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By Jon Donnis
UK free-to-air genre channel LEGEND (Sky 148 / Virgin 149 / Freeview 41 / Freesat 137) has confirmed a packed schedule of channel premieres for June 2025, with a strong emphasis on award-winning Hollywood films, genre classics and cult British cinema. Leading the month is The Deer Hunter, Michael Cimino's five-time Oscar-winning Vietnam War drama starring Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken and Meryl Streep. The film airs on Saturday 28 June at 22:45 and is widely regarded as one of the most powerful American films of the 1970s.
KING ARTHUR (2004)
Also airing for the first time on LEGEND is John Huston's adaptation of Moby Dick (1956), with Gregory Peck in one of his most iconic roles, and William Friedkin's The Brink's Job (1979), a Boston-set true crime caper starring Peter Falk and Peter Boyle. Posse, the political western directed by and starring Kirk Douglas, closes out the month on Thursday 26 June.
Fans of genre fare can look forward to Virtuosity (1995), a tech-noir thriller featuring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe in a cyber-criminal cat-and-mouse chase set in near-future Los Angeles. Alien Nation (1988), which blends science fiction with hardboiled police drama, also gets a primetime slot. Action fans get Kickboxer: Retaliation (2018), starring Alain Moussi, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Mike Tyson, airing Thursday 5 June at 21:00.
VIRTUOSITY (1995)
British horror arrives with Deathwatch (2002), a WW1-set supernatural chiller starring Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis and Matthew Rhys. The film follows a lost squad of soldiers who discover something evil lurking in an abandoned trench. There's also 1968's Hammer fantasy The Vengeance of She, a mystical adventure involving reincarnation and an ancient queen, airing Wednesday 18 June.
Other highlights include Inside Out (2011), a lesser-seen WWE Studios crime drama starring Paul "Triple H" Levesque, Yangtse Incident (1957), based on the real-life Royal Navy stand-off with Chinese forces, and King Arthur (2004), the gritty historical reimagining with Clive Owen, Keira Knightley and Mads Mikkelsen.
LEGEND continues to deliver an eclectic mix of classic cinema, horror, war stories, cult gems and first-time showings across its network platforms. All films are free to air in the UK via Sky 148 / Virgin 149 / Freeview 41 / Freesat 137
