Most Viewed Year 1956

Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon discovery of his true heritage, Moses embarks on a personal...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charlton Heston

During an assignment, foreign correspondent Steve Martin spends a layover in Tokyo and is caught amid the rampage of an unstoppable prehistoric...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Raymond Burr

As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable.

Genre: Western

Cast: John Wayne

Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a beautiful young woman from Maryland who is new to Texas. She...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Elizabeth Taylor

In 1841, young Ishmael signs up for service aboard the Pequod, a whaler sailing out of New Bedford. The ship is under the command of Captain Ahab, a...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Gregory Peck

In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Edmond O'Brien

Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Sterling Hayden

Mining engineer Shigeru investigates the disappearance and death of his fellow coworkers when prehistoric nymphs are discovered emerging from the...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Kenji Sahara

In the early years of the World War II, the Royal Navy is fighting a desperate battle to keep the Atlantic convoy routes open to supply the British...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Gregson

Battle of the Bulge, World War II, 1944. Lieutenant Costa, an infantry company officer who must establish artillery observation posts in a strategic...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jack Palance

An engrossing spectacle set in the 4th-century BC, in which Alexander of Greece leads his troops forth, conquering all of the known world, in the...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Richard Burton

After a divorce with her childhood friend C.K. Dexter Haven, high society Tracy Lord is remarrying a shrewd social-climbing businessman. Meanwhile, a...

Genre: Music

Cast: Bing Crosby

Starship C57D travels to planet Altair 4 in search of the crew of spaceship "Bellerophon," a scientific expedition that has been missing for 20...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Walter Pidgeon

Mitch Wayne is a geologist working for the Hadleys, an oil-rich Texas family. While the patriarch, Jasper, works hard to establish the family...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rock Hudson

Paris, 1482. Today is the festival of the fools, taking place like each year in the square outside Cathedral Notre Dame. Among jugglers and other...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gina Lollobrigida

Prince Paris of Troy, shipwrecked on a mission to the king of Sparta, meets and falls for Queen Helen before he knows who she is. Rudely received by...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Rossana Podestà

Juliette Hardy is sexual dynamite, and has the men of a French coastal town panting. But Antoine, the only man who affects her likewise, wouldn't...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Brigitte Bardot

A young boy discovers a stray balloon, which seems to have a mind of its own, on the streets of Paris. The two become inseparable, yet the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Pascal Lamorisse

A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Kevin McCarthy

A couple vacationing in Morocco with their young son accidentally stumble upon an assassination plot. When the child is kidnapped to ensure their...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: James Stewart

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to...

Genre: Western

Cast: Dick Powell

The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The...

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The Adventures of Jim Bowie is an American Western television series that aired on ABC from 1956 to 1958. Its setting was the 1830s-era Louisiana...

Genre: Western

Cast: Scott Forbes

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show is an American variety series hosted by Dinah Shore, and broadcast on NBC from October 1956 to June 1963. The series was...

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Cast: Dinah Shore

Genre: Documentary

Cast: François Chalais

The Eurovision Song Contest is an international song competition, organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and featuring...

Genre: Reality

Cast: Petra Mede

State Trooper is an American crime drama set in the 1950s American West, starring Rod Cameron as Rod Blake, an officer of the Nevada Department of...

Genre: Action & Adventure

Cast: Rod Cameron

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Steve Allen

Telephone Time is an American anthology drama series that aired on CBS in 1956, and on ABC from 1957 to 1958. The series features plays by John...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Nesbitt

The adventures of privateer Captain Dan Tempest and his crew of former pirates as they make their way across the seven seas in The Sultana.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Shaw

The West Point Story is a dramatic anthology television series shown in the United States by Columbia Broadcasting System during the 1956-57 season...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Donald May

The Adventures of Sir Lancelot is a British television series first broadcast in 1956, produced by Sapphire Films for ITC Entertainment and screened...

Genre: Action & Adventure

Cast: William Russell

Colonel March of The Department of Queer Complaints investigates unusual cases, locked-room murders, and mysteries concerning the supernatural.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Boris Karloff

Hey, Jeannie! is an American situation comedy starring Jeannie Carson as a young Scottish woman living in New York City. Twenty-six episodes aired on...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jeannie Carson

Innovative "Claymation" adventures of Gumby and his horse Pokey.

Genre: Family

Cast: Bobby Nicholson

Hancock's Half Hour is a BBC radio comedy, and later television comedy, series of the 1950s and 60s written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tony Hancock

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Cast: Barry Sullivan

Playhouse 90 is an American television anthology series that was telecast on CBS from 1956 to 1960 for a total of 133 episodes. It originated from...

Genre: Drama

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Broken Arrow is a Western series which ran on ABC-TV in prime time from 1956 through 1958 on Tuesdays at 9 p.m. Eastern time. Repeat episodes were...

Genre: Western

Cast: Michael Ansara

Wire Service is an American drama series that aired on ABC as part of its 1956-57 season lineup.

Genre: Drama

Cast: George Brent