Hulu, 3:00 a.m. ET
DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE: The first person who tells her story, in this documentary about the Harvey Weinstein sexual scandals, gives her account with such passion, such clarity, and such powerful pauses, that the drama is intense almost from the very start – and never lets down. The early history of the Weinstein company may seem only like prologue, but the film circles back to make a strong case for how complicit Hollywood was in not only empowering the mogul, but protecting and enabling him. The many women who speak, and the stories they tell, do not include some of the most famous names tied to this scandal – but some of the names not well known, these women insist, are unknown for a reason, because, by refusing Harvey Weinstein’s sexual advances and demands, their careers in show business had been scuttled.
TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET
The latest of TCM’s periodic dips into the Walt Disney vault contains some small pleasures and rarities – smaller than usual, but still well worth noting, experiencing, and enjoying. The 1947 movie Fun and Fancy Free (8 p.m. ET), a pairing of two different film shorts, includes “Mickey and the Beanstalk,” a successful Disney reworking of the classic Jack and the Beanstalk fable. It’s the last time Disney himself provided the voice of his famous cartoon rodent on film. Also shown tonight (at 9:39 p.m. ET) is 1968’s The Love Bug, starring Dean Jones, which arguably sold a lot of Volkswagen Beetles in the late Sixties and early Seventies. (That’s when I bought my first of two VW Bugs, but not because of the Disney movie. Because they were cheap, and so was I.)
HBO, 9:00 p.m. ET
The complex case of retaliatory killings in and around the West Bank continues in this fact-based miniseries – and the more we learn about the motives, the more we learn how complicated this case really was, and is.
PBS, 10:00 p.m. ET
Director Shaena Mallett presents this new documentary about what many of us, or at least some of us, have held as a sort of imaginary American dream: chucking it all and retiring to a family farm. Farmsteaders tells of Chris Nolan, and his wife, Celeste, and family, who decided to resurrect, occupy, and run the dairy farm once owned by Chris’ grandfather. The question, becomes, is this a dream – or more like a nightmare? Check local listings.