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

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

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

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

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

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Stewart Granger

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

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

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

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 a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist mayor are always fighting to be the head of the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fernandel

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

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

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

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

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

Genre: Talk

Cast: Alistair Cooke

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

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

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

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

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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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

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

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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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

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

30 minute anthology seriies

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Cast: Charles Bronson

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

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.

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

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