Broken Blossoms (Channel 28 Sunday at 4...

Broken Blossoms (Channel 28 Sunday at 4 p.m.). Recently restored by Kevin Brownlow and David Gill, D.W. Griffith’s poetic, masterful 1919 heartbreaker will be introduced by its star, Lillian Gish, who plays a London waif adored by a young Chinese shopkeeper (Richard Barthelmess) but menaced by her sadistic father (Donald Crisp).

Distant Voices, Still Lives (Bravo Sunday at 5:30 p.m., again at 12:30 a.m.). Terence Davies’ mesmerizing 1989 film becomes its own kind of poetry: taut, reverential, inward, brilliant and unpredictable. Although it is set among the unremarkable flats of Liverpool, the place is stamped by Davies’ profoundly original vision and sounds; its framing is painterly and deliberate. The turf that Davies prowls so intimately is the Liverpool of the ‘40s and ‘50s, where he grew up, one of a terrified, loving family with an increasingly brutish father (Peter Postlethwaite) and a constant, desperate mother (Freda Dowie).

Pack of Lies (Cinemax Monday at 6 p.m., again on Friday at 7:30 a.m.) marks the American television debut of British star Alan Bates in a taut 1987 TV movie about a suburban London couple (Ellen Burstyn, Ronald Hines) who face a moral crisis when they allow a British Intelligence agent (Bates) to use their home to spy on their neighbors (Teri Garr, Daniel Benzali), who happen to be their best friends.