1950s Movies

The film looks at men and women of color in the U.S. Merchant Marine from 1938-1975. Through chronicling the lives of these men and women who, with a...

British cinema's original sex symbol, Diana Dors, left her £2 million fortune in various bank accounts, their details and locations revealed by...

Stockholm 1956. The Swedish botanist, candidate and lieutenant Nils von Ekelöw, presents his research to a panel of professors.

Based on the 1963 novel by Sylvia Plath, a young woman's summer in New York sees her working for a Mademoiselle-like magazine, return home to New...

Mr. Pye is a missionary whose mission to spread God's love on the tiny English Channel island of Sark faces supernatural setbacks in this comic...

The fifties, a Soviet space shuttle crashes in West Germany. The only passenger, a cosmonaut chimpanzee, spreads a deadly virus all over the country.

Miss Maud, an orphan, has grown up in a boarding house, raised by the conservative matron Mrs Frank. In her suppressed desires and love for Mr...

A look at the Mau Mau Rebellion of the 1950s as experienced by filmmaker Donald McWilliams.

In the 1950s, the Ween family live and work on land that was promised to their family. The landowners, the Appletree family, use the promise of the...

A sociopolitical historical documentary-thriller about the international decline of communism and the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

A chance encounter with seagulls sets a man's life on an unexpected path.

Kancha Sherpa was one of 103 Sherpas that brought Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay to the top of Mt. Everest in 1953, as the first to reach the...

Los Angeles teenager Ritchie Valens becomes an overnight rock 'n' roll success in 1958, thanks to a love ballad called "Donna" that he wrote for his...

A documentary showing a day in the life of a crofter boy, including going to school and playing shinty with his pals.

Dual timelines explore a Japanese widow's memories spanning post-war Nagasaki in 1950s and England during 1980s Cold War era, unraveling secrets that...

A series of programs designed for the adult layman who has a curiosity about the skies and the makeup of the universe in which we live. The terms...