The 50s were "happening years" in the United States. Many Americans had enough money to buy their first house. Cancer claimed several famous people. Actor Humphrey Bogart and Nobel laureate atomic physicist Enrico Fermi died at a fairly young age. The nation enjoyed unparalleled prosperity. Several significant breakthroughs were made in the field of medicine. The decade also witnessed an increased restlessness among teenagers who wished to break away from traditions. This extraordinary Video showcases the efforts made by authorities in the 50s to inform, educate and warn teenagers in California on various aspects of life.
In the 1920s, former coal miner Harry Hoxsey claimed to have an herbal cure for cancer. Although scoffed at and ultimately banned by the medical establishment, by the 1950s, Hoxsey's formula had been used to treat thousands of patients, who testified to its efficacy.
In a 19th-century European village, a young man about to be married is whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious corpse bride, while his real bride waits bereft in the land of the living.
A chronicle of the sordid life and suspicious death of Rolling Stones co-founder Brian Jones, who was found in the bottom of his swimming pool weeks after being let go from the band.
A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters, but if he dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met, so the family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages.
A girl from a peaceful, Edo-era Japanese village seeks revenge for the death of a disgraced elder with the help of her sister and a lethal lady ninja nun.
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