Cinematic Era: 1951 Vintage

Polish composer Stanisław Moniuszko fights for the right to stage his opera "Halka".

This film was cobbled together from Japanese newsreels and propaganda films, to boost home-front morale, filmed during World War Two.

Babla, a young boy who is forced to grow up too quickly when tragedy strikes his poor family, leading him into the harsh world of Calcutta as a newspaper hawker who must rely on his fierce integrity to survive.

Yusuf's efforts to approach Erna (Netty Herawati) were thwarted by the girl's father's harshness, because the young man was still unemployed. On the advice of Kosasih (Rd. Mochtar), a fake marriage was held between Erna and another young man. Because no one was available, Kosasih finally carried out the fake marriage himself. Even though Kosasih already had a girlfriend, Komariah (Titien Sumarni), who Sutisna (Darussalam) also had a crush on. In the end, "playing around became real".

The bank is located in the square of a small, idyllic market town, and its manager, Anders B. Schmidt, is seriously ill in the town hospital. At the beginning of the story, he is quietly passing away. In the wealthy neighborhood of the market town, we find the bank manager's villa, which has been his pride and joy for many years. He leaves behind a deeply grieving widow and four adult children. It soon emerges that the respected citizen had a love affair before he got married, and this causes outrage.

The young Uguccione is mistaken for Rascelito Villa called "C6", a dangerous revolutionary, and then immediately sent to Parazuela where he leads the insurrectionist troops.

A young man believes that an old, supposedly haunted ruin holds clues to both his father’s disappearance and a twelve year old murder mystery.

This comedy short subject satirizes the Hollywood genre which the French had given the name to of Film Noir.

Partisans resist the terror of Italian fascists and Serbian Chetniks in the South-East of Bosnia and Herzegovina during WWII.

In the Swiss Alps, Mighty Mouse (aided by a dopey St. Bernard) must save the lovely Pearl Pureheart from the clutches of the dastardly Oil Can Harry. The villain has tied up Pearl and left her hanging from a mountain cliff. The St. Bernard tries to save everybody with brandy, but Mighty Mouse saves the day!

Set in post war Japan, the film tells the tale of a woman looking for her missing brother. Her brother operated a small export business and has suddenly disappeared. Strangely his business partner has also vanished.

Hong Kong horror movie from 1951.

This black & white educational driver safety film is about how to drive on America's new, post-war highways / freeways and on multi lane roads.

In 1850s Mexico, the beautiful owner of a silver mine is kidnapped by a bandit leader, who needs money to finance his revolt against the Emperor Maximilian.

Popeye's been feeding a turkey in his backyard; it's Thanksgiving day, and his (3) nephews are all set to turn the turkey into the main course. But Popeye can't bring himself to do the deed, so he tells them a story about the time he was a pilgrim and a turkey saved his life. Popeye is hunting the turkey, which keeps outsmarting him; he finally corners the bird, which gives him a sob story about being too scrawny to eat. Popeye gives him some spinach, but before the bird can eat it, Popeye is captured by Indians. They tie him to a stake. The turkey, watching, remembers the spinach, which turns the turkey into an eagle. He swoops down, carries off the first batch of Indians and throws them into a mountain; he turns another batch into a totem pole. Popeye finishes his story and sees the boys missing; dinner time! They prepare to serve the turkey his big plate of spinach.

Bayaya, a young peasant, protected by the spirit of his dead mother, arrives at the castle of the King, where he entertains his three daughters. He soon realizes that the three princesses are nagged by evil spirits. The little peasant manages to rid them of them, fights a duel with a wicked lord who wanted to marry one of the three princesses. He finally wins the heart of the youngest sister while saving the soul of his mother who was in purgatory.

An account of the first expedition to the Queen Maud Land region of Antarctica.

A woman marries a gambler, thinking she could straighten him up, but he loses all their assets, even their own house, and tries to commit suicide. But one of the winners falls for his stepdaughter, and this could change the situation.

Radio personality Eamonn Andrews shows a group of young female volunteers around the attractions of the Festival Of Britain.

Decent, hard-working young woman gradually finds her way toward love and happiness. With occasional spasms of Afro-Cuban dancing.

A dog and a cat will bake a big cake. What do they put in that cake? How will it be baked? How will he decorate it? Come and watch a great cooking adventure with us...

"Wahiba - Queen of the Gypsies" - dancing, music, exoticism and forbidden pleasures.

Negro Es Mi Color (literally translates to "Black Is My Color"), the 1951 Tito Davison Mexican racial musical melodrama (about a light-skinned Mexican woman with dark-skinned parents who passes as "white"; a Mexican version of "Imitation of Life")

A man feels abandoned because his wife is too busy with her incredible success as a lawyer. Because of this, he ends up falling into infidelity and showing certain contradictions in his wife.

To escape an arranged marriage, a dreamer flees to Bombay, only to become obsessed with a lifelike statue of a beautiful woman that magically comes alive, leading everyone—including the law—to believe he has gone completely mad.

A documentary featuring musicians including Artur Rubinstein, Jan Peerce-Nadine Conner, and Jascha Heifetz.

The story of the great strike of the workers building the Cervena Skala - Mergecany railway line

A young woman, Maya, is treated in a mountain hotel, where her husband joins her every Saturday. She falls in love with an attractive lawyer, who has come to this hotel in Savoie to successfully climb the Aiguille Rouge. The lawyer rejects Maya at first, but ends up becoming her lover and promises to run away with her... once the Aiguille Rouge has been climbed. But a storm breaks out during the ascent, and the lawyer dies, struck down.

Newlyweds struggle with career issues and poverty.

A Terrytoons cartoon with Half Pint the elephant.

In 1951, the 3rd French expedition to the Himalayas set out to conquer Nanda Devi (7,800 m). The attempt to cross the ridge between the main peak and Nanda Devi East resulted in the death of two members of the expedition. Expedition leader Roger Duplat and Gilbert Vignes disappear on the ridge somewhere below the main peak. Tenzing Norgay is part of a support team on this expedition; he and Louis Dubost climb Nanda Devi Est in search of the two missing people. A few years later, Tenzing discovered that Nanda Devi was the most difficult climb he had ever made.

After divorcing her cheating husband, a newly single still and beautiful woman, (played by Actress Rosa Carmina), travels to Acapulco. She soon becomes the center of attention and spoiled for choice when she finds herself wooed by no less than four handsome suitors, three of whom are very wealthy and prominent men. Initially torn between her head and her heart, but mindful of past mistakes, Carmina's character chooses love over money and picks a humble and hard-working waiter. Directed by Juan Orol, (Carmina's soon-to-be ex-husband in real-life), this drama features the long, drawn-out scenes and shadowy film noir techniques which he became well- known for.

Two brothers fall in love with the same girl, but the girl loves younger brother creating an intriguing love triangle.

An exasperated husband reaches his breaking point when he can no longer tolerate his wife's relentless nagging. Seeking a peaceful escape, he hits the road to go on a hobo adventure with his traveling companion.

Eager young radio reporter Teräsvuori stages a one-man burglary into the Helsinki Art Museum, recorded on tape for a later broadcast by his friend Laakso. Things go awry when a gang of real criminals overhear their plans and book their heist to coincide. Teräsvuori gets caught but escapes from police custody to start his private investigations together with female radio colleague Eila.

The North Bohemian town of Chudoplesy in the middle of the 19th century: the only local industry is the domestic production of reed goods. The poor reeders organize a revolt against the exploitative factors.

Widow Florentine adopted three children. They fear for the love of their new mother when she falls in love with the architect Curt May. With united strength they want to drive him out of the house.

Rain rituals with possession dances among the Songhay and Zarma of Simiri, Zermaganda, Niger. Dry Season: The village of Simiri; water carriers, the rainbow tree. Possession of the faithful making their way to the spirits' hut on the seventh day of the seventh month of the dry season. All of the inhabitants of the village go to the spirits' hut to celebrate the Yenendi, the festival of the rain. Preparation by the musicians: under the shelter, gourd drummers. The chief of the village, old Wadi Sorko, prepares his violin. Dance of the "spirit" horse (possession dance).

Erik Dahl escapes from prison where he is serving a sentence for smuggling. He seeks out his family, but the police have already been there, and he will have to flee. Erik alters their appearance and start a new life as fishmonger in a small town, but he plans to leave the country...

The fifth edition of "Terras fönster" reporting from Oslo 900 years. Two episodes with Povel Ramel that sings and spits together with Martin Ljung and Brita Borg. Miss Sweden 1951, Anita Ekberg, visits Stockholm, inaugurates Children's Day in Humlegården. Art, the sculptor Einar Luter card in his studio, and fashion. Report from the factory community Harg in Nyköping municipality, with Lars Johansson, who played a guard post in Nyköping's guest ban, and his wife Marianne. Musical cavalcade with Povel Ramel, Brita Borg and Martin Ljung.

An unexpected encounter between an estranged father with his former family that he had left for another woman.

A young man's fight between love and the monastic discipline.

Tin Tan just won the lottery and wants to donate it to an orphanage. Sataela and Riverita want to keep the money for themselves. In an attenpt to do so, they convince him of having a terminal disease and suggest that committing suicide is his best option.

The eternal saga unfolds as Goddess Lakshmi and Lord Narayan descend to Earth in various avatars to restore cosmic balance, illustrating that true wealth is found not in gold, but in righteous action and devotion.

Follows a young boy's adventures at the Festival of Britain, after he acquires one of the free passes sent out attached to a balloon.

After the patriarch's selfless death, his joint family shatters as his greedy sons refuse to provide a dowry for their sister's wedding, forcing an honest neighbor to secretly arrange the marriage, only for the event to end in a tragic accident that shocks the relatives back to unity.

Rich woman manouevres in secret to restore her dead father's good reputation.

This concert features virtuoso violinist Yehudi Menuhin (1916-1999) at the Charlie Chaplin Studios in 1947. Together with various artists he performed classical and romantic works of famous composers such as Beethoven, Wieniawski, Bach, Paganini and others. Yehudi Menuhin in Concert Magic is the very first concert film produced by and for Hollywood. This concert was premiered at the Stage Door Cinema in San Francisco for movie audiences. Yehudi Menuhin was at the age of 32 and was at the pinnacle of his fame.

A man comes to a village to marry a girl, but upon meeting the bride's sister, he falls in love with her.

Da Xiang, a girl whose father died early, was deceived and sold to a brothel, and her desperate mother chose to commit suicide. Now a prostitute, she faces a tortuous life.

Irresponsible father talks a lot and endangers the safety of his family because of it.

Roy is put in charge of a highway construction project. A rancher tries to stop Roy from putting a highway across his land because he fears that the authorities are going to discover the unscrupulous manner in which he got it.

An unhappy wife who has had a child by her lover lives a daily drama under the watchful eye of her husband who hates them both.

A woman is dying in her apartment. Two friends visit her and she tells them she wants to go to Chinatown. They convince her not to go, and then leave themselves. Unable to stand her confinement, the woman dies.

Young man convinces his conservative uncle that trendy modern stuff is fun.