THE DEFIANT ONES
TCM, 10:00 p.m. ET
It’s also, given the rising awareness of racial inequality and tension, a perfect time to revisit this 1958 Stanley Kramer film. Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier play two convicts who escaped while chained together, and must work together in order to evade recapture. Adding to the drama: one of them is white, the other is black, and each of them carries his own prejudices against the other’s race.