Roger Spottiswoode’s high-style 1990 black comedy Air...

Roger Spottiswoode’s high-style 1990 black comedy Air America (KTLA Tuesday at 8 p.m.) is about the covert CIA airlift operation in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. It’s often intoxicating in its combination of surreal junglescapes and “MASH”-style pranks, but the script finds its focus too late. Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr. star.

FX2 (KTLA Thursday at 8 p.m. and Saturday at 6 p.m.), a witty, lively 1991 sequel that’s just as much fun as the 1986 original, thanks largely to Brian Dennehy’s gruff ex-cop now getting equal screen time with Bryan Brown’s laid-back movie special effects expert. As before, they’re up to their ears in danger and adventure.

Glory (KTLA Friday at 7:30 p.m.) is a stirring 1989 Civil War epic made fresh by its focus on the often overlooked and decisive role blacks played in winning the war for the North, yet once again a black struggle is told from the perspective of a noble white man. With Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Oscar-winner as Best Supporting Actor, Morgan Freeman and Andre Braugher.

The Human Shield (KCOP Friday at 8 p.m.) is a lively if improbable 1992 action adventure set against the Persian Gulf War in which a former American Marine instructor (Michael Dudikoff), banished from Iraq in 1985 over his protest of the treatment of Kurds, must now return to rescue his kidnaped brother.

In Jeremiah Johnson (KCOP Saturday at 6 p.m.) Robert Redford plays a legendary mountain man in this ruggedly beautiful 1972 film. He’s driven to discover whether any man can totally slip the tethers of human commitment and define himself in a solitary contest with nature at its grandest and most formidable.

The Grass Is Greener (KCET Saturday at 11:40 p.m.), Stanley Donen’s 1960 romantic drawing room comedy, stars Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum and Jean Simmons.