Movies on TV
Highlights for each day of the week
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
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
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From Da Vinci to a golden toilet: a history of museum heists
In the Spotlight Following the ‘spectacular’ events at the Louvre, museums are ‘increasingly being targeted by criminal gangs’
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Can Gen Z uprisings succeed where other protest movements failed?
Today's Big Question Apolitical and leaderless, youth-led protests have real power but are vulnerable to the strongman opportunist
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The allegations of Christian genocide in Nigeria
The Explainer West African nation has denied claims from US senator and broadcaster