TCM Schedule for Thurs, June 19, 2025: Celebrating Juneteenth

Gary Cooper kicks-off Wednesday programming before it segues into a full day celebrating Juneteenth.

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7:30 AM | Bright Leaf (1950)
Two tobacco growers battle for control of the cigarette market.
Dir: Michael Curtiz | Cast: Gary Cooper, Lauren Bacall, Patricia Neal


DAYTIME (EST)

9:30 AM | Sparkle (1976)
Three sisters form a singing group in 1950s Harlem, but success threatens to ruin their relationship forever.
Dir: Sam O'Steen | Cast: Philip Michael Thomas, Irene Cara, Lonette McKee

11:15 AM | Say Amen, Somebody - The Good News Musical (1982)
The lives and music of early gospel artists are documented.
Dir: George T Nierenberg | Cast: Rhodessa Barrett Porter, Edgar O'Neal, Zella Jackson Price

1:00 PM | How They Got Over (2018)
How African Americans created the musical form that started out as gospel and became rock and roll.
Dir: Robert Clem | Cast: Robert Clem

2:30 PM | Soul Power (2008) TCM PREMIERE
A filmed account of the three-day music festival "Zaire '74" which took place in Kinshasa, Zaire, in September 1974.
Dir: Jeffrey Levy-Hinte | Cast: Muhammad Ali, James Brown, Don King

4:30 PM | Round Midnight (1986) TCM PREMIERE
A troubled but talented musician flees the US to escape his problems, finding refuge and support in Paris.
Dir: Bertrand Tavernier | Cast: Dexter Gordon, François Cluzet, Gabrielle Haker

7:00 PM | Before Midnight (1986) TCM PREMIERE
A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of the Bertrand Tavernier film "'Round Midnight."
Dir: Jean Achache | Cast: Dexter Gordon, François Cluzet, Gabrielle Haker


PRIME TIME, LATE NIGHT & EARLY MORNING

8:00 PM | The Wiz (1978)
A teacher leaves dinner one night, gets swept up by a cyclone, and transplanted to the urban version of Oz.
Dir: Sidney Lumet | Cast: Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Nipsey Russell

10:30 PM | Krush Groove (1985)
The story of a man who has started a new hip-hop/rap label called Krush Groove.
Dir: Michael Schultz | Cast: Sheila E., Joseph Simmons, Darryl McDaniels

12:30 AM | Super Fly (1972)
The daily routine of cocaine dealer Priest who wants to score one more super deal and retire.
Dir: Gordon Parks Jr. | Cast: Ron O'Neal, Carl Lee, Julius Harris

2:15 AM | Shaft (1971)
A crime lord hires private eye John Shaft to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.
Dir: Gordon Parks | Cast: Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi

4:15 AM | Black Eye (1974)
A private eye stumbles onto a series of murders connected to a movie star's death.
Dir: Jack Arnold | Cast: Fred Williamson, Rosemary Forsyth, Teresa Graves