HARRIET
HBO, 8:00 p.m. ET
Even with some Academy Award nominations to its credit, this movie didn’t make enough of a splash when it was released last year, but that just makes it even more of a treat during these stay-at-home pandemic weekends. (Which are different from the weekdays how, at this point?) Anyway, this is the dramatized story of Harriet Tubman, who went from being a slave herself to helping hundreds of other slaves make their way to freedom. And what a cast: In addition to Cynthia Erivo from HBO’s The Outsider in the title role, you also have, as co-stars, Janelle Monáe from Moonlight and Clarke Peters from HBO’s The Wire. Erivo was nominated for Oscars for her supporting actress work and as co-composer of one of the film’s songs, “Stand Up.”