1950s Movies

Inspired by real events, combat surgeon Sergio Passaro is deployed to a remote UN position in North Korea in November 1950, He finds himself at the...

During the 1950s, a Greek concert pianist meets the love of her life in Trieste, Italy. After they marry, she follows him to the United States --...

In the late 1940s, a weary assassin known as the Nighthawk sits alone in a late-night diner, awaiting his inevitable end. Three distinct figures from...

Based on the hit 1951 jingle, this stop-motion animated short briefly follows the titular Suzy Snowflake as she brings joyful snowfall with her,...

Ms. Byzantiou is a passionate writer who stays at the hotel “Paradise” together with other eccentric tenants. When the friend of a hotel...

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...

To locate the heir of $500,000, an affluent Greek-American places an announcement in the newspaper, and hundreds of potential plutocrats start...

In 1952, TV Tupi, Brazil's first television channel, invited psychiatrist Júlio Gouveia and his wife, Russian writer Tatiana Belinky, to...

A successful writer faces the pressures of finishing her latest novel all while the main character she has written hunts her down, demanding an...

September 1954. A wave of UFO sightings sweeps over France. In America, a propaganda of a Soviet invasion is spread around. In a Québec...

In love with the village's belle, a passionate nineteen-year-old suitor from Volos and his two friends kidnap her in broad daylight; however, the...

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

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

Released in 1953.

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...

Demonstration of shoplifting methods. With the Cooperation and Assistance of Berkeley, California Police Department and Berkeley Police Reserve;...

Recounts the so-called 'Battle of Inchon', an episode at the end of World War II during the amphibious invasion of Korea, resulting in a decisive...

An organ grinder (Orestis Makris) loses his wife from complications during birth. Distraught by her death, he refuses to take care of the baby and...