The purpose of this film list is to give you a place to start when it comes to learning about films from the 1940s and 50s. These movies can be ... In the post-World War II world, a detective ...

(CNN)-- Van Johnson, whose boyish looks and earnest manner made him a Hollywood heartthrob in the 1940s and '50s, died Friday in ... from comedies and war films, such as "The Caine Mutiny" and ...

Historian and writer Simon Heffer discusses British military films made in the 1950s, celebrating their individual qualities and their depiction of the changing world of post-war Britain ...