Thursday, June 6, is the 80th Anniversary of the D-Day Invasion; TCM is showing a 24-hour marathon of movies about D-Day, Beginning with Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan (1998), at 8 p.m. ET

By David in TN
wednesday, june 5, 2024 at 3:22:00 p.m. edt

Thursday, June 6, is the 80th Anniversary of the D-Day Invasion. TCM is showing a 24-hour marathon of movies about D-Day. For prime time, Saving Private Ryan (1998) is showing at 8 p.m. ET. The Longest Day (1962), is on at 11 p.m. ET.

After The Longest Day, TCM features Eye of the Needle (1981), an old-fashioned thriller, with Donald Sutherland and Kate Nelligan, at 2:15 a.m. ET.

Sutherland plays a Nazi spy with the secret to the site of the landing who shipwrecks near an island off the Scottish coast. He seduces the wife (Nelligan) of a crippled RAF pilot. The end has Nelligan trying to keep Sutherland from getting on a U-Boat with the D-Day secret.