This holiday weekend is all about remembering those heroes who paid the ultimate price for freedom. To celebrate Memorial Day, millions across the country will be gathering to celebrate the occasion with family, food, and fireworks.
For those who are engaging in the American-as-apple-pie tradition of catching some much-needed rest on the extended weekend, well, we’re here to help. Here are some of the best Memorial Day-themed television and movie marathons airing throughout the weekend, along with a rundown of where to find your favorites on streaming right now, and a few marathons for those who are just looking to unwind.
The Best Memorial Day-Related TV Show Marathons
Throughout the weekend, several television channels will be devoting their air time to shows that are the perfect fit for the occasion of remembering fallen heroes, and there are quite a few all-timers available on streaming now as well.
- Band of Brothers – AMC (5/27 from 11 a.m. to 1:19 a.m. Tuesday), HBO2 (5/27 from 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.)
- Vietnam in HD – The History Channel (5/26 from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m.)
- What History Forgot – American Heroes Channel (5/25 from 6 a.m. to 5 p.m.)
- World War II in Color – American Heroes Channel (5/26 from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. Monday)
- The World Wars – The History Channel (5/27 from 2 to 8 p.m.)
- WWII in HD – The History Channel (5/27 from 8 a.m. – 2 p.m.)
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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, Peaco*ck, 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, Peaco*ck, 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 – Peaco*ck
- 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
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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.)
- – 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.)
