Movies: 1950s

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

“Marilyn vs. Marilyn” tells the story of a little-known period of Marilyn’s life – the years she spent in New York, trying to became a ‘serious”’ actress, taking lessons with Lee Strasberg and setting up a production company with her photographer and...

A desperate alien, last survivor of a once infamous race of galactic invaders, is lonely. Only accompanied by a warrior robot it discovers a new planet with pretty strange beings on it: Earth. Earth is under control of a global dictatorship by the wo...

A young boy in the 1950's sees a car for the first time. This brief moment turns out to be something not so easy to forget....

James and Linda struggle to take care of her nephew, and his grandma, but when they receive more bad news, their only solution is to retreat to a fantasy....

Set in the 1950s, the PLA exterminates residual bandits in the Yunwushan Mountain....

The history of how the Museum of Spanish Abstract Art of Cuenca was created. In the mid-1950s, the Spanish collector and painter Fernando Zóbel de Ayala (1924-84) becomes fascinated by the young generation of Spanish abstract artists, so he begins to...

A short about a conductor and his small-change cash....

The leader of an all-girl teenage greaser gang attempts to get the attention of her bookworm crush, but her usual tactics don’t seem to be working....

Four women meet at Dar Joued on the eve of Independence. With different ages and social conditions, they are condemned to live together under the authority and injustice of their jailer: "El Jaida". They will share memories of the outside world, joy,...

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Green Days by the River is one of the most best-loved works of Caribbean literature. Written by lauded Trinidadian author Michael Anthony in 1967, the book illuminates the formative years of a boy growing up on the island. This coming of age story ha...

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 median age of 82, are beset with a host of life-threatening illnesses, the movie tells how they nav...

A family reflects on what they are grateful for, even though they cannot afford a turkey for their Thanksgiving dinner....

One day a friend will betray you, and the enemy at the crucial moment will save lives....

Chapter 11 of the series 18 decades of life in Mexico in the twentieth century. Images of the cultural, social and political life in Mexico between 1950 and 1954 Narrates the period of the history of Mexico from 1950 to 1954, marked by capitalism an...

Based on the hit 1951 jingle, this stop-motion animated short briefly follows the titular Suzy Snowflake as she brings joyful snowfall with her, heralding people to play with her before the chance is gone....

A look at the daily lives of fishermen in East Bengal....