A scripted anthology series about oppression in America.
A three part series about women working in the British film industry during the 1950s.
Engineer and showman Professor Brendan Walker sets out to discover the ingenuity and life-changing technology behind the inventions that took drab, black and white post-war Britain and launched it, under its new young Queen Elizabeth 2nd, into a Technicolor-drenched world of the future.
Adaptación del libro de viajes del Premio Nobel español Camilo José Cela, 'Del Miño al Bidasoa'. La serie se centra en los avatares que acontecen a dos caminantes en su recorrido por la cornisa cantábrica, donde toman contacto con realidades íntimas de esta zona española. La acción se desarrolla hacia la mitad del siglo XX, en la España de posguerra y está rodada íntegramente en escenarios naturales.
Laura Arrieta es una mujer dispuesta a todo, quien llega desde provincia para abrirse paso en el mítico teatro de revista. Todo era perfecto, hasta que sorpresivamente se ve involucrada en un brutal asesinato.
The trials and tribulations of a fashion house in 1950s Chile.
A drama about the national resistance movement in Latvia after the Soviet occupation. Events take place in 1949 when the British intelligence service MI6 tries to find out about the situation in the Baltic States occupied by the Soviet Union. Wittold (Jekabs Reinis), together with other Latvians, works hard in his daily work, and Velta (Agnese Cirule) is a nurse. They dream of going to the United States, saving money, planning a wedding and arranging the necessary documents because the US carefully selects emigrants. But Wittold decides to take part in the Mission, and the hope of changing history changes his life.
A comedy about the 1950's. The general focus is put on the people and their habits that existed in the fifties...
The True Believers is a 1988 Australian mini series which looks at the history of the Australian Labor Party from the end of World War Two up to the Australian Labor Party split of 1955.
It was co-written by Bob Ellis who focused on three characters "Chifley, the unlettered man of great dignity; Menzies, who used to stand for something but eventually stood only for Menzies; and Evatt, the grand idealist... It's almost like Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1. It's a chunk of national history during Australia's great era of change after the war."
Archival footage and interviews with historians mark this fascinating documentary on the 1950s, based on David Halberstam's bestseller. Among the subjects covered: work and the family; the impact of TV; the Cold War; and the beginnings of the civil-rights movement and the sexual revolution.
The Adventures of Paddy the Pelican is an animated miniseries that first aired on ABC (US) in 1950. The show is notorious for a variety of factors including its unprofessional voice acting, simplistic animation, and inconsistent appearances of the title character.
A través del nacimiento del cine y de las primeras imágenes grabadas en España, la serie hace un recorrido desde finales del siglo XIX hasta los años setenta en 6 episodios de 1 hora cada uno. Un viaje exclusivo a la historia de España con imágenes asombrosas coloreadas por primera vez y sonorizadas de forma realista para realzar su viveza y espectacularidad. Una serie impactante a la vez que didáctica, con una narración viva y emotiva que ofrece al espectador una nueva forma de ver el pasado.
18 years old Engraçadinha starts a secret love affair with her cousin Sílvio, who's engaged to her best friend Letícia, who is secretly in love with Cutie Pie. Twenty years later, Cutie Pie is a deeply religious married woman who's afraid her teenage daughters might end up making the same mistakes she did in the past.
La llegada de Reynaldo Suárez (Mario Horton), el nuevo párroco de Villa Ruiseñor, generará más de un dolor de cabeza a Armando Quiroga (Álvaro Rudolphy), el hombre más rico y poderoso de la región del Maule, mientras en silencio las mujeres del pueblo comienzan a murmurar sobre los encantos y magnetismo del cura. Reynaldo llega a buscar venganza contra Quiroga por el supuesto suicidio de su hermana menor casi 20 años atrás, apoyado por su madre, la abortera del pueblo, Lidia (Carmen Disa Gutiérrez).
Por otro lado, está María Elsa (Mariana Di Girólamo) la hija y debilidad de Armando. Una niña ejemplar para los ojos del pueblo, pero que, al comenzar un romance con Camilo Corcuera (Etienne Bobenrieth), un joven de clase baja e hijo de Silvia Corcuera (Francisca Gavilán) una empleada doméstica, desafía una de las reglas más importantes del lugar: la separación entre las clases sociales de la época.
The biography of British 'Blonde Bombshell', Diana Dors.
Bordertown is a 1995 Australian TV miniseries. It takes place in a post World War II refugee camp in Australia.