The Fifties 1997

Documentary History

An in depth documentary of all aspects of life in the 1950s.

All Titles
  • CA: The Fifties The Fifties
  • US: The Fifties The Fifties
  • VE: Los años 50 Los años 50
Director
Alex Gibney
Susan Motamed
Artists
Edward Herrmann
as Narrator
David Halberstam
as Self
B.B. King
as Self
John Chancellor
as Self
Jane Stern
as Self - Author
Mickey Spillane
as Self - Author
Allen Ginsberg
as Self
Jules Feiffer
as Self - Cartoonist
Pete Hamill
as Self - Writer
Sam Phillips
as Self - Record Producer
as Self - Scientist
Dan Wakefield
as Self - Journalist
as Self - Filmmaker
as Self - US Foreign Service, Persecuted by McCarthy
Richard Rhodes
as Self
Robert Serber
as Self - Nuclear Physicist
Jack Anderson
as Self - Journalist
Sophie Morris
as Self
Kensinger Jones
as Self
Frank Gibney
as Self - Journalist
Philip Morris
as Self
Jess Uzwy
as Self
Eugene Burnett
as Self
Steve Buczak
as Self
Edward McCabe
as Self - Korean War Vet
Carlos Rodriguez
as Self - Korean War Vet
Kathleen Brindley
as Self
Bernice Burnett
as Self
George Reedy
as Self - Journalist
Cynthia Dale
as Grace Metalious
Fisher Stevens
as Jack Kerouac (Readings from On The Road)
Tracey Ullman
as Self
as unknown episodes
as Self - Blows Kiss
John Kenneth Galbraith
as Self
Sloan Wilson
as Self (author)
Alfred Leslie
as Self (painter, filmmaker)
Marilyn Monroe
as Self (with GIs in Korea)
Elvis Presley
as Self
Humphrey Bogart
as Self (concerned about HUAC)
Lauren Bacall
as Self (concerned about HUAC)
Elizabeth Taylor
as Self (marries)
Grace Kelly
as Self (weds Rainier)
Rita Hayworth
as Sadie Thompson
Elaine May
as Self (in Nichols & May sketch)
Carl Reiner
as Self (in RCA TV ad)
Mike Nichols
as Self (in Nichols & May sketch)
Danny Kaye
as Self (concerned about HUAC)
as Self (leaves plane)
Paul McCartney
as Self (leaves plane)
as Self
Gene Autry
as Self (at the microphone)
Alice Pearce
as Self (in girdle ad)
George Harrison
as Self (leaves plane)
Hugh Hefner
as Self
Frank Gifford
as Self (in razor ad)
Hank Williams
as Self (sings Hey Good Lookin')
Prince Rainier of Monaco
as Self (weds Grace)
Fidel Castro
as Self
as Self (HUAC, with Thomas)
as Self
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
as Misidentification (of Mohammed Mossadegh)
Duke Ellington
as Self
Jack Kerouac
as Self
Frankie Lymon
as Self (with the Teenagers)
Thelonious Monk
as Self (plays)
Dizzy Gillespie
as Self (with his band, 1949)
as Self (dribbles paint)
Grace Metalious
as Self (interviewed by Joyce Davidson)
Charlie Parker
as Self (plays with Dizzy)
John Howard Lawson
as Self (testifies before HUAC)
Alfred Kinsey
as Self
as Self (sees Truman take oath, 1945)
Joyce Davidson
as Self (interviews Grace Metalious)
Harold L. Ickes
as Self (sees Truman take oath, 1945)
Sam Rayburn
as Self (sees Truman take oath, 1945, behind Judge Stone)
as Self (HUAC)
as Self (interviewed by Mike Wallace)
John H. Bradley
as Self (raises flag on Iwo Jima)
Bess Truman
as Self (sees Truman take oath, 1945)
Syngman Rhee
as Self (with MacArthur)
Fred M. Vinson
as Self (sees Truman take oath, 1945)
Mohammed Mossadegh
as Self (in military uniform, wears glasses)
as Self (sees Truman take oath, 1945)
as Self (sees Truman take oath, 1945)
Elizabeth Eckford
as Self (attends Little Rock school under guard)
Francis Biddle
as Self (sees Truman take oath, 1945)
Gregory Pincus
as Self (at the microscope)
as Self (administers oath to Truman, 1945)
Joseph W. Martin Jr.
as Self (sees Truman take oath, 1945)
as Self (raises flag on Iwo Jima)
Released 30 Nov 1997
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