1950s Movies

The fifties in Cuba, at the time of the "dias felices", the happy days, the American mobsters were the kings of the country, Hemingway lived there,...

Between 1944 and 1953, 170,000 Estonians, Latvians, and Lithuanians put up fierce resistance to the Soviet invasion, hiding deep in the vast Baltic...

Naqab is a 1955 Indian Hindustani-language fantasy film directed by Lekhraj Bhakhri. It stars Shammi Kapoor, Madhubala, Ajit and the film revolves...

When the chances of winning the heart of a newslady are slimmed by a wealthy rival of his, a caring yet clumsy college professor creates a love...

In this musical comedy set to 1950's rock 'n' roll, three women are working in a burlesque club. They are more than content with their jobs but...

"Stolen Education" documents the untold story of Mexican-American school children who challenged discrimination in Texas schools in the 1950s and...

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

As a teenager in 1950 Brooklyn, all Saul wanted to do was hang out with his friends and go to the beach. Instead, he got roped into a dangerous new...

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

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

A documentary about 1950's Reunion island.

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...

Two lazy friends (Mimis Fotopoulos and Ntinos Iliopoulos) find a job as ice-cream vendors to pay their back rent. When they start giving ice-cream to...

Released in 1953.

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

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...