Sherman’s March (Bravo Monday at 5 p.m.,...

Sherman’s March (Bravo Monday at 5 p.m., again at 10 p.m.) is an original and sneakily endearing 1986 documentary by Ross McElwee. It tells of how the Harvard-based documentary maker’s intended film on the lingering effects of Sherman’s calamitous march through the South turns into his own doggedly optimistic pursuit of love, once his girlfriend abandons him.

Painting the Town (Cinemax Wednesday at 8 p.m.): What makes Andrew Behar’s 1992 documentary so intriguing is that its portrait of a world-class party crasher, Manhattan artist-cum-cabbie Richard Osterweil, makes us ponder how blurred the line between craziness and eccentricity can be.

Man Facing Southeast (KCET Saturday at 9 p.m.), Argentine filmmaker Eliseo Subiela’s dazzling 1986 film, is a tragedy of faith and betrayal starring Hugo Soto as a young man claiming to be a data gatherer from outer space.

Rodrigo D: No Future (KCET Saturday at 11 p.m.), Colombian filmmaker Victor Gaviria’s rigorous 1990 film, is an uncompromising portrait of a poor Medellin teen-ager (Ramiro Meneses) and his friends, who are going nowhere fast.