Winds of war
War heroes are saluted throughout the weekend on two movie channels. Among the highlights: "The Dirty Dozen" (7 p.m. Friday, AMC), "Patton" (1 a.m. Sunday, AMC), "The Hill" (1:30 p.m. Sunday, TCM) and "Sergeant York" (7 p.m. Sunday, TCM). Apparently, "Stripes" just missed the cut.
The boy in the bubble
Paul Simon travels back to South Africa for "Paul Simon's Graceland Journey: Under African Skies" (9 p.m. Friday, A&E), a documentary that revisits the artist's controversial decision in 1985 to tour that country despite a United Nations cultural boycott. It's also revealed that Simon was able to ditch Art Garfunkel by telling him they'd hook up in South Dakota.
Love on the rocks
"Tainted Love Weekend" (11 a.m. Saturday, Lifetime) is not a tribute to '80s band Soft Cell, but rather a collection of 16 movies in which Laura Prepon, Nancy McKeon, Crystal Bernard and others discover that relationships can get fairly rocky when your partner is a ruthless killer.
A Capitol event
Joe Mantegna and Gary Sinise take a break from fighting crime on CBS to host "The National Memorial Day Concert" (7 p.m. Sunday, KTCA, Ch. 2), with performances from Natalie Cole, Daughtry and Trace Adkins, plus an appearance from missing-in-action Dennis Franz.
