1956 Movies

The film focuses on a mother (Chen Yanyan) burdened by guilt after abandoning her newborn daughter in a long lane 17 years earlier, so that she could...

Documentary short about the Chicago landmark building where thousands of products are displayed for buyers, wholesalers, and tourists.

Short film by Hilary Harris.

Children Who Draw explores the delicate chemistry of school children interacting in an art class through a constant juxtaposition of observational bla...

Famed explorer Lewis Cotlow leads a hunting and archaeological expedition into Africa.

A one-hour variety show performed live at Harlem’s Apollo Theater, featuring a who’s-who of vocal and big band jazz and comedy acts of the 1950s.

An enterprising family make the most of, not one, but eight seaside beaches dotted around the north of England, all in one summer.

An old Bedouin tells the story of the twenty-three year old Prince Abdul Aziz ibn Saud’s daring raid on Riyadh to geologists exploring the deserts of...

Prince Kim Chu, last prince of the Silla Kingdom, falls in love with an enemy princess. Because this is not allowed, he must renounce his heredity and...

The border must be guarded against insidious intruders, of that the brave border guard has no doubt. He takes in a shot dog, gains its trust, and even...

After the death of his Russian mother, nine-year-old orphan Peter lives with Professor Hartmann and his daughter Helga, who cares for him like a mothe...

Karl, Katrinchen and Spatz are visiting their grandmother every christmas. The small village is covered up by snow and so the three kids build a snowm...

Voted for in Sight & Sound's 2022 Greatest Films of All Time poll

Visualizes traffic problems and cites statistics concerning these problems. Suggests three major considerations in the reduction of traffic problems:...

A German Film Award winning short feature.

As Nazi troops prepare to occupy the already truncated Czechoslovak Republic, a small military garrison made up of communists defies orders to abandon...

On the Eve of WW2, the royal government of Yugoslavia hid the national money inside the cave around village of Ozrinići in Montenegro. The locals disc...

On the eve of the 1905 revolution in a Ukrainian village, a liberal landowner refuses to distribute land to peasants, leading to an uprising. To prote...