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1) Elvis
Pub. Date
[2022]
Formats
Summary
Elvis Presley rises to fame in the 1950s while maintaining a complex relationship with his manager, Colonel Tom Parker.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Summary
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....
4) Grease live!
Pub. Date
[2016]
Summary
A live one night musical production of the massively popular crossover musical! Featuring a young ensemble cast, this will reintroduce and reimagine some of the show's most memorable moments, great music, and timeless love story to an entirely new generation.
6) Till
Pub. Date
[2023]
Summary
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.
Pub. Date
2014
Summary
Based on the true love story of Elizabeth Bishop and Lota de Macedo Soares.This sumptuous English-language '50s period piece recounts the years of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Elizabeth Bishop when she left America to live and write in Rio de Janiero, where she would fall in love with well-off architect Lota de Macedo Soares.
Pub. Date
[2023]
Summary
Season Seven of Riverdale goes where no season has gone before, the 1950s. Jughead Jones is trapped in the past with no idea how he got there nor how to return to the present. His friends are no help, as they're unaware they've ever existed anywhere else. Will Jughead and the gang be trapped in the '50s forever? And if so, is that a bad thing?
Pub. Date
[2019]
Summary
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...
14) Till
Pub. Date
[2023]
Summary
Till is a profoundly emotional and cinematic film about the true story of Mamie Till Mobleyb2ss relentless pursuit of justice for her fourteen-year-old son, Emmett Till, who, in 1955, was lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi. In Mamieb2ss poignant journey of grief turned to action, we see the universal power of a motherb2ss ability to change the world.
15) Grease
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Summary
Musical concerning the romance between a teen-age gang-leader and his naive girlfriend, set in the 1950's.
16) Hail, Caesar!
Pub. Date
[2016]
Summary
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.