Turner Classic Movies Thumbs Nose At Trump With Full Day Of Anti-Fascist Films

The network aired Charlie Chaplin's "The Great Dictator," "Confessions of a Nazi Spy" and more the day after Trump's inauguration.

Turner Classic Movies, a vintage film channel, appeared to address Donald Trump’s return to the White House with some pointed post-inauguration counter-programming.

The cable channel filled its schedule Tuesday with back-to-back films featuring explicitly anti-fascist and anti-Nazi themes.

Seeming to send a message with its carefully picked movie marathon, TCM’s day began with 1937′s “Black Legion,” a Humphrey Bogart crime drama that warns of the specter of white supremacy.

That was followed by the World War II-era films “Confessions of a Nazi Spy” (1939) and “The Mortal Storm,” a 1940 Jimmy Stewart drama about Nazi Germany’s persecution of Jews.

Next up was Charlie Chaplin’s 1941 black comedy, “The Great Dictator,” an anti-fascist spoof that, along with his capitalism-critical movie “Modern Times,” was used as evidence of the silent film star’s communist sympathies during the Red Scare of the late 1940s and early ’50s.