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TCM, 6:15 a.m. ET

All this month, TCM is devoting Mondays and Tuesdays, day and night, to the Western, with a 100-film retrospective, hosted by Keith Carradine. And the entire thing begins today, early, at 6:15 am. ET, with the first Western ever filmed: 1903’s The Great Train Robbery, the Edwin S. Porter-directed action film, fewer than 15 minutes in length, that ends with a famous shot of one of the bad guys pointing his gun directly at the audience and firing.

STAGECOACH

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

So many great movies were made in 1939, and John Ford’s Stagecoach, presenting a young John Wayne as the Ringo Kid, certainly was one of them. Andy Devine, Claire Trevor and John Carradine are here, too – and the now-iconic scenery, which Ford basically introduced to most of America.

THE HUNT

BBC America, 9:00 p.m. ET

SERIES PREMIERE: This new nature series, narrated by Sir David Attenborough, premiered on Sunday night, but expect many people missed it over the holiday weekend. But it’s marvelous, and this first episode, full of the predatory practices of Nile crocodiles, river spiders and wild dogs, is photographed spectacularly.

THE SEARCHERS

TCM, 9:45 p.m. ET

More than 15 years after making Stagecoach, John Ford and John Wayne reteamed for 1956’s The Searchers, one of my very favorite Westerns. Wayne plays a complicated, stubborn Civil War veteran with a hatred for native Americans, who leads a search for a young girl kidnapped by Comanches. Wayne’s character, Ethan, is unusually complex and dark, as is this movie. Jeffrey Hunter, Natalie Wood co-star.

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