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2) Elvis
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Formats
Description
Elvis Presley rises to fame in the 1950s while maintaining a complex relationship with his manager, Colonel Tom Parker.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Formats
Description
Lionel Essrog is a lonely private detective afflicted with Tourette's Syndrome. He ventures through 1950s New York trying to solve his friend's murder. Armed only with a few clues and the powerful engine of his obsessive mind, Lionel unravels closely guarded secrets that hold the fate of the whole city in the balance.
4) Till
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Till is a profoundly emotional and cinematic film about the true story of Mamie Till Mobley's relentless pursuit of justice for her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till, who, in 1955, was lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi. In Mamie's poignant journey of grief turned to action, we see the universal power of a mother's ability to change the world.
5) Cry baby
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
A spoof and homage to 1950's teen rock melodramas. Cry Baby's a rebel with a gang of rough friends. Allison is the straight-laced girl who falls for him. Loaded with never-before-seen extras.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
In the final season, Sarah Nordmann finally marries wealthy landowner George Bligh. But as Sarah takes her place as lady of Ash Park, George's mother, Elizabeth, feels pushed out of the household. George's son, James, returns from abroad to start a business, while his daughter, Anna, lives in Hawaii with her sister-in-law, hiding a secret from the family. The Bligh's face tragedies, betrayals, and new beginnings that will challenge their relationships...
8) Fences
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
In 1950s Pittsburgh, a former Negro League baseball player struggles to provide for his family.
9) Grease
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Formats
Description
Musical concerning the romance between a teen-age gang-leader and his naive girlfriend, set in the 1950's (110 min.). Edition includes retrospective interviews with principal stars, director and producer (17 min.).
10) Till
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
In 1955, after Emmett Till is murdered in a brutal lynching, his mother vows to expose the racism behind the attack while working to have those involved brought to justice.
11) Fences
Author
Series
Description
The protagonist of Fences (part of Wilsons ten-part Pittsburgh Cycle plays), Troy Maxson, is a strong man, a hard man. He has had to be to survive. Troy Maxson has gone through life in an America where to be proud and black is to face pressures that could crush a man, body and soul. But the 1950s are yielding to the new spirit of liberation in the 1960s, a spirit that is changing the world Troy Maxson has learned to deal with the only way he can,...
12) Hail, Caesar!
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Formats
Description
An all-star comedy set during the latter years of Hollywood's Golden Age. It follows a single day in the life of a studio fixer who is presented with plenty of problems to fix.
16) Grease
Formats
Description
During their summer vacation, Danny Zuko and Sandy Olsson meet at a beach. Sandy enrolls at Rydell High School, where Danny is a student. Sandy's new friend Frenchy is a member of the schoolgirl clique 'The Pink Ladies.' Danny is the leader of the 'The T-Birds' gang. Kenickie is his second-in-command. Neither Danny or Sandy know they are attending the same school. The Pink Ladies decide to reunite Danny and Sandy, but Danny wants to protect his cool...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
It's 1957, and it's as if the world of Grantchester has returned to an idyllic state, a metaphorical Garden of Eden. Will believes that everyone can get close to their own Eden through good works and a proactive attitude. But as Geordie knows, every Eden has its snakes. Will's faith will be tested as he and Geordie are reminded that there's darkness lurking in their corner of Cambridgeshire.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Four outcast high school girls a brainiac student, a scandal-ridden cynic, a tomboy, and a fashion maven join together to form their own "girl gang" and trigger a rock-'n'-roll revolution at Rydell High. Of course, the adults are in a 1950s moral panic over the burgeoning new era, but the Pink Ladies are ready to get this party started.
19) Diner
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
Set in 1959, a band of long-time buddies since high school gather at a local diner to share their escapades and make sense of their lives. As one by one they drift off to join the mainstream of life they still cling to their shared boyhood dreams.
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Based on audaciously true events. In 1959 Bucharest, five high-ranking Jewish members of the Communist party staged a bank heist that baffled the repressive regime and left the public in an uproar. Their motives were never known. Having been captured, arrested, and sentenced to death, the unusual gang of so-called criminals is given one last punishment before facing the execution squad: reenact the heist for the benefit of a Communist propaganda film....
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