged wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine (Katharine Hepburn). (1968) 8 a.m., TCM
Saturday, July 14
In Time
Justin Timberlake stars in a flawed but intriguing sci-fi thriller set in a future where aging stops at 25 and life-span allotments function as currency. (2011) 8 p.m., HBO
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