SOUNDER
TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET
Both Cicely Tyson and Paul Winfield received Oscar nominations for their roles in this 1972 film about African-American sharecroppers in the Deep South during the Depression – the first time two people of color were nominated from the same movie. They play a proud couple trying to get by, and advance their prospects, in a highly prejudiced environment. And Kevin Hooks, who plays their young son, was at the start of a still-illustrious career. Before the Seventies were through, he had gone from co-starring on Bruce Paltrow’s The White Shadow to directing several episodes of another impressive Paltrow series, St. Elsewhere. Hooks has been directing ever since: on episodes of V and China Beach in the 1980s; Doogie Howser, M.D., I’ll Fly Away and Homicide: Life on the Street in the 1990s; NYPD Blue, Lost, Alias, and 24 in the 2000s; and, so far this decade, The Good Wife, The X-Files, and This Is Us.