Movies on TV

Monday, Oct. 11

Million Dollar Baby

This saga of a female boxer won four Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director (Clint Eastwood), and Best Actress (Hilary Swank). (2004) 2 p.m., AMC

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Tuesday

Yellow Sky

It’s The Tempest out West as outlaws hole up in a ghost town inhabited by a gold miner and his daughter. Gregory Peck and Anne Baxter star. (1948) 10 a.m., FMC

Wednesday

Touching the Void

An award-winning chronicle of two mountaineers’ harrowing 1985 ordeal in the Peruvian Andes, brought to life through their own narration and remarkable re-enactments. (2003) 4:25 p.m., IFC

Thursday

Orphans of the Storm

Director D.W. Griffith’s silent classic stars Lillian and Dorothy Gish as sisters who struggle to find each other amid the chaos of the French Revolution. (1921) 8 a.m., TCM

Friday

Mister Roberts

Henry Fonda plays a World War II cargo officer under the thumb of a tyrannical captain. With James Cagney, William Powell, and an Oscar-winning Jack Lemmon. (1955) 5:45 p.m., TCM

Saturday

A River Runs Through It

Robert Redford’s adaptation of the Norman Maclean novel meditates on two sons of an early 20th-century Montana minister. Starring Brad Pitt and Craig Sheffer. (1992) 1:40 p.m., Encore

Sunday

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Roald Dahl’s fantasy about a fox’s duel of wits with three farmers is rendered in stop-motion animation in this critically acclaimed adaptation, featuring the voices of George Clooney and Meryl Streep. (2009) 8:30 p.m., Cinemax