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Monday, Nov. 29

The Great Dictator

In his first talking film, Charlie Chaplin makes fun of Hitler, playing dictator Adenoid Hynkel and his look-alike, a Jewish barber. This National Film Registry selection was the first major film to satirize Nazism. (1940) Midnight, TCM

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Tuesday

The Perfect Storm

The film version of Sebastian Junger’s best-seller about the 1991 northeaster that doomed a Gloucester, Mass., fishing boat. With George Clooney and a fine Mark Wahlberg. (2000) 10 a.m., AMC

Wednesday

Living the Legacy: The Untold Story of Milton Hershey School

Cameras follow four students through their first year at a school for underprivileged children founded by a famed Pennsylvania chocolate-maker. (2009) 3:45 p.m., IFC

Thursday

Water

The third part of director Deepa Mehta’s “Elements” trilogy focuses on a group of widows living at an ashram in 1938 India. An Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film. (2005) 2:50 p.m., IFC

Friday

Groundhog Day

In this witty comedy-fantasy, Bill Murray plays a selfish weatherman condemned to live February 2 over and over again until he gets it right. (1993) 6:15 p.m., Encore

Saturday

The Snake Pit

Olivia de Havilland received a Best Actress Oscar nomination for her portrayal of a woman institutionalized after a nervous breakdown. (1948) 8 p.m., TCM

Sunday

The Leopard

Director Luchino Visconti’s sweeping historical epic about the decline of Italy’s 19th-century aristocracy won the Palme d’Or at Cannes. With Burt Lancaster and Alain Delon. (1963) 12 p.m., FMC