1956 Movies

Late on Christmas Day, a man coaxes an antiques shopkeeper to let him in under the pretense of needing a gift for his fiancée, but it is soon clear he...

Dashing and roguish French adventurer-poet Francois Villon learns of a plot to assassinate King Charles VII and gathers his followers to stop the plot...

A married couple take in a nightclub show starring songwriter Jimmy McHugh and are prompted by his melodies to relive their past.

On a rubber plantation in Sumatra, a woman of mixed Dutch and Indonesian parentage must choose between her people and the doctor she loves.

Rather than allow his law partner to marry the woman he loves, a man fakes his own murder in 1870s Missouri and frames his partner for the supposed cr...

A famous singer discovers a newsboy with vocal talent, but he would rather play baseball than develop his singing skills. She'd like to persuade his p...

Walt looks at the history of Joel Chandler Harris, author of the Uncle Remus stories.

Walt Disney looks at a typical day in Pluto's life.

This episode follows the events of Donald Duck as he struggles through a typical day at the Disney Studio. Along the way, he meets Jimmie Dodd, Roy Wi...

Explaining the outset that the concept of athletic training was born of necessity, Goofy scans a scrapbook of his escapades in boxing, swimming, golfi...

Walt introduces the narrator, Spyrus Olympopolus, to demonstrate how the ancient sports practiced in foreign countries have evolved into the games of...

A dying woman confesses to her younger sister, she sought revenge by poisoning her sister's husband because she was jealous and wanted him to marry he...

A young man in love suffers the unspeakable because of a seemingly guilty woman.

A young boy uses his ESP to control a robot created by his wheel chair bound Uncle, and together they combat the forces of evil.

Explains the history of playing cards, which designs exist in which countries and how the design of the cards has changed.

Joseph Cornell shot footage on Mulberry Street with Rudolph Burckhardt and made this silent film. Burckhardt would make his own sound version, "What M...

A film of a royal visit to Aberdeen, Scotland in 1906. Comprises footage re-edited from the earlier silent film "Aberdeen University Quarter Centenary...

A class of thirteen-year-old danglers persuades the school administration to start speaking proper civilised Dutch. This takes place at a boarding sch...