1959 Movies

One of the rare documentaries that allows the viewer to get into the intimacy of a monastery. We are indeed - through the experience of a novice - mad...

Union Pacific paid tribute to its Big Boys in a publicity film that has become a sought-out collector"s item for rail enthusiasts worldwide. You"ll se...

Sonic boom is the sound of security.

The building of the first hidrelectric usine in Furnas, Brazil.

Documentary about the the politician Magalhães Barata's death and mourning, in Belém Brazil.

An animated and live action fantasy, the loop de loops of ten spoons, forks and tableware ... a parable in the shape of a soup spoon ... conceived as...

1959, 7:35 min., color, silent, 8mm

Because of the film's choices of text and illustration were made so well – and because the natural anatomy of memory is so like that of cinema montage...

Cuban news segment documenting the takeover of the facilities and property of Hollywood distributors on the island.

A short film displaying Joan Miller's plaid-heavy fashions for young women.

Project XX examines American life in the 1930s from the Depression and election of Franklin D. Roosevelt to the eve of World War II.

This 20th Century-Fox CinemaScope special traces the journey of Queen Elizabeth (II) and Prince Philip to the United States and Canada in conjunction...

A lonely man wanders the streets of contemporary Warsaw. He reads the daily press, observes women in a beauty salon and follows the action on a film s...

A young girl pulls a sled as she explores Philadelphia in the summer.

The film documents the well-known story of Anne Frank, whose family hid from the Nazis in Amsterdam. Eventually caught, Frank was sent to the Bergen-B...

A satirical Soviet puppet animation film from 1959. Based on the poem of the same name (1926) by Vladimir Mayakovsky.