The Big Parade (KCET Sunday at 4:35...

The Big Parade (KCET Sunday at 4:35 p.m.) Working from a story by Laurence Stallings, King Vidor in 1925 brought to the screen the first fully realized expression of what World War I meant to America--and a gallant salute to the end of innocence. John Gilbert stars as a rich, probably Midwestern, playboy caught up in patriotic fervor but confronted at last with the true horrors of war.

The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant (Bravo Monday at 8 p.m., Tuesday at 1 a.m.) R.W. Fassbinder’s 1972 film is a demanding, harrowing drama of agonized love laced with sardonic humor. In this work of the utmost simplicity and austerity, Margit Carstensen plays a top fashion designer caught up in a mutual seduction with a new employee (Hanna Schygulla).

Say Amen, Somebody (A&E; Tuesday at 6 p.m., again at 10 p.m.) George T. Nierenberg’s infectious 1982 documentary suggests that for African-American Christians, religion can be a joy rather than a duty, a fusion, rather than separation, of body and soul.