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

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

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

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

Russian exiles in Paris plot to collect ten million pounds from the Bank of England by grooming a destitute, suicidal girl to pose as heir to the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ingrid Bergman

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

Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia including his disastrous 1812 invasion serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two...

Genre: War

Cast: Audrey Hepburn

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

Starship C57D travels to planet Altair 4 in search of the crew of spaceship "Bellerophon," a scientific expedition that has been missing for 20...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Walter Pidgeon

Widowed Welsh mother Anna Loenowens becomes a governess and English tutor to the wives and many children of the stubborn King Mongkut of Siam. Anna...

Genre: Music

Cast: Deborah Kerr

Mining engineer Shigeru investigates the disappearance and death of his fellow coworkers when prehistoric nymphs are discovered emerging from the...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Kenji Sahara

In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himself as a Buddhist monk to escape imprisonment as a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

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 humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan's most powerful clan leader....

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Edmond O'Brien

During an assignment, foreign correspondent Steve Martin spends a layover in Tokyo and is caught amid the rampage of an unstoppable prehistoric...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Raymond Burr

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

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

Juliette Hardy is sexual dynamite, and has the men of a French coastal town panting. But Antoine, the only man who affects her likewise, wouldn't...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Brigitte Bardot

A former sheriff relentlessly pursuing the 7 men who murdered his wife in Arizona crosses paths with a couple heading to California.

Genre: Western

Cast: Randolph Scott

The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The...

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

Genre: Reality

Cast: Petra Mede

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Steve Allen

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 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 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

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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

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

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: François Chalais

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

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

Genre: Family

Cast: Bobby Nicholson

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

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tony Hancock

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

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: George Brent

Colonel March of The Department of Queer Complaints investigates unusual cases, locked-room murders, and mysteries concerning the supernatural.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Boris Karloff

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

The Errol Flynn Theatre is a short-lived anthology series presented by Errol Flynn, who would also play the lead in every fourth show. His then-wife...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Errol Flynn