1955 Movies

Jiminy Cricket explains how man resembles and differs from other animals, particularly the use of language, the use of reason, and opposable thumbs.

Warner Brothers looks back to the early days of talking pictures. Dwight Weist narrates film clips from five movies: "Sinner's Holiday," introducing J...

Philippe Perrin, a young engineer passionate about his work, leads the construction of a huge dam in the High Alps. Like all the men who work on the b...

Underwater exploration by oceanographers and geologists round the coast of Southern California and Mexico. Portrays many species and varieties of fish...

The employees of the furniture company MARS welcome a rare visitor with hired music. Their boast that they would put together an orchestra is taken se...

A woman rejects her father-approved groom, runs away, and falls in love with a petty thief/gambler.

The film begins with the forerunners of cinema and takes us through a review of film history in Norway and the history of Oslo’s cinemas. ***** Oslofi...

Swedish-Icelandic documentary film commissioned by Iceland's tourist board, which in magnificent color photography links the heritage from the fairy t...

A look at London's Soho in the mid-1950s.

A documentary about the sculptor Xawery Dunikowski, shot in his workshop. Director paid a tribute to the artist - a recluse without the artistic inhe...

After being stood up at the altar, a young heiress hires a burglar to pose as her husband to help her save face.

Michael Ward learns about bodybuilding from Britian's top muscle men and olympians.

Slovak movie is based on the novel by the prominent representative of Slovak prose František Hečka, who was in 1952 awarded the State Prize. The novel...

The fate of a German found by the French peasants - a deserter from the Legion of Foreign Affairs fighting in Vietnam.

When a woman finds out that her husband is being unfaithful to her, she decides to give him a dose of his own medicine, making him jealous with anothe...