Afterburn (Lifetime Tuesday at 4 p.m.), HBO’s...

Afterburn (Lifetime Tuesday at 4 p.m.), HBO’s crackling 1992 true-life drama, is a punchy, sure-fire expose drama. A stunning Laura Dern stars as an Air Force widow who refuses to accept her husband’s death as “pilot error.”

Good Morning, Babylon (KCET Saturday at 11 p.m.), the first English-language film for the Taviani brothers, spins a fictional tale of two Italian artisan brothers (Vincent Spano and Joaquin de Almeida) who create the elephants for the famous Babylon set in D.W. Griffith’s “Intolerance.”