Most Viewed Year 1956

Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon discovery of his true heritage, Moses embarks on a personal...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charlton Heston

As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable.

Genre: Western

Cast: John Wayne

A couple vacationing in Morocco with their young son accidentally stumble upon an assassination plot. When the child is kidnapped to ensure their...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: James Stewart

Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Sterling Hayden

A young boy discovers a stray balloon, which seems to have a mind of its own, on the streets of Paris. The two become inseparable, yet the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Pascal Lamorisse

Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a beautiful young woman from Maryland who is new to Texas. She...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Elizabeth Taylor

In 1841, young Ishmael signs up for service aboard the Pequod, a whaler sailing out of New Bedford. The ship is under the command of Captain Ahab, a...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Gregory Peck

In Paris, Bob Montagne is practically synonymous with gambling -- and winning. He is kind, classy and well-liked by virtually everyone in town,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Roger Duchesne

Starship C57D travels to planet Altair 4 in search of the crew of spaceship "Bellerophon," a scientific expedition that has been missing for twenty...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Walter Pidgeon

Air Force Colonel Kenneth Penmark and his wife, Christine, adore their daughter Rhoda, despite her secret tendency for selfishness. Christine keeps...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Nancy Kelly

Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: David Niven

The story of boxer Rocky Graziano's rise from juvenile delinquent to world champ.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paul Newman

Paris, 1482. Today is the festival of the fools, taking place like each year in the square outside Cathedral Notre Dame. Among jugglers and other...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gina Lollobrigida

Jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by corrupt fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his current protégé, an unknown Argentinian...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Humphrey Bogart

With socialite Tracy Lord about to remarry, her ex-husband - with the help of a sympathetic reporter - has 48 hours to convince her that she really...

Genre: Music

Cast: Bing Crosby

Sissi is now the empress of Austria and attempts to learn etiquette. While she is busy being empress she also has to deal with her difficult new...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Romy Schneider

An engrossing spectacle set in the 4th-century BC, in which Alexander of Greece leads his troops forth, conquering all of the known world, in the...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Richard Burton

The lives of five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passage of an anti-prostitution law.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

The territorial governor asks the Lone Ranger to investigate mysterious raids on settlers by Indians who ride with saddles. Wealthy rancher Reese...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Clayton Moore

A young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chikage Awashima

The Eurovision Song Contest is an international song competition, organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and featuring...

Genre: Reality

Cast: Hazel Brugger

Hancock's Half Hour is a BBC television comedy series of the 1950s and 60s written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The series starred Tony Hancock...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tony Hancock

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Steve Allen

Innovative "Claymation" adventures of Gumby and his horse Pokey.

Genre: Family

Cast: Bobby Nicholson

Telephone Time is an American anthology drama series that aired on CBS in 1956, and on ABC from 1957 to 1958. The series features plays by John...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Nesbitt

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to...

Genre: Western

Cast: Dick Powell

The Gale Storm Show is an American sitcom starring Gale Storm. The series premiered on September 29, 1956, and ran until 1960 for 143 half-hour...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gale Storm

Broken Arrow is a Western series which ran on ABC-TV in prime time from 1956 through 1958 on Tuesdays at 9 p.m. Eastern time. Repeat episodes were...

Genre: Western

Cast: Michael Ansara

State Trooper is an American crime drama set in the 1950s American West, starring Rod Cameron as Rod Blake, an officer of the Nevada Department of...

Genre: Action & Adventure

Cast: Rod Cameron

Genre: Documentary

Cast: François Chalais

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show is an American variety series hosted by Dinah Shore, and broadcast on NBC from October 1956 to June 1963. The series was...

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Cast: Dinah Shore

The West Point Story is a dramatic anthology television series shown in the United States by Columbia Broadcasting System during the 1956-57 season...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Donald May

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Cast: Barry Sullivan

Wire Service is an American drama series that aired on ABC as part of its 1956-57 season lineup.

Genre: Drama

Cast: George Brent

A radio, and later television, talent show originally hosted by Hughie Green, with a late-1980s revival hosted by Bob Monkhouse, and later by...

Genre: Family

Cast: Hughie Green

The Adventures of Jim Bowie is an American Western television series that aired on ABC from 1956 to 1958. Its setting was the 1830s-era Louisiana...

Genre: Western

Cast: Scott Forbes

Playhouse 90 is an American television anthology series that was telecast on CBS from 1956 to 1960 for a total of 133 episodes. It originated from...

Genre: Drama

Cast:

Hey, Jeannie! is an American situation comedy starring Jeannie Carson as a young Scottish woman living in New York City. Twenty-six episodes aired on...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jeannie Carson

The adventures of privateer Captain Dan Tempest and his crew of former pirates as they make their way across the seven seas in The Sultana.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Shaw

Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers is a television series broadcast in the United States by NBC during its 1956-57 season. In a period in which much...

Genre: Action & Adventure

Cast: Philip Carey