1956 Movies

A special episode of the Chronicle commemorating the death of Bolesław Bierut. He died in Moscow, March 13, 1956. The President of Poland, the Preside...

Intended for the general public, this film illustrates scenes from everyday life in Roman Africa.

The documentary promotes the outdoor attractions and folklore of the village of Szlebark, located in the Podhale Valley.

In this sequel to The Kid (1950),Bruce Lee's title character is played by Ding Yue and Fung Fung's character, Flying Dagger Lee, is played by Wong Ch...

A quarrel occurs between Sania (the first dancer in the band) and the band director, who decides to cancel the contract and give singer Zainab the cha...

An artistic short on the floral beauty of Puerto Rico set to folk music.

Hunters track a wild boar in the Sologne forests

A dramatization of the life of the Zulu leader, Shaka.

This documentary addresses some of the first cinematographically documented actions of Mexican indigenous politics in the mid-20th century. The narrat...

A bold attempt, full of visual sensibility, to use living animals, innocuous of their roles, as abstract counters in a tone poem of color and chiarosc...

A Czech art film set in a modern village. The main character of the film is Karla Tolarová, a worker from a Prague printing house, who arrives for a h...

A Princess is forbidden to see her childhood sweetheart and forced to marry an emperor.

An educational short featuring Jiminy Cricket.

A delightful trip back to an era in which railroad was king. The small community of Melville, Saskatchewan, is a railroad town. Long-time CBC host Fre...

A scientist is faced with a difficult decision. A man devoted to saving lives, he may be forced to kill in order to prevent a statewide livestock epid...

This RKO Sportscope series short presents two sportsmen fishing for striped bass.

An animated short of Igor Stravinsky's ballet Petroushka

Based on the book by Maud and Miska Petersham about the story of the baby elephant in the circus, showing the futile attempts of his mother to train h...