A NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: HOLLYWOOD GOES TO WASHINGTON
TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET
This new TCM documentary is written directed and produced by Laurent Bouzereau, who does a masterful job assembling pertinent film clips and dividing them into various sub-genres, from satiric and historic to romantic and paranoid. He also assembles various artists for personal perspective – an odd and incomplete lot, but the best of them include Rob Reiner and a surprisingly vulnerable Oliver Stone. Hollywood Goes to Washington will make you want to seek out about a dozen great old political movies, and TCM makes it easy by presenting one of the first, and one of the best, at 9 p.m. ET: 1939’s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.