TCM Schedule for Monday July 28, 2025 - Disability in Film

Daytime features various English monarchs.

(all times Eastern)

6:00 AM Captain Kidd (1945)
1h 29m | Adventure | TV-G
An infamous pirate tries to double cross the King of England.
Director: Rowland V. Lee. Cast: Charles Laughton, Randolph Scott, Barbara Britton

7:30 AM The Sea Hawk (1940)
2h 7m | Adventure | TV-G
A British buccaneer holds the Spanish fleet at bay with the covert approval of Elizabeth I.
Director: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Claude Rains

9:45 AM The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
1h 42m | Adventure | TV-G
The bandit king of Sherwood Forest leads his Merry Men in a battle against the corrupt Prince John.
Director: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia De Havilland, Basil Rathbone

11:45 AM Young Bess (1953)
1h 52m | Romance | TV-G
The future Elizabeth I fights court intrigue in the turbulent years before her ascension to the throne.
Director: George Sidney. Cast: Jean Simmons, Deborah Kerr, Charles Laughton

1:45 PM The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)
1h 33m | Drama | TV-PG
The famed English monarch suffers through five of his six disastrous marriages.
Director: Alexander Korda. Cast: Charles Laughton, Merle Oberon, Wendy Barrie

3:30 PM The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
1h 46m | Romance | TV-G
Elizabeth I's love for the Earl of Essex threatens to destroy her kingdom.
Director: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Olivia De Havilland

5:30 PM Henry V (1944)
2h 16m | Epic | TV-PG
Shakespeare's tale of the warrior king who learns the meaning of heroism during a daring invasion of France.
Director: Laurence Olivier. Cast: Laurence Olivier, Robert Newton, Renee Asherson

8:00 PM Compensation (1999)
1h 32m | Drama | TV-PG
The life of a deaf African American woman in the early 1900s parallels with that of another woman living in the 1990s.
Director: Zeinabu Irene Davis. Cast: Michelle A. Banks, Nirvana Cobb, John Earl Jelks

10:00 PM Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
1h 21m | Suspense | TV-PG
A one-armed veteran uncovers small-town secrets when he tries to visit an Asian-American war hero's family.
Director: John Sturges. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis

11:30 PM Ship of Fools (1965)
2h 29m | Drama | TV-14
Passengers on a steam ship in the '30s struggle with their tangled relations and the rise of Nazism.
Director: Stanley Kramer. Cast: Vivien Leigh, Simone Signoret, José Ferrer

2:15 AM CinemAbility: The Art of Inclusion (2018)
1h 37m | Documentary | TV-PG
An investigation into the way media portrayals impact the actual inclusion of people with disabilities in society.
Director: Jenni Gold. Cast: Ben Affleck, Jane Seymour, Bryan Cranston

4:00 AM The Liquidator (1966)
1h 44m | Suspense | TV-14
A killer-for-hire gets mixed up with a plot to assassinate England's Prince Phillip.
Director: Jack Cardiff. Cast: Rod Taylor, Trevor Howard, Jill St. John