The Best TV & Movie Marathons This Memorial Day Weekend

The Best Memorial Day Movies on TV

This weekend, there’ll also be a ton of Memorial Day-themed movie content hitting major channels, like AMC, BBC America, and Turner Classic Movies. (Titles listed in alphabetical order, and streaming options included where applicable.)

• 1917 – Showtime 2 (5/24 at 9 a.m.), Paramount+ with Showtime
• The Best Years of Our Lives – TCM (5/26 at 11:15 p.m.), Hoopla, Peacock, Plex, PlutoTV, Prime Video
• Black Hawk Down – AMC (5/24 at 2 a.m.), BBC America (5/26 at 5 & 11:30 p.m.), AMC+, Hoopla, Tubi
• The Caine Mutiny – TCM (5/24 at 8 p.m.)
• Courage Under Fire – Starz Encore (5/27 at 1:43 a.m.), Starz in Black (5/27 at 5:14 a.m.), Starz
• The Dirty Dozen – TCM (5/26 at 2:15 p.m.), Vudu
• Flags of Our Fathers – BBC America (5/26 at 2 p.m.), AMC+
• Hacksaw Ridge – AMC (5/23 at 11 p.m., 5/24 at 9 a.m.), Netflix, The Roku Channel, Tubi
• Men in War – AMC (5/25 at 12:30 a.m.), Plex, The Roku Channel, Tubi
• Pearl Harbor – AMC (5/24 at 12 p.m.), FX (5/26 at 11 p.m.), FXM (5/27 at 7:45 & 11:30 p.m.)
• Platoon – TCM (5/24 at 10:15 p.m.), FuboTV, MGM+, PlutoTV, The Roku Channel, Tubi
• The Red Badge of Courage – TCM (5/26 at 3:15 a.m.)
• Rescue Dawn – Cinemax (5/24 at 1:48 p.m and 5/26 at 8:46 a.m.)
• Saving Private Ryan – Showtime Extreme (5/24 at 3 p.m.), The Movie Channel (5/25 at 8 p.m.), Paramount (5/25 at 11:43 p.m.), Paramount+, Pluto TV
• They Were Expendable – (TCM at 9:30 a.m.)
• U-571 – Starz Encore Action (5/27 at 3:42 a.m. and 1:45 p.m.), Starz
• We Were Soldiers – Showcase (5/24 at 12:15 p.m., 5/27 at 6:35 p.m.)
• Zero Dark Thirty – BBC America (5/26 at 8 p.m., 5/27 at 2:30 a.m.), AMC+, Tubi

For a full list of the Memorial Day movies hitting TV this weekend, click here.

The Best Memorial Day-Related Movies and Shows on Streaming

In addition to all of the great movies that celebrate soldiers and are airing on TV, the streaming scene features a bunch of best-of options as well, from celebrated small screen dramas to sweeping epic actioners to docuseries and beyond.

• Act of Valor – Showtime
• American Sniper – Max
• Born on the Fourth of July – Netflix
• Casablanca – Max
• Cold Mountain – MGM+
• The Covenant – Prime Video
• Darkest Hour – Netflix
• Das Boot – FuboTV
• The Deer Hunter – Prime Video
• Devotion – Paramount+
• Enemy at the Gates – Hoopla, Peacock, PlutoTV
• Full Metal Jacket – Tubi
• Fury – AMC+
• Generation Kill – Max
• Glory – Prime Video
• Good Morning, Vietnam – Tubi
• The Great Escape – FuboTV, Hoopla, PlutoTV, Prime Video, Tubi
• Greyhound – Apple TV+
• The Hurt Locker – Peacock
• Jarhead – Starz
• Land of Mine – Starz
• Letters from Iwo Jima – Tubi
• Lincoln – Paramount+
• Lone Survivor – Prime Video
• The Longest War – Paramount+
• M*A*S*H – Hulu
• The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress – Max
• Men of Honor – FuboTV, FX Now, Hulu
• The Pacific – Netflix
• The Pacific War in Color – Paramount+
• The Pianist – Prime Video, Tubi
• Resistance: 1942 – Paramount+
• Schindler’s List – Prime Video
• Stalag 17 – Hoopla, Kanopy, The Roku Channel, Tubi, Xumo
• The Thin Red Line – Starz
• Turn: Washington’s Spies – AMC+, The Roku Channel
• The Tuskegee Airmen – Max
• Wings – Hoopla, Kanopy, Tubi
• World War II: From the Front Lines – Netflix

TV and Movie Marathons to Tune Out With

Last, but certainly not least, there’ll also be quite a few television and movie marathons airing on the small screen this weekend that have little to nothing to do with Memorial Day. So if you’re looking for a marathon that might take your mind off the more serious matters in life, look no further.

• Below Deck & Below Deck Mediterranean – Bravo (5/24 from 6 a.m. – 9 p.m.; 5/25 from 7 a.m. – 5 p.m. Sunday)
• Caught! – Discovery Channel (5/25 from 4 p.m. to 4 a.m.)
• Diners, Drive-ins & Dives – Food Network (5/24 from 1 – 9 p.m.; 5/25 from 8 p.m. – 4 a.m.; 5/25 from 2-7 p.m.)
• Frozen Planet II – BBC America (5/25 from 7:10 a.m. to 2 p.m.)
• Gold Rush – Discovery Channel (5/24 from 6 a.m. – 5 a.m,)
• Jurassic Park movies – E! (5/24 from 9 a.m. to 3 a.m.)
• Lethal Weapon movies – BBC America (5/24 from 10:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.)
• Modern Family – E! (5/27 from 8 a.m. – 11 p.m.)
• Murder, She Wrote – Great American Family (5/25 from 12 a.m. – 6 a.m. Sunday)
• Pirates of the Caribbean movies – FX (5/26 from 10 a.m. – 11 p.m.)
• Police Academy movies – IFC (5/24 from 4:45 p.m. – 1 a.m.; 5/25 from 11:45 a.m. – 8 p.m.)