Most Viewed Year 1952

In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gene Kelly

Sir Walter Scott's classic story of the chivalrous Ivanhoe who joins with Robin of Locksley in the fight against Prince John and for the return of...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Robert Taylor

Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has been freed, and will be arriving on the noon...

Genre: Western

Cast: Gary Cooper

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takashi Shimura

At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat captain is persuaded by a strong-willed...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Humphrey Bogart

Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Burt Lancaster

To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though this moves his girlfriend Holly from her hard-won...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Betty Hutton

An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.

Genre: Romance

Cast: John Wayne

The famous showdown at Kagiya corner has been told many times, but never before with the realism and intensity of this version scripted by Kurosawa...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Orphaned after a Nazi air raid, Paulette, a young Parisian girl, runs into Michel, an older peasant boy, and the two quickly become close. Together,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Brigitte Fossey

Film director Blasetti is looking for a little girl for his new movie. Along with other mothers, Maddelena takes her daughter to Cinecittà,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Anna Magnani

Born into aristocracy, Toulouse-Lautrec moves to Paris to pursue his art as he hangs out at the Moulin Rouge where he feels like he fits in being a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: José Ferrer

Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Gregory Peck

Two men with questionable pasts, Glyn McLyntock and his friend Cole, lead a wagon-train load of homesteaders from Missouri to the Oregon territory...

Genre: Western

Cast: James Stewart

In 18th-century France, a young man masquerades as an actor to avenge his friend's murder.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Stewart Granger

An embittered woman seeks escape in marriage, only to fall for her husband’s best friend.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Barbara Stanwyck

An ex-convict sets out to uncover who framed him for an armored car robbery.

Genre: Crime

Cast: John Payne

Disney Legend Sterling Holloway narrates this classic animated short. A mix-up by Mr. Stork finds a little lion cub in the care of a gentle flock of...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Sterling Holloway

The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppressive dictatorship of president Porfirio...

Genre: History

Cast: Marlon Brando

Fanfan is a young handsome peasant. He joins the army to escape marriage because a gypsy girl predicted he will get glory and the king's daughter as...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Gérard Philipe

German daily news program, the oldest still existing program on German television.

Genre: News

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Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer...

Genre: Drama

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This Is Your Life is an American television documentary series broadcast on NBC, originally hosted by its producer, Ralph Edwards from 1952 to 1961....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ralph Edwards

A panel tries to determine a contestant's secret: something that is unusual, amazing, embarrassing, or humorous about that person.

Genre: Reality

Cast: Steve Allen

Announcer: "The Adventures of Superman. Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings at a single...

Genre: Action & Adventure

Cast: George Reeves

This show started in New York City, with Broadway actors and actresses. It then moved to Hollywood, California, where Hollywood actors and actresses...

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A U.S. government agent travels the world on undercover missions in this 1950s series. Star Brian Donlevy originated the role on radio in the '40s.

Genre: Action & Adventure

Cast: Brian Donlevy

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet is an American sitcom, airing on ABC from October 3, 1952 through March 26, 1966, starring the real life Nelson...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ozzie Nelson

Omnibus is an American, commercially sponsored, educational television series.

Genre: Talk

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Guiding Light is an American television soap opera that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running television drama in...

Genre: Soap

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Bud and Lou are unemployed actors living in Mr. Fields’ boarding house. Lou’s girlfriend Hillary lives across the hall. Many situations...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bud Abbott

Mr. & Mrs. North is an American comedy/mystery television series that aired on CBS from October 3, 1952 to May 25, 1954. The series centers on Jerry...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Richard Denning

Cavalcade of America is an anthology drama series that was sponsored by the DuPont Company, although it occasionally presented a musical, such as an...

Genre: Drama

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Death Valley Days is an American radio and television anthology series featuring true stories of the old American West, particularly the Death Valley...

Genre: Western

Cast: Dale Robertson

Hopalong Cassidy was television's first western program. The series aired on NBC and stared William Boyd as the cowboy Hopalong Cassidy.

Genre: Western

Cast: Edgar Buchanan

China Smith was a 1950s television adventure series starring Dan Duryea. The television show takes place in Singapore. Much of the cast and crew also...

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Cast: Dan Duryea

My Little Margie is an American situation comedy starring Gale Storm and Charles Farrell that alternated between CBS and NBC from 1952 to 1955.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gale Storm

I Married Joan is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from 1952 to 1955. It starred veteran vaudeville, film, and radio comedienne-comedy actress...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joan Davis

Gang Busters is a 30 minute television series, hosted by Chester Morris, that aired on NBC from March 20 to Oct. 23, 1952. The series dramatized FBI...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Chester Morris

Today is a daily American morning television show that airs on NBC. The program debuted on January 14, 1952. It was the first of its genre on...

Genre: News

Cast: Al Roker