Encore generally airs older films released between the 1960s to the 1990s, with some newer movie titles (usually broadcast between six to nine months after their premiere on Starz) interspersed throughout the day (mostly on Sunday nights, as of the summer of 2014).
June 6, 1944 - Led by Eisenhower, over a million troops (the largest invasion force in history) stormed the beaches at Normandy and began the process of re-taking France. The turning point of World War II.
D-Day, 1944. The D-Day landings of June 6th 1944, and the ensuing battles that culminated in the defeat of the German armies in Normandy at the Battle of the Falaise Pocket on August 22nd 1944, led to the liberation first of Normandy, then France, and finally the defeat of Nazi Germany in May 1945.