Memorial Day TV Schedule: Movies, TV Marathons To Watch May 25

While Memorial Day may be the official kick-off to summer festivities, things are going to be a little different this year due to COVID-19. With beaches either closed or enforcing social distancing, not everyone will be enjoying the holiday outdoors this year—meaning some marathons of television episodes and movies honoring the troops that have been lost (or just binge-worthy marathons celebrating summer in general) are a perfect way to celebrate a day that may be at home.

Check out a full schedule of marathons and movies below (all times EDT):

12:03 a.m.:

• History Channel: “The World Wars”: After the fighting stops, tensions continue to simmer just beneath the surface, and few realize that the seeds of the next great global conflict have already been sown; Jeremy Renner narrates

12:30 a.m.:

• Turner Classic Movies: “Wings” (1927): Two World War I pilots (Charles “Buddy” Rogers, Richard Arlen) woo a young woman (Clara Bow) and fight the Germans.

1:00 a.m.:

• FX: “The Expendables” (2010): A mercenary (Sylvester Stallone) and his men learn that their assignment to overthrow a South American dictator is a suicide mission.

3:00 a.m.:

• Turner Classic Movies: “Westfront 1918” (1930): German soldiers try to hold their position against French forces near the end of World War I.

4:45 a.m.:

• Turner Classic Movies: “The Red Badge of Courage” (1951): Based on Stephen Crane’s novel of a young Union soldier panicked upon exposure to his first Civil War battle.

6:00 a.m.:

• Bravo: “Below Deck Sailing Yacht”- Season 1, Episode 2- “My Big Fat Bleak Wedding”
• Turner Classic Movies: “Battle Cry” (1955): During World War II, Marine trainees mix duty with romance in Leon Uris’ adaptation of his own novel.

7:00 a.m.:

• Bravo: “Below Deck Sailing Yacht”- Season 1, Episode 3- “Rosé-Fueled Regrets”
• FX: “300: The Rise of an Empire” (2014): Greek Gen. Themistocles (Sullivan Stapleton) leads the charge to fight invading Persian forces led by the God Xerxes—once a mortal—and Artemesia (Eva Green).
• History Channel: “The Presidents: 1865-1885": The nation faces the difficult task of rebuilding a union after four years of civil war and a presidential assassination.

8:00 a.m.:

• Bravo: “Below Deck Sailing Yacht”- Season 1, Episode 4- “Baby on Board”
• History Channel: “Modern Marvel: Civil War Tech”: Civil War technology revolutionizes the way war is waged.

8:30 a.m.:

• Turner Classic Movies: “Where Eagles Dare” (1969): Allied agents (Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood) lead commandos sent to free a general from a castle in Bavaria.

9:00 a.m.:

• Bravo: “Below Deck Sailing Yacht”- Season 1, Episode 5- “Shmexual Shmension”
• History Channel: “Vietnam in HD: The Beginning (1964-1965); Search & Destroy (1966-1967): Operation Rolling Thunder roars across the skies over North Vietnam; American troops launch a widespread search and destroy operations

9:30 a.m.:

• AMC: “Saving Private Ryan” (1998): A World War II captain (Tom Hanks) and his squad (Edward Burns, Tom Sizemore) risk all to locate and send home a soldier whose three brothers died in combat.

10:00 a.m.:

• Bravo: “Below Deck Sailing Yacht”-Season 1, Episode 6- “Oof! I Did It Again”

10:30 a.m.:

• FX: “The Expendables” (2010)

11:00 a.m.:

• Bravo: “Below Deck Sailing Yacht- Season 1, Episode 7- “Oooof There It Is!”
• History Channel: “Vietnam in HD: The Tet Offensive (1968): An Endless War (1968-1969): The massive Tet Offensive catches the Americans by surprise; Americans mount a counteroffensive; the turmoil of 1968 helps Nixon win the presidency; troop strength in Vietnam peaks and the draft accelerates.

11:15 a.m.:

• Turner Classic Movies: “The Great Escape” (1963): Allied soldiers (Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough) dig a tunnel out of a Nazi prison camp, pocketfuls of dirt at a time

12:00 p.m.:

• Bravo: “Below Deck Sailing Yacht”-Season 1, Episode 8- “No Bra, No Shoes, Bad Service”

1:00 p.m.:

• Bravo: “Below Deck Sailing Yacht”- Season 1, Episode 9- “Parker’s Big Adventure”
• History Channel: “Vietnam in HD: A Changing War (1969-1970); Peace with Honor (1971-1975): Troop withdrawals begin; Gary Benedetti patrols the Mekong Delta; James Anderson leads a battalion into Cambodia; Bob Clewell’s helicopter crew comes under intense fire; Joe Galloway returns to Vietnam; Barry Romo throws down his medals in protest.

1:30 p.m.

• AMC: “Fury” (2014): During World War II, a battle-hardened Army Sergeant (Brad Pitt) leads the crew of a Sherman tank on a deadly mission behind enemy lines to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany.

2:00 p.m.:

• Bravo: “Below Deck Sailing Yacht”- Season 1, Episode 10- “Big Deck Energy”

2:15 p.m.:

• Turner Classic Movies: “The Dirty Dozen” (1967): A U.S. Army major selects and trains 12 hard-core criminals for a daring raid on an impregnable Nazi chateau.

3:00 p.m.:

• Bravo: “Below Deck Sailing Yacht”-Season 1, Episode 11- “May The Breast Man Win”
• History Channel: “The Food That Built America: Memorial Day Cookout Edition:” At the dawn of the 20th century, a new breed of innovator rises up to expand American industry; WWII sees competing industrial empires joining the war effort; post-war America, visionaries battle to revolutionize the restaurant industry.

4:00 p.m.:

• Bravo: “Below Deck Sailing Yacht”- Season 1, Episode 12- “New Chris on the Block”

4:30 p.m.

• AMC: “American Sniper” (2014): Sniper and U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle (Bradley Cooper) saves many lives on battlefields in Iraq while striving to be a good husband and father to his loved ones back in America.

5:00 p.m.:

• Bravo: “Below Deck Sailing Yacht”- Season 1, Episode 13- “#Awkward”
• Turner Classic Movies: “Battle of the Bulge” (1965): Allied officers (Henry Fonda, Robert Ryan) and a German tank commander (Robert Shaw) have a tactical showdown in the Ardennes forest, December 1944.

6:00 p.m.:

• Bravo: “Below Deck Sailing Yacht”- Season 1, Episode 14- “The Birds”

7:00 p.m.:

• Bravo: “Below Deck Sailing Yacht”- Season 1, Episode 15- “You Snooze, You Lose”
• Food Network: “Guy’s Grocery Games”- Season 18, Episode 7- “GGG’s Salute to Summer”: Guy Fieri invites four chef veterans from different branches of the military to compete in two summer-themed games in front of an audience of veterans; the chefs make a summer seafood feast using what they can fit into a shockingly small mini-cooler.

7:30 p.m.

• AMC: “Top Gun” (1986): A hot-shot Navy pilot (Tom Cruise) tangles with MiGs and flirts with a civilian astrophysicist (Kelly McGillis).

8:00 p.m.:

• Bravo: “Below Deck Sailing Yacht”- Season 1, Episode 16- “Behind the Episode 116”
• Food Network: “Guy’s Grocery Games”- Season 23, Episode 25- “Salute the Troops”: Guy honors America’s men and women in uniform by inviting four military vets with a culinary second-calling; they’ll be joining forces with the Messlords, a group of DDD chefs who travel the world cooking for our troops; a Flavortown obstacle course.
• Turner Classic Movies: “The Best Years of Our Lives” (1946): A disabled serviceman and two other veterans (Frederic March, Dana Andrews) have difficulty adjusting to civilian life after World War II.

9:00 p.m.:

• Bravo: “Below Deck Sailing Yacht”- Season 1, Episode 17- “Regatta Go!”
• History Channel: “Grant: Unlikely Hero”: In one of the unlikeliest stories in American history, Ulysses S. Grant rises from his humble beginnings to become the winning general in one of the Civil War’s bloodiest battles.

11:00 p.m.:

• Turner Classic Movies: “Till the End of Time” (1946): Three servicemen return from World War II; one (Guy Madison) loves a war widow (Dorothy McGuire); another one (Robert Mitchum) drinks in pain.