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Cri de terreur
6.2

Cri de terreur

May 02, 1958
Jim a mis au point, en s'amusant, une bombe miniature qu'une bande de gangsters lui a volée, et l'utilise à des fins de chantage dans un avion. Pour neutraliser la famille de Jim, les gangsters les séquestrent. Comme la Compagnie d'aviation finit par accepter de payer la rançon, c'est Joan, sa femme qui est chargée de la remise.
Crime
The Bonnie Parker Story
4.6
In the 1930s, amoral blonde tommy-gun girl Bonnie Parker cut a swath of bodies across the South-West. Starting out on gas stations and bars with side-kick Guy Darrow she graduated to bank hold-ups with Darrow's brother and, after bloodily springing him, her jailed husband. But there was never any doubt who was in charge.
Crime
Flight for Freedom
5.2

Flight for Freedom

Apr 14, 1943
A fictionalized biopic about aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart. A female pilot breaks the Los Angeles to New York record and attracts the interest of the U.S. Navy, who want to send her on a spy mission.
Drama
I Cheated the Law
1

I Cheated the Law

Mar 04, 1949
An attorney (Tom Conway) learns he was duped into being his gangster murder client's (Steve Brodie) alibi.
Crime
The Decision to Drop the Bomb
6.7
J. Robert Oppenheimer and other key figures involved in the decision to drop the first atomic bomb discuss their motivations in this NBC News documentary. Originally produced and televised in 1965, two decades after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it was re-released in 2023 with an epilogue by Michael Beschloss, NBC News Presidential Historian.
Documentary
And Ten Thousand More
1

And Ten Thousand More

Jan 01, 1949
Student film sponsored by an urban housing authority advocating the financing of public housing. In the story a newspaper editor sends his reporter to investigate the low-income housing shortage in Los Angeles. Visiting slums in central L.A., the reporter finds decaying dwellings, some without plumbing and heating. The film contrasts them with the sturdy pre–World War II city housing projects that continue to provide a healthy environment for their residents. And Ten Thousand More takes its title from the number of new housing units reportedly required by L.A. residents. Note: The film was broadcast and screened at public meetings during the postwar public housing debate in L.A.
Mau-Mau
1

Mau-Mau

Jul 13, 1955
Newsman Chet Huntley narrates this documentary showing the rise of the African resistance movement known as the "Mau-Mau" against British rule in East Africa in the early 1950s.
Documentary
Mr. Lucky
6.9

Mr. Lucky

Jul 01, 1943
Joe Adams dirige un casino flottant dans les mers du Sud. Lorsque la guerre éclate, il endosse une fausse identité pour échapper au service militaire et se résout à travailler pour une oeuvre de charité chargée d'envoyer des secours en Europe. Son imagination fertile lui fournit un projet d'envergure : détourner les fonds de l'institution afin de financer un nouveau casino flottant. Sur ces entrefaites, Joe fait la connaissance de Dorothy Bryant, dont il tombe amoureux. Par ailleurs, il apprend que le défunt dont il a usurpé l'identité était un repris de justice en liberté conditionnelle et que le moindre écart de conduite peut l'amener tout droit à la chaise électrique...
Comedy
Disneyland Around the Seasons
7.1
Walt takes viewers on yet another tour of Disneyland to point out some of the newest additions to the park, including New Orleans Square, It's a Small World, and Great Moments With Mr. Lincoln.
Documentary
Day the World Ended
4.9

Day the World Ended

Dec 01, 1955
Le monde a été détruit par une guerre nucléaire. Tony Lamont et Ruby, pris dans une tempête de poussière, tentent d'atteindre le ranch, isolé, de Rick et Louise Maddison. Jim, le père de Louise, refuse de les laisser entrer car il n'y a assez de nourriture que pour trois personnes. Mais Tony s'introduit dans la maison. Devant le fait accompli, Jim finit par les accueillir. Il leur fait changer de vêtements et se laver à l'eau pure. Pendant ce temps, Rick a trouvé une victime des rayonnements, Radek, qui est très mal en point. Mais contre toute attente, Radek se remet très vite et montre un comportement anormal. Il ne semble pas manger mais se montre très en forme. Bien vite, il apparaît que Radek est un mutant, qui chasse pour sa survie et se nourrit de lapins crus. Il se montre même cannibale en dévorant un vieux prospecteur réfugié dans une mine.
Horror
The Big Street
5.8

The Big Street

Aug 13, 1942
Meek busboy Little Pinks is in love with an extremely selfish nightclub singer who despises and uses him.
Romance
Gloria: In Her Own Words
6.7
Despite decades of opposition from the right, and recent personal setbacks, Gloria Steinem remains one of the most outspoken and visible symbols of the women’s movement today. This film blends interviews of Steinem in her Manhattan apartment, archival footage, photographs from throughout her life and clips from press interviews over the years.
Documentary
Sit-In
1

Sit-In

Dec 20, 1960
SIT-IN (1960) is filmmaker Robert M. Young’ (Nothing But A aman, The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez) seminal documentary on how the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and Students of Fisk University desegregated the lunch counters in Nashville, TN.
Documentary
Vanished
5

Vanished

Mar 09, 1971
Government agencies investigate the mysterious disappearance of a powerful presidential adviser.
Drama
The Emmy Awards
7.5

The Emmy Awards

Sep 15, 2024
Cérémonie annuelle de remise des prix récompensant les meilleurs programmes télévisés américains diffusés aux heures de grande écoute, tels que choisis par l'Académie des arts et sciences de la télévision.
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
6.5
Tonight Starring Jack Paar is an American talk show hosted by Jack Paar under The Tonight Show franchise from 1957 to 1962. It originally aired during late-night. During most of its run it was broadcast from Studio 6B inside the RCA Building. The same studio would also host early episodes of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Its theme song was an instrumental version of "Everything's Coming Up Roses", and the closing theme was "So Until I See You" by Al Lerner.
Talk
Huntley-Brinkley Report
9.5
The Huntley-Brinkley Report was the NBC television network's flagship evening news program from October 29, 1956, until July 31, 1970. It was anchored by Chet Huntley in New York City, and David Brinkley in Washington, D.C. It succeeded the Camel News Caravan, anchored by John Cameron Swayze. The program ran for 15 minutes at its inception but expanded to 30 minutes on September 9, 1963, exactly a week after CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite did so. It was developed and produced initially by Reuven Frank. Frank left the program in 1962 to produce documentaries but returned to the program the following year when it expanded to 30 minutes. He was succeeded as executive producer in 1965 by Robert "Shad" Northshield and in 1969 by Wallace Westfeldt.
News
The Kraft Music Hall
1

The Kraft Music Hall

Jan 01, 1970
A few years after Perry Como left as host, "The Kraft Music Hall" was revived as a regular series from 1967-71. There was no set host during this period, and various guest hosts, usually a singer or comedian, presided on a weekly basis.
Comedy
Kraft Music Hall
4.4

Kraft Music Hall

Sep 01, 1971
Kraft Music Hall is an umbrella title for several television series aired by NBC in the United States from the 1950s to the 1970s in the musical variety genre, sponsored by Kraft Foods, the producers of a well-known line of cheeses and related dairy products. Their commercials were usually announced by "The Voice of Kraft", Ed Herlihy.