1950s Movies

Documentary about how the arrival of the railway industry impacted Puerto Rican culture economically, socially, and humanistically during the first...

An atypical portrait of singer, songwriter, poet Georges Brassens.

A promotional short for the feature film "Roach Motel". The short film "Modern Living and You!" satirizes "Red Scare" era instructional shorts, while...

The city of Madrid as it appears in the Spanish films of the 1950s. A small tribute to all those who filmed and portrayed Madrid despite the...

Emmett Till was brutally killed in the summer of 1955. At his funeral, his mother forced the world to reckon with the brutality of American racism. ...

Ethan is in love with the weird girl in school. The one with the twitchy eyes and spiders in her hair. The one who can't sit still for even a minute...

In the 1960s, the suburbs were meant to be modern havens for newcomers from rural France, Portugal, Spain, North Africa, and Africa, helping rebuild...

A retrospective of the classic game show, What's My Line, in which a four-member celebrity panel attempted to identify a contestant's occupation...

Della, a neglected housewife, enters a mysterious antique shop seeking a simple gift for her husband, Jim. Encountering a cryptic shopkeeper, she...

George finished his studies and returned to Greece and his father, Anthony Delistavrou, assigned to the plant in order himself to live his life. He...

Depicts the factual accounts of Vincenzo Di Francesca and Parley P. Pratt and how they came to appreciate the contents of the Book of Mormon.

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...

The film is about suburban families, trying to be perfect housewives, and their theories in what is the right way of treating and accepting husbands...

Tells the inspiring and humorous tale of Håkansson, who at age 65, defied race officials who barred him from competing in the inaugural...

One of the strangest ET encounters in history happened in WA State in 1950.... learn the story of Samuel Eaton Thompson and the strange naked beings...

A moving comedy-drama about the love, identity and courage of the LGBTQ community during the first walk towards Gay Pride in 1950s England. Based on...

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 depressed wife and mother whose reality is starting to fracture into fantasy, drives her children to the beach. On the return journey she stops at...

A biopic about star Elza Soares, considered one of the greatest samba singers ever and a symbol of the struggle against racism and women...

Mento was the first national music of Jamaica and it begat Ska, Rocksteady, Reggae and the Dancehall music of today. No film has been made wholly...