The WETA Movie

Watch classic films, commercial free when WETA broadcasts a movie favorite on Friday and Saturday. Pop some popcorn, settle into your easy chair, and enjoy The WETA Movie on WETA TV 26!

Upcoming movies

Auntie Mame

Saturday, November 1 at 9:00 pm
Sunday, November 2 at 11:00 am
Thursday, November 27 at 9:30 am
In the 1958 musical, the legendary Rosalind Russell re-creates on screen her Broadway triumph as an eccentric grande dame, Mame Dennis, the flamboyant, devil-may-care aunt of young, impressionable 10-year-old Patrick Dennis, who is left in Mame's care to learn to appreciate life when his millionaire father dies.

Lilies of the Field

Saturday, November 1 at 11:30 pm
Sidney Poitier stars as a handyman who, while stranded in an Arizona town, befriends a group of East German nuns and helps them build a chapel.

Laura

Saturday, November 8 at 9:00 pm
Thursday, November 27 at 12:00 pm
In the 1944 drama, Laura Hunt (Gene Tierney) has been murdered. New York detective Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews) investigates, and he gradually falls under Laura's spell.

The Great Escape

Saturday, November 8 at 10:30 pm
Steve McQueen leads an all-star cast in this 1963 adventure that blends a true-life World War II prison camp saga and Hollywood's gift for storytelling into a bravura, blockbuster film.

Three Coins in a Fountain

Saturday, November 15 at 9:00 pm
Thursday, November 27 at 1:30 pm
In this 1954 romantic comedy, three American roommates working in Italy wish for the man of their dreams after throwing coins into Rome's magnificent Trevi Fountain. Starring are Dorothy McGuire, Jean Peters, Clifton Webb, Louis Jourdan and others.

Giant

Saturday, November 15 at 10:43 pm
George Stevens won an Academy Award for his direction of this legendary 1956 film based on Edna Ferber's novel. Featuring an all-star cast including Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson and James Dean, this film follows the lives of a wealthy Texan, his wife and an ambitious young ranch hand who becomes an oil tycoon.

A Shot in the Dark

Saturday, November 22 at 9:00 pm
Sunday, November 23 at 11:00 am
Thursday, November 27 at 3:15 pm
The 1964 film, a sequel to The Pink Panther, stars Peter Sellers and Elke Sommer. Inspector Clouseau tries to prove a beautiful parlor maid is innocent of killing her chauffeur lover.

The Russians are Coming! The Russians are Coming!

Saturday, November 22 at 10:43 pm
Alan Arkin and Jonathan Winters lead an all-star cast (Carl Reiner, Eva Marie Saint, Brian Keith, Theodore Bikel) in the outrageous 1966 Cold War comedy about a Russian submarine that runs aground off the New England coast, leading the local residents of a small community to mobilize.