Born Norma Jean Baker, actress Marilyn Monroe would become one of the most iconic and desirable women in the world. From her humble beginnings, to her USO performances, to her now-famous pin-up photographs and award-winning acting roles, Marilyn made her mark as the most beautiful blonde bombshell of her day. However, behind her beauty, Marilyn suffered a tragic private life.

Stop-motion animation on the arranging of marriages in 1950/60s set in the Eastern-Polish borderland...

The film looks at men and women of color in the U.S. Merchant Marine from 1938-1975. Through chronic...

A roller-coaster ride through the history of American exploitation films, ranging from Roger Corman'...

The Living Sea celebrates the beauty and power of the ocean as it explores our relationship with thi...
Germán Cipriano Gómez Valdés Castillo, a young radio announcer from Cuidad Juárez, succeeds in drawi...

In the movies since he was an infant, Chris Olsen appeared in films by some of the best directors of...
Emma Freese is desperate when her husband Alfred falls ill at the Howaldtswerke in Kiel. How is the ...

Charles de Gaulle, the first president (1958-1969) of the Vth Republic, France’s current system of g...

The story of the unconditional, no-holds-barred tour of America by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev,...

The career of French comic author René Goscinny was a living blend of cultures and an expression of ...

How in 1959, during the heat of the Cold War, the government of the United States decided to create ...

In 1952, TV Tupi, Brazil's first television channel, invited psychiatrist Júlio Gouveia and his wife...

A look at the 1950s muscle men's magazines and the representative industry which were popular suppos...

The history of how the Museum of Spanish Abstract Art of Cuenca was created. In the mid-1950s, the S...

A box found in an abandoned storage unit unearths a time capsule of correspondences from a forgotten...

Emmett Till was brutally killed in the summer of 1955. At his funeral, his mother forced the world t...