Movies on TV

Monday, Dec. 6

Letters From Iwo Jima

Director Clint Eastwood’s follow-up to Flags of Our Fathers portrays the World War II battle for the Pacific island from Japan’s point of view. A Best Picture Oscar nominee. (2006) 7 p.m., IFC

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Tuesday

Three Came Home

Claudette Colbert is outstanding as an American woman in a brutal Japanese internment camp in World War II Borneo. From the memoir by Agnes Newton Keith. (1950) 6 p.m., TCM

Wednesday

Sunset Boulevard

Billy Wilder’s savage take on Hollywood stars Gloria Swanson as a faded star who believes she’s still big: “It’s

the pictures that got small.” With William Holden. (1950) 8 p.m., TCM

Thursday

Blood Feud

Robert Blake was nominated for an Emmy and a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Jimmy Hoffa in this TV movie about the union leader’s long-running clash with Robert F. Kennedy. (1983) 7 p.m., FMC

Friday

Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Cate Blanchett played Elizabeth I a second time—and drew her second Best Actress Oscar nomination for it—in this sequel to 1998’s Elizabeth. (2007) 11:30 a.m., HBO

Saturday

Swimming With Sharks

Kevin Spacey was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award as a film-studio executive so abusive that he drives his assistant to take him hostage. (1994) 3:15 p.m., IFC

Sunday

White Christmas

The title tune is only one of many Irving Berlin songs punctuating this seasonal favorite, which stars Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye as nightclub entertainers trying to revive a failing Vermont inn. (1954) 8 p.m., AMC