TCM Schedule for Monday November 8 - TCM Spotlight: The History of Hollywood

More with TCM "Moguls and Movie Stars" documentary series; tonight the silent era studio pioneers are examnined, plus D.W. Griffith's seminal (and controversial) "Birth of a Nation".

(all times Eastern)

6:30 AM Now Playing November (2010) C-25 mins, TV-PG, CC

7:06 AM Short Film: All Girl Revue (1940)
Women are put in charge of all city positions for a day. June Allyson plays the mayor who must welcome an opera singer at the train station. Musical/comedy revue-style short filled with songs and dances. Cast: June Allyson BW-8 mins,

7:15 AM Best Foot Forward (1943)
A movie star wreaks havoc when she accepts an invitation to a military academy dance. Cast: Lucille Ball, June Allyson, Gloria DeHaven. Dir: Edward Buzzell. C-94 mins, TV-G, CC

9:00 AM Fighting Sullivans, The (1944)
During WWII, five brothers enlist in the Navy and are assigned to serve on the same ship. Cast: Anne Baxter, Thomas Mitchell, Ward Bond. Dir: Lloyd Bacon. BW-111 mins, TV-G, CC

11:00 AM Woman in Green, The (1945)
Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of seemingly unrelated murders. Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Hillary Brooke. Dir: Roy William Neill. BW-67 mins, TV-G, CC

12:15 PM Sherlock Holmes in Dressed to Kill (1946)
Sherlock Holmes sets out to find why people are killing each other over a seemingly inexpensive music box. Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Patricia Morison. Dir: Roy William Neill. BW-71 mins, TV-PG

1:30 PM Egg And I, The (1947)
Newlywed city slickers decide to give country life a try as chicken farmers. Cast: Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Marjorie Main. Dir: Chester Erskine. BW-108 mins, TV-G, CC

3:30 PM Hollow Triumph (1948)
A crook on the lam poses as a psychiatrist. Cast: Paul Henreid, Joan Bennett, Edward Franz. Dir: Steve Sekely. BW-83 mins, TV-PG

5:00 PM Stratton Story, The (1949)
True story of Monty Stratton, the baseball star who fought to continue his career after losing a leg. Cast: James Stewart, June Allyson, Frank Morgan. Dir: Sam Wood. BW-107 mins, TV-G, CC

6:51 PM Short Film: Flicker Memories (1941) BW-8 mins,

7:00 PM Peepshow Pioneers (2010) C-58 mins, , CC, Letterbox Format

8:00 PM Birth of Hollywood, The (2010) C-60 mins, , CC

9:00 PM Traffic In Souls (1913)
Two young innocents are lured into the world of prostitution. Cast: Jane Gail, Ethel Grandin, William Turner. Dir: George Loane Tucker. BW-88 mins, TV-PG

10:30 PM Indian Massacre, The (1912)
Natives kidnap a baby from a white settlement to replace a warrior's lost child. Cast: Francis Ford, Ann Little, Grace Cunard. Dir: Thomas H. Ince. BW-32 mins,

11:00 PM Birth of Hollywood, The (2010) C-60 mins, , CC

12:15 AM Birth Of A Nation, The (1915)
In this silent film, families from the North and the South fight to survive the Civil War and its aftermath. Cast: Henry B. Walthall, Mae Marsh, Lillian Gish. Dir: D.W. Griffith. BW-190 mins, TV-PG

3:30 AM Within Our Gates (1920)
In this silent film, a black schoolteacher finds the battle against racism is everywhere when she goes North to raise money for better schools. Cast: Evelyn Preer, Flo Clements, James D. Ruffin. Dir: Oscar Micheaux. BW-78 mins, TV-14

5:00 AM Blot, The (1921)
Families from opposite ends of the economic scale are drawn together. Cast: Phillip Hubbard, Margaret McWade, Claire Windsor. Dir: Lois Weber. BW-91 mins, TV-G