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The WETA Movie

The WETA Movie

 

 

 

 

Save your weekends for movies on TV 26.

Watch classic films, commercial free when WETA broadcasts a movie favorite on WETA TV 26. Pop some popcorn, settle into your easy chair, and enjoy The WETA Movie!

Upcoming movies

The Great Escape

Saturday, October 31 at 9 pm on TV 26 & WETA HD
Sunday, November 1 at 11:30 am on TV 26
Steve McQueen leads an all-star cast in John Sturges' 1963 adventure film that blends a true-life World War II prison camp saga and Hollywood's gift for storytelling into a bravura, blockbuster film. Co-starring are James Garner, Charles Bronson, Richard Attenborough, James Coburn and Donald Pleasence. (2:53)

 

An American in Paris

Saturday, November 7 at 9 pm on TV 26 & WETA HD
Sunday, November 8 at 11:30 am on TV 26
Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron star in Vincente Minnelli's Academy Award-winning 1951 musical about a struggling American artist who falls for a shop girl in Paris. (1:55)

 

An Affair to Remember

Saturday, November 7 at 11 pm on TV 26 & WETA HD
Sunday, November 8 at 1:30 pm on TV 26
Leo McCarey’s 1957 romance stars Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr as two cruise-ship passengers who plan to reunite six months later atop the Empire State Building. (1:55)

 

Mississippi Burning

Saturday, November 14 at 9 pm on TV 26 & WETA HD
The 1988 drama stars Gene Hackman and Willem Defoe as two FBI agents investigating the disappearance of three civil rights activists in 1964 Mississippi. (2:08)

 

Harry and Tonto

Sunday, November 15 at 11:30 am on TV 26
The 1974 film starring Art Carney as Harry Coombes, an elderly widower who is forced from his condemned New York City apartment against his will. (1:15)

 

Never on Sunday

Saturday, November 21 at 9 pm on TV 26 & WETA HD
Sunday, November 22 at 11:30 am on TV 26
The story of Ilya, a prostitute who lives in the port of Piraeus in Greece, and Homer, an American tourist and classical scholar enamored with all things Greek. (1:31)

 

Top Hat

Saturday, November 21 at 10:30 pm on TV 26 & WETA HD
Sunday, November 22 at 1 pm on TV 26
A woman mistakenly believes that an enamored dancer is her best friend's husband in the classic 1935 musical romance. Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers and Edward Everett Horton star. Lucille Ball appears in an uncredited role. (1:39)

 

More recommended movies

If you like your movies intense and unexpected, check out the WETA Independent Cuts series. It's our monthly selection of the best of independent, non-fiction films.