TV specials mark D-Day 60th anniversary

Tom Brokaw is host of the “Dateline” special “D-Day: A Leap Into History” (6 p.m. Sunday, NBC), one of several programs commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Normandy invasion. “Leap” features interviews with three members of the 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment, who discuss their harrowing descent into enemy gunfire, their lifelong friendships and their special bonds with the French villagers who greeted them as liberators. This two-hour “Dateline” will also feature an interview with President Bush.

  • Survivors’ stories also are the highlight of “D-Day: Reflections of Courage” (7 p.m. Sunday, Discovery). In addition to interviews with American veterans (one of whom was only 15 when he ferried soldiers ashore), there are conversations with British, French and German soldiers.
  • “D-Day: The Lost Evidence” (7 p.m. Sunday, History) presents a whole new perspective on the invasion. As soldiers stormed the beaches, Allied reconnaissance aircraft took more than 9,000 photos of the battle. “Lost” uses new digital technology to display, combine and zoom in on the many images to provide a minute-by-minute look at the fighting. The photos, many unseen for 60 years, demonstrate precisely where the Germans placed their defenses, the exact landing sites for the waves of allied paratroopers, and how the Omaha beach invasion deviated from its original plan.

Today’s other highlights

  • “The Directors” (10 a.m., Encore) profiles Anthony Minghella (“The English Patient” and “Cold Mountain”).
  • Jeffrey makes Rocco an offer that he may find hard to refuse on the season finale of “The Restaurant” (7 p.m., NBC).
  • Calgary and Tampa Bay face off in Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Finals (7 p.m., ABC).
  • An MSNBC reporter (Tea Leoni) breaks a story about an impending asteroid disaster in the grim 1998 drama “Deep Impact” (7:30 p.m., CBS).

Sunday’s other highlights

  • Scheduled on “60 Minutes” (6 p.m., CBS): an FBI agent admits some terrorist information may have been lost in translation; Yale’s Skull and Bones Society, whose members include both President Bush and Sen. John Kerry; unreliable fingerprint evidence.
  • Hugh Jackman is host of the 58th Annual Tony Awards (7 p.m., CBS).
  • A cute couple (Joey Lawrence and Maggie Lawson) discovers that their path to the altar is anything but smooth in the completely annoying 2004 TV romance “Love Rules!” (7 p.m., Family).
  • Singer and actress Bette Midler discusses her transformation from bathhouse torch singer to Disney star on “Inside the Actors Studio” (7 p.m., Bravo).
  • Anthony Michael Hall returns for season three of “Dead Zone” (9 p.m., USA).
  • Now it can be told on “101 Best Kept Hollywood Secrets” (9 p.m., E!).