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

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

In Edo Period Japan, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of her inexorable fall.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

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

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

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

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

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

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Stewart Granger

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

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

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

Young Robin Hood, in love with Maid Marian, enters an archery contest with his father at the King's palace. On the way home his father is murdered by...

Genre: Action

Cast: Richard Todd

A young boy trades the family cow for magic beans. Ascending the beanstalk with the butcher who sold him the beans, he faces the giant terrorizing...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bud Abbott

Yoshitsune Minamoto, disguised with his retinue as monks, must make do with a comical porter as their guide through hostile territory en route to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

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

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

Gerard, a 25-year-old student, decides to find a treasure Troilus lost in the sea after the Peloponnesian War. His meeting with Manina jeopardises...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Brigitte Bardot

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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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

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

Cast: Alistair Cooke

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

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

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

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

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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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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30 minute anthology seriies

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Cast: Charles Bronson

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

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

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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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

Sky King is an American radio and television adventure series. The title character is Arizona rancher and aircraft pilot Schuyler "Sky" King. The...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kirby Grant

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

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