The end of the world war second made several changes in the history of cinema in lots of ways.

Ina recked Italy rises the neorealistyc cinema, about the reality of the moment made with few material but lots of humanity that concerns about the problems of the individual and streets. This kind of cinema had influence lots of directores allover the world.

In the USA were everything but optimistics representing the sadness that was passed in war and came some comedys and musicals trying to make people forget their problems. With the beginning of Cold War between Occident and URSS it begins, in the USA, the one that was known as “witch Hunting” in which there is a period of chassing and some comdentions of all who have something to do in the Industry of cinema who defend “left” ideas, and some people chose exile.

Television had a great power in the 50's and cinema needs to innovate to compete with tv. The attempt of bring spectacularity to cinema makes higher screens, higher colors and stereo sound.

It grows the music genre e begun superproductions. It's the time of the great dramas and it appears “thriller” with titles like “Vertigo”(1958) and “Rear Window””(1954).

Young people become a potential important group. Appears new miths who're different from the conventional like Marlon Brando, James Dean or Marilyn Monroe.

Some other places in the world, cinema is also produced. Some african countries like India or Egipt had a great capacity of production, and Japan has distinguished by the quality of many of their productions like the films of Mizoguchi or Kurosawa (The seven Samurai, 1954).

French cinema was essentialy made of classic productions but a new wave of directors appeared with the name of “nouvelle vague”. And it appears the “cinéma verité” that shows life in the way it is.

Ingmar Bergman, in Sweden, creates an introspectiv genre. In Italy  creators like Fellini, Bertolucci e Antonioni chose a more unrealistic genre.

In the United Kingdom, Free Cinema was also getting big with name like Lindsay Anderson e Tony Richardson.

In Federal Germany the “new german cinema” creates directors like Herzog or Wenders that were influenced by the “68 May”.

In Latin America, cinema shows the social awakening with creators like Glaubert Rocha and Pereira Dos Santos in Brasil, Gutiérrez Alea, Octavio Gómez in Cuba and Solanas in Argentina and we can get an alliance between stetics and social commitment.

In european countries with non-democratic regim, appeared liberty defensors like Polanski in Poland, Szabo in Hungary, Forman in Czechoslovaquia, Barden in Spain and Kozintsev in URSS.

After the 60's, in USA, appears a new generation of creators with experience in television. This generation is the creator of the underground cinema, a non-commercial cinema.

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