Here are some of the more chauvinist offerings popping up on telegram today. Spike airs all 10 episodes of the first-rate World War II epic "Band of Brothers," starting at 9 a.m. The miniseries tracks Easy Company through Normandy, the Battle of the Bulge and into Germany, where it helped free concentration camps and in the end captured the Eagle’s Nest in Berchtesgaden. ‘Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery" takes a sobering gaze at just out sacrifices at 9:30 a.m. on HBO.
The documentary visits the split of the sepulture turf restrained for personnel who died in Iraq and Afghanistan. Kevin Bacon is a soldierly shepherd accompanying the body of a Marine domicile in "Taking Chance" at 4:30 p.m. on HBO.
The Documentary Channel airs "Who Will Stand," an in-depth face at post-traumatic emphasis chaos in Iraq vets at 8 p.m. AMC has a built prime of programming featuring a accepted battalion of celluloid warriors, starting with William Holden in "The Devils’ Brigade" at 9:30 a.m., followed by "The Enemy Below" with Robert Mitchum at 12:30 p.m. Audie Murphy’s "To Hell and Back" charges in at 2:45 p.m., backed up by "The Big Red One" with Lee Marvin at 5:15 p.m. It wouldn’t be Memorial Day without a Clint Eastwood appearance. Here he’s in "Heartbreak Ridge" at 8 p.m. "Courage Under Fire," an Operation Desert Storm anecdote with Denzel Washington, Meg Ryan and , mops it all up at 11 p.m. You aver you emergency more Eastwood? Turner Classic Movies provides a double-shot with "Where Eagles Dare" (which also provides some hand-out Richard Burton and Alistair Maclean) at 5 p.m. "Kelly’s Heroes," at 8 p.m., tracks a unit of American soldiers (Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, Carroll O’Connor, Donald Sutherland, Gavin MacLeod and Harry Dean Stanton) led by Eastwood who sidle across the opposition lines to get their hands on Nazi gold.
Encore has enlisted a enduring detachment of its own, starting at 8 a.m. with "MacArthur," starring Gregory Peck, which follows the habitual from the melee of Corregidor through his end by President Truman. A barrage follows, with "Bat*21" at 10:15 a.m., the mobile "Glory" at noon, "Miracle at St. Anna" at 2:05 p.m., the 2001 retelling of "Pearl Harbor" at 4:50 p.m., the multiple Oscar-winning "Patton" at 8 p.m. (though George C. Scott refused his Best Actor Award for this 1970 film) and the visceral, testosterone-packed "Black Hawk Down" at 10:50 p.m. Locally, WCVB (Ch. 5) presents "An American Salute: The Pops at 125" at 7:30 p.m. with a multimedia display saluting the Kennedy brothers and featuring readings by Robert De Niro, Ed Harris and Morgan Freeman.
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