Blog Post: Tom Brokaw Hosts AMC Network's 'Memorial Day War Heroes Weekend'

Stay home and enjoy some great weekend entertainment for the entire family with a holiday-themed marathon. This annual four-day programming event will be comprised of airings of classic war movies, including Patton, The Dirty Dozen, Midway, and, for the first time together Clint Eastwood’s Flags of our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima, among many others.

War Heroes weekend airs Friday, May 25, through Monday, May 28.

Interspersed throughout each film will be episodes from AMC’s original short documentary series, A Path to Honor. Created by Academy^® Award-winning producer and director James Moll, the four documentary shorts depict seminal moments in the lives of those who serve our country in the armed forces from their enlistment process, deployment overseas and active duty in the field to their emotional homecomings.

As host, Brokaw will introduce films, including:

• AMC celebrates the 45^th anniversary of The Dirty Dozen on Friday, May 25, at 8 p.m. and Midway at 11:30 p.m.
• AMC premieres Flags of Our Fathers on Saturday, May 26, at 8 p.m. followed by Letters from Iwo Jima at 11 p.m.
• AMC premieres of Hart's War on Sunday, May 27, at 5 p.m.
• The channel will encore airings of Midway on Monday, May 28, at 5 p.m. and Flags of Our Fathers at 8 p.m.

Additional films on Friday include: A Bridge Too Far at 9 a.m., the Academy Award^®-winning Patton at 1 p.m., The Green Berets at 5 p.m. and The Great Raid at 2:30 a.m.

Other films airing Saturday include: Battle of the Bulge at 7:15 a.m., The Green Berets at 11 a.m., Midway at 2 p.m., Heartbreak Ridge at 5 p.m. and Patton at 2 a.m.

Films on Sunday include: To Hell and Back at 10 a.m. and Apocalypse Now: Redux at 12:30 p.m. Finally, on Monday, the channel will feature encore presentations of Heartbreak Ridge at 11 a.m. and The Green Berets at 2 p.m.