Steven Spielberg directed this 1997 historical drama, about a slave ship whose unwilling passengers staged a mutiny during one voyage in 1839 – and about the subsequent court case about the free man who sparked the onboard revolution. Morgan Freeman, Djimon Hounsou star in this movie, which may be one of the most recent films TCM has ever shown.

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1989: JANE PAULEY'S FINAL DAY ON 'TODAY' By Christy Slewinski

This day in 1989 marked Jane Pauley's final day with NBC's Today...

2012

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2012 DEPARTS WITH SOME INDELIBLE TV MOMENTS By Eric Gould

2012 left some memorable TV moments, from a chair to a horsey-dancing rapper...

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MADE IN JERSEY By David Bianculli

Write-Off Theatre, Take One: With only a few days left before the end of the fiscal year, CBS is burning off two first-run episodes of a series it’s already canceled, just to get the loss on the books before the New Year arrives. That’s my deduction – and the network’s, too. Just an observation. Not a recommendation.

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Dec

THE MOB DOCTOR By David Bianculli

Write-Off Theatre, Take Two: With only a few days left before the end of the fiscal year, Fox is burning off a first-run episodes of a series it’s already canceled, just to get the loss on the books before the New Year arrives. That’s my deduction – and the network’s, too. Just an observation. Not a recommendation.

2012

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CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS By David Bianculli

Werner Herzog filmed this 2010 documentary in 3-D – but even in 2-D, it’s breathtaking. Herzog takes us into the Chauvet Cave in southern France, and its Paleolithic cave paintings estimated to be more than 30,000 years old. Herzog, who narrates, has a whispery, reverent, poetic tone, as he explains how the paintings were found, how difficult they were to film, and how experts have interpreted them. They’re thought to be the oldest cave paintings in existence – and, thus,

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THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW By David Bianculli

This episode originally aired on Christmas Day, so it’s likely most people missed it. But the guests for this year’s Christmas special include not only Jennifer Saunders, Bill Connolly and Dustin Hoffman, but current Doctor Who star Matt Smith. And, by the way, his Christmas Day Doctor Who special, The Snowmen, is repeated tonight as well, at 9 p.m. ET. On a slow Saturday night, it makes for a delightful double bill.

2012

Dec

THE WAY WE WERE By David Bianculli

This is a thoroughly modern movie, by TCM standards. Made in 1973, it stars Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford as star-crossed lovers in a period romance with a very famous theme song. And in a few days, this movie will be 40 years old. The way we were? Younger.

2012

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STAR WARS MINI-MARATHON By David Bianculli

Spike is working through most of the Star Wars canon this weekend, beginning tonight with the first two films in the series. Not the first two released, but the first two entries in the prequel trilogy. Star Wars Episode I – The Phantom Menace, from 1999, begins at 6 p.m. ET, and Star Wars Episode II – Attack of the Clones, from 2002, begins at 9:15 p.m. ET. Watch the first film, if for no other reason, to catch the then 17-year-old Natalie Portman as Queen Padme Amidala.

2012

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NINOTCHKA By David Bianculli

Filmed in 1939 (how many great movies were made in 1939?), this Ernst Lubitsch film allowed Greta Garbo to show off her comic side, and to great effect. She plays a super-serious Russian commie, whose views of everything in the Western world are shaped by disbelief and disdain – until, at long last, she warms to the city of Paris and a charming Count, played by Melvyn Douglas. The movie still works, and Garbo’s screen presence still glows.

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