Gene Kelly dances in "Circus," "Ring Around the Rosy" and "Sinbad the Sailor," which features animation.

The two-time Olympic decathlon champion's (Bob Mathias) story is told, from age 17 until he joins the Marines.

The story of Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch, from his high school days to the University of Wisconsin and University of Michigan, followed by what was thought to be a career-ending injury. Defying the odds, he went on to play for the Los Angeles Rams.

The baseball player (William Bendix) goes from wayward youth to Boston Red Sox pitcher to New York Yankees home-run hero.

After a successful baseball career in college and as a coach in the military, Jackie Robinson attracts the attention of Major League Baseball's Branch Rickey.

Coach Rockne (Pat O'Brien) leads Notre Dame to gridiron greatness with star player George "The Gipper" Gipp (Ronald Reagan).

Coach Pop Warner (Charles Bickford) recalls the Oklahoma Indian (Burt Lancaster) forced to return his medals from the 1912 Olympics.

A youth turns his rebellious nature into a successful ring career in this fact-based portrait of boxer Rocky Graziano.

The Oscar-winning chronicle of the 1974 championship bout between boxers George Foreman and Muhammad Ali.

A guardian angel (James Mason) tells a wacky redhead (Lucille Ball) with a rocky marriage to join her chemist husband (Desi Arnaz) on a field trip.

Heavenly executive Mr. Jordan (Claude Rains) seeks another body for the soul of a boxer (Robert Montgomery), dead 50 years too soon.

A suave angel (Cary Grant) saves a woman (Loretta Young) and her Episcopal husband (David Niven) from spiritual doubt and marital woe.

A carnival barker (Gordon MacRae) finds a wife (Shirley Jones), dies in a robbery, and gets to return to Earth for one day to guide his teenage daughter.

A Budapest banker (Nelson Eddy) dreams of marrying an angel (Jeanette MacDonald), after meeting her earthly double.

Sobered by an archangel, the president (Walter Huston) fires his crooked Cabinet and becomes a world leader.

A Norwegian farmer (Edward G. Robinson) lovingly raises his daughter (Margaret O'Brien) in Benson Junction, Wis.

A European princess (Grace Kelly) waltzes with her tutor (Louis Jourdan) but is destined to marry a crown prince (Alec Guinness).

A ghostly woman warns a Victorian heiress (Eleanor Parker) about a count (Sydney Greenstreet) and his cohort who are after her fortune.

Scandal erupts when a woman who cannot hear or speak is accused of gunning down the bully who supposedly raped her.

Orson Welles' tale of an eccentric Indiana family clinging to tradition during a time of rapid change.

Enigmatic newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles) rises, falls and leaves behind a riddle with his dying breath.

A mystery writer (Agnes Moorehead) and her friends are stalked by a faceless throat-ripper (Vincent Price) in a haunted house.

A Brooklyn chorus girl (Rita Hayworth) wins a contest, leaves her boyfriend (Gene Kelly) and joins a Broadway show.

A singer (Liza Minnelli) and a saxophonist (Robert De Niro) team up and break up in the postwar big-band era.

A Russian commissar tries to lure back a defector, while an American producer is determined to thwart her every move.

An actor (Gene Kelly) woos a Caribbean islander (Judy Garland) by posing as the pirate (Walter Slezak) of her dreams.

The notorious buccaneer wages a battle against Sir Henry Morgan, a reformed pirate working for the king of England.

A swashbuckler (Edmund Purdom) draws Charles II's attention to a bad duke (David Niven) by trying to steal the crown jewels.

British sleuth Simon Templar (George Sanders) and his sidekicks (Sally Gray, David Burns) catch counterfeiters for Scotland Yard.

Ken Williams is determined to discover the identity of a mysterious killer who preys upon railroads and transportation companies.

The ape man (Johnny Weissmuller), Boy (Johnny Sheffield) and Princess Zandra (Frances Gifford) make war on Nazis.

Shot entirely at the Gettysburg National Military Park, where the decisive battle of the American Civil War was fought. Leslie Nielsen narrates the story while contemporary songs and the sounds of battle are heard in the background.

A singer (Carole Lombard) follows a jazz trumpeter (Fred MacMurray) from Panama to Manhattan, where he rises and falls.

A hobo (Victor Moore) shares a New York mansion with a veteran (Don DeFore) and others who need a wintertime place to stay.

Orson Welles narrates the story of Jesus (Jeffrey Hunter) including the Sermon on the Mount, the Last Supper, the Passion and the Resurrection.

Often in films, things are not what they seem, and learning the truth about characters and situations creates much of the tension in the film.

A doctor's unconventional theories of medicine and relationship with a young student place his reputation in jeopardy.

Grand Duke Peter's (Sam Jaffe) teenage German bride becomes Russia's Catherine the Great (Marlene Dietrich).

A New York police detective (Victor Mature) hunts his boyhood buddy, a killer jewel thief (Richard Conte) trying to leave the country.

A Manhattan single (Amy Irving) meets a man (Peter Riegert) through her Jewish grandmother's (Reizl Bozyk) matchmaker.

A New York City photographer feels an overwhelming sense of loneliness when her best friend gets married and moves out.

A casting mix-up leads a dancer (George Murphy) to land a major role intended for his partner (Fred Astaire).

A tycoon (Adolphe Menjou) sends anonymous gifts to his daughter (Rita Hayworth) to make her fall for a mystery man he will choose later, but a dancer (Fred Astaire) he doesn't like takes the credit.

A New York police detective (Victor Mature) hunts his boyhood buddy, a killer jewel thief (Richard Conte) trying to leave the country.

While a Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor looms, an Army sergeant (Burt Lancaster), a former boxer (Montgomery Clift) and an officer's wife (Deborah Kerr) become entangled with others at an Army base on Oahu.

Nick and Nora Charles (William Powell, Myrna Loy) solve racetrack-related murders with their 4-year-old son and dog, Asta.

Ballet dancer Petrov (Fred Astaire) woos a musical star (Ginger Rogers) at sea and in New York, despite rumors of their marriage.

Three gold diggers (Marilyn Monroe, Lauren Bacall, Betty Grable) share a Manhattan penthouse, hoping to lure eligible rich men.

The publisher (Sydney Greenstreet) of a women's magazine has his best columnist (Barbara Stanwyck) play holiday host to a Navy hero (Dennis Morgan).

A ship's officer (Kenneth More) sees disaster as the Titanic hits an iceberg and slowly sinks on its 1912 maiden voyage.

In old Spanish California, the son of a California aristocrat disguises himself as a daring swordsman to defend the honor of his people.

Simon stands on top of a stone column in the middle of the desert and prays for six years, six weeks and six days. Despite his ceaseless penance he remains plagued by unrest, uncertainty and the devil herself.

A would-be nun (Silvia Pinal) visits her rich uncle (Fernando Rey), who drugs her, and everything gets surreal.

A documentary about acclaimed film director William Wyler.

A fake preacher (Zero Mostel) and his helper (Kim Novak) are not the only ones planning to rob a frontier bank.

An ex-British army officer (Jack Hawkins) recruits other ex-officers to do a bank caper with military precision.

An ex-convict's (Edward G. Robinson) niece (Jane Wyman) runs a shop over the tunnel he and his partners are digging to a bank vault.

An Army officer and his buddies go behind enemy lines with a tank escort to steal gold bars from the Nazis.

A woman (Natalie Wood) disguised as a little old lady robs her husband's (Ian Bannen) bank, then tells her analyst (Dick Shawn).

A bank clerk (Eddie Bracken) gets in trouble after posing as the unknown GI father of his girlfriend's (Betty Hutton) sextuplets.

Three bored old-timers (George Burns, Art Carney, Lee Strasberg) leave Queens, put on funny masks and rob a Manhattan bank.

A ballerina (Greta Garbo), baron (John Barrymore), stenographer (Joan Crawford), bookkeeper and tycoon check into Berlin's Grand Hotel.

A tycoon (Warren William) lies to women and his partners as he grasps for control of a 100-story office building.

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.

A dime-store heiress (Marion Davies) rejects a New Yorker (Leslie Howard), then destroys his marriage.

An aspiring small-town criminal relocates to Chicago to hit the big time, accompanied by his buddy, but once there they find their paths taking them in drastically different directions.

Mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters, scullery maid Ella (Leslie Caron) finally meets her prince (Michael Wilding).

A roguish poet is given the run of the scheming Wazir's harem while pretending to help him usurp the young caliph.

The son (Richard Kiley) of an ill-fated anti-crime crusader (John McIntire) tries to clean up his notorious Alabama hometown.

An anti-Nazi German (John Wayne) romances a Nazi spy (Lana Turner) on his rusty freighter, as the British navy hunts it down.

Ensign Pulver (Jack Lemmon) plots cargo officer Mr. Roberts' (Henry Fonda) escape from their nit-picking captain (James Cagney).

The Rev. Harry Powell, a religious fanatic and serial killer, meets condemned murderer Ben Harper in prison, who tells him about hiding $10,000 in stolen loot. After he's released, Powell tracks down Harper's widow, Willa, and her two children.

Cowboy Curly (Gordon MacRae) loves Laurey (Shirley Jones) despite hired hand Jud Fry (Rod Steiger). Rodgers and Hammerstein songs include Oh What a Beautiful Mornin'.

A child spreads malicious lies about two women (Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon) and a man (Joel McCrea) at a private boarding school.

A young woman's (Merle Oberon) $90 million inheritance drives out her fiance (Rex Harrison) and draws fortune hunters.

A global reporter (Dennis Morgan) tries to win back his wife (Merle Oberon) and is wooed by a colleague (Rita Hayworth) in the process.

An elderly woman (Merle Oberon) recalls her suitors: a football hero, a doctor (Joseph Cotten), a blind musician and a sailor (Alan Marshal).

After the death of her husband, Christine sets out to visit each man who danced with her at a ball many years earlier.

A French family's picnic leads to romance as a pair of flirtatious strangers tries to seduce a mother and her daughter.

MGM history; Cyd Charisse; host George Murphy.

A bank teller's (Frank Sinatra) reward for saving a bookie's life reflects a shortage on his teller girlfriend's (Jane Russell) shift.

Songwriter Gus Kahn (Danny Thomas) and his wife (Doris Day) have problems as he pens hit tunes like "It Had to Be You.".

A divorced coach (John Wayne) and his little girl build a football team to pull a priest's (Charles Coburn) college out of debt.

Dixieland cornetist Loring "Red" Nichols (Danny Kaye) quits for his wife (Barbara Bel Geddes) and daughter, then makes a comeback.

A Philadelphia lawyer (Clark Gable) goes to Italy to wrest his orphan nephew from a stripper aunt (Sophia Loren).

A lawyer (Cary Grant) with three children lives on a houseboat with an Italian symphony conductor's daughter (Sophia Loren) as his maid.

A widow (Lucille Ball) with eight children meets, courts and weds a widowed Navy officer (Henry Fonda) with a brood of 10.

Gene Kelly sings and dances in a 1967 adaptation of the tale, which combines live action and animation.

A literate spider and a rat save a pig from slaughter in an animated adaptation of E.B. White's classic.

A businessman (Edward Asner) tries to reunite with his wife (Maureen Stapleton) and family for what may be his last Christmas.

A London speech therapist (Patricia Neal) helps an uprooted boy (Scott Jacoby) about to have a breakdown over his parents' divorce.

A teenage genius (Wesley Eure) invents a robot watchdog to bail out his girlfriend's (Valerie Bertinelli) father's (Conrad Bain) home-security business.

The U.S. ambassador's (Walter Pidgeon) daughter falls for a Mexican pianist (Jose Iturbi) old enough to be her grandfather.

The life story of Raoul Walsh, who was one of the most influential directors of classic Hollywood cinema, with a filmography of over 150 films of various genres.

Discovered by Gene Kelly, French actress and dancer Leslie Caron stars in some of the best and most important American films of the 1950s.

Highlighting the birth of the Hitchcock Touch at a period when talking pictures first emerged and exploring trademark themes like murder, suspense and blondes.

The life and work of the controversial film critic.

Documenting Horn and Hardart's iconic Automat, one of America's original and most popular restaurant chains in NYC and Philadelphia.

The story of Z Channel, one of the first U.S. pay cable stations, and its programming chief, Jerry Harvey; debuting in 1974, their eclectic slate of movies became a prime example of the untapped power of cable television.

The in-depth biography explores Dean Martin's varied career, including his complicated relationships with Jerry Lewis, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr. and others.

Television highlights and interviews profile the comedy team of Mike Nichols and Elaine May.

Features the most revered screenwriter, Paddy Chayefsky.

Heavenly executive Mr. Jordan allows an angry quarterback (Warren Beatty), taken before his time, to return to Earth as a millionaire.

An angel (Harry Belafonte) visits an old Jewish shopkeeper (Zero Mostel) and his dying wife (Ida Kaminska).

God comes to Earth as an elderly man (George Burns) with a twinkle and picks a supermarket produce manager (John Denver) to spread his word.

An angel (Bruno Ganz) meets actor Peter Falk and falls in love with a French trapeze artist (Solveig Dommartin) in Berlin.

In biblical times a man, mistakenly proclaimed a messiah, finds himself leader of a new religious movement.

King Arthur (Graham Chapman) goes questing on a pretend horse, followed by his lackey clacking coconut shells.

Sailors Gabey (Gene Kelly), Chip (Frank Sinatra) and Ozzie have 24 hours to meet pretty women and see the sights of New York.

A socialite's (Grace Kelly) ex-husband (Bing Crosby) and a magazine writer (Frank Sinatra) show up for her wedding and cause havoc.

A dried-out heroin addict (Frank Sinatra) returns to his wife (Eleanor Parker) and card dealing in Chicago.

An ex-GI writer (Frank Sinatra) hangs out with a gambler (Dean Martin) and a floozy (Shirley MacLaine) in his hometown.

Veterans of the 82nd Airborne Division devise an elaborate plot to simultaneously rob five casinos on New Year's Eve.

An adman's (Frank Sinatra) wife (Deborah Kerr) winds up wed to his buddy (Dean Martin) after a quickie Mexican divorce and marriage.

An effeminate theater director (Christopher Guest) assembles blithely talentless Missourians (Eugene Levy, Fred Willard) for a musical celebrating a town milestone.

Pampered pooches and their quirky owners converge on Philadelphia to compete in a prestigious dog show.

An American filmmaker (Rob Reiner) records the demise of a fictitious band of aging British metalheads (Michael McKean, Christopher Guest) in a mock rockumentary.

A film-school graduate (Kevin Bacon) goes to Hollywood, where tasteless people turn his arty movie into Beach Nuts.

About 65 real-life movie stars fringe the satire of a Hollywood studio executive (Tim Robbins) who gets away with murder.

A notorious con man's (George Sanders) secretary (Yvonne De Carlo) recalls his career after he's found dead in a Park Avenue mansion.

British sleuth Simon Templar (George Sanders) helps a wayward San Franciscan (Wendy Barrie) clear her framed father's name.

Ken Williams is determined to discover the identity of a mysterious killer who preys upon railroads and transportation companies.

The ape man (Johnny Weissmuller) and Boy (Johnny Sheffield) meet a chorus girl (Nancy Kelly) on her way to warn a sheik about Nazis.

A doctor (Stanley Ridges) investigates crimes in his lab.

A songwriter (Dick Van Dyke) sees his big chance when rock 'n' roll idol Conrad Birdie visits Sweet Apple, Ohio, to give one last kiss to his biggest fan (Ann-Margret) before joining the Army.

London children have fun with a marvelous nanny (Julie Andrews) and her chimney-sweep friend (Dick Van Dyke).

An inventor (Dick Van Dyke) takes his kids and a candy tycoon's daughter (Sally Ann Howes) for a musical ride in a flying car.

Many of cinema's most memorable love stories end with the separation or death of one or both lovers; the paradox underlying the film helps explains why they stick in viewers' memories.

A New York boxer (Jamie Smith) corners a dancer's (Irene Kane) bad boss (Frank Silvera) in a mannequin factory.

A fight promoter (Rod Steiger) hires a hard-luck sportswriter (Humphrey Bogart) to hype a simple Argentine boxer for the mob.

A British banker (Peter Cushing) pretends to cooperate with a would-be robber (Andre Morell) holding his wife and son.

Three teens (Brooke Bundy, Kevin Coughlin, Patty McCormack) join other lost souls on the street in Chicago's hippie district.