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

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

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

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

Genre: Romance

Cast: John Wayne

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

The arranged marriage between a capricious woman from Tokyo high society and a quiet and rustic man is tested by a marital crisis.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

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

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

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

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

When elderly pensioner Umberto Domenico Ferrari returns to his boarding house from a protest calling for a hike in old-age pensions, his landlady...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Carlo Battisti

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

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

A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Charlie Chaplin

Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kirk Douglas

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Barbara Stanwyck

Pluto comes bounding outside to help Mickey get a Christmas tree. Chip 'n Dale see him and make fun of him, but the tree they take refuge in is the...

Genre: Animation

Cast: James MacDonald

Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Cary Grant

A tough cop meets his match when he has to guard a gangster's widow on a tense train ride.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Charles McGraw

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

Genre: News

Cast:

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

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

Genre: Talk

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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

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

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

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

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

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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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

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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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

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

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

Biff Baker, U.S.A. is an American crime drama television series that aired on CBS from November 6, 1952, to March 26, 1953 starring Alan Hale, Jr. as...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alan Hale Jr.

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

Cowboy G-Men is an American Western series that aired in syndication from September 1952 to June 1953, for a total of thirty-nine episodes.

Genre: Western

Cast: Jackie Coogan

Craig Kennedy is a prominent scientist at a prestigious university. He uses his knowledge of chemistry plus newer devices such as lie detectors to...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Donald Woods

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