1950s Movies

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. ...

A 1956 Belgian film, Low Light and Blue Smoke, showcases the music of American blues guitarist Big Bill Broonzy, capturing his performance at the...

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...

The sea can be many things; provider of food and work, playmate or harbinger of death. Set in the 1950s in the fishing town of Nazare, the ocean...

A Prime Minister kidnaps three comedians from Paris to make a frowning princess smile for a royal photo, all while secretly dealing with a prisoner...

1959: Guy is an experienced British fighter pilot who is in command of Britain's first manned mission to space. He has trained for this for three...

Life in communist Czechoslovakia in the early 1950s and the punishments for going against the state.

The Comic Strip team return for a special 50s-style 'fugitive' film noir spoof. The 60-minute film, penned by Peter Richardson and Pete Richens,...

Charles de Gaulle, the first president (1958-1969) of the Vth Republic, France’s current system of government, left his mark on the country ....

Step back in time to the golden age of television with Honey, I’m Home!, a brand-new 1950s-style sitcom short film that’s all smiles,...

1957, New York. A Tibetan monk rents an automatic sequence computer. His goal is to list all of the names of God. Two Western engineers are hired to...

A young detective in 1950’s Los Angeles comes to terms with their identity while tracking down a serial killer targeting the city’s top...

A young man from a poor proletarian family successfully graduates from university, meets a girl who grew up in an orphanage - and surprises his...

The career of French comic author René Goscinny was a living blend of cultures and an expression of the great importance this artist attached...

Martin Scorsese is among those paying tribute to Gene Tierney, the Academy Award-nominated American actress who was a leading lady in Hollywood...

Two men and a woman in the deep south of the 1950s plot to kidnap a child from a wealthy black family, mistakenly believing that no one will try to...

Stop-motion animation on the arranging of marriages in 1950/60s set in the Eastern-Polish borderland. The script is based on a part of Mikołaj...

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

A documentary about 1950's Reunion island.

This dark comedy horror short is a twisted parody of 1950s how-to videos, with a cheerful yet sinister charm.