Best-bets for June 6: D-Day memories; sports moments

1) Band of Brothers,” 9 a.m. to 11:19 p.m., Sundance. On the anniversary of the D-Day invasion, we can re-see a superb mini-series (shown here) about an Airborne company that was there. The first episode involves training, but the second (at 10:41 a.m.) sees men parachute behind enemy lines on June 6, 1944. The story continues through the end of the war and beyond. Read more…

1) Band of Brothers,” 9 a.m. to 11:19 p.m., Sundance. On the anniversary of the D-Day invasion, we can re-see a superb mini-series (shown here) about an Airborne company that was there. The first episode involves training, but the second (at 10:41 a.m.) sees men parachute behind enemy lines on June 6, 1944. The story continues through the end of the war and beyond.

2) More military films. The History Channel debuts “D-Day: The Unheard Tapes” from noon to 4 p.m. It also reruns the start of its “World War II” documentary (produced and hosted by Tom Hanks, who also produced “Band of Brothers”) from 7 p.m. to midnight; this part covers time prior to D-Day.

3) Hockey, 8 p.m. ET, ABC. For the third game of the best-of-seven series, things move from Carolina to Las Vegas. That’s on a night that also has women’s golf (NBC) and basketball (Indiana-New York, 8 p.m., CBS), plus tbaseball — at 7:15 p.m. on Fox and “Banana Ball” at 7:30 on CW.

4) “Wild Spring,” 8 p.m., BBC America, rerunning at 11:40. After a full day of reruns from the gorgeous “Planet Earth” series, the channel launches this new series. It begins with the animal world waking from winter slumbers.

5) “Inside Out” (2015), 3:35 p.m., Freeform. This gem is surrounded by a day of pleasant-enough animated films. That includes “The Princess and the Frog” at 5:40 p.m., “Tangled” at 7:45 and “Wish” at 9:50.

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