1957 Movies

Duha is a thin girl who lives with her grandfather, but she suffers from the complex of leaving the house after the death of her parents in a car acci...

An absorbing record of the advance preparations for the historic first crossing of the Antarctic Continent by Dr. Vivian Fuchs and Sir Edmund Hillary.

John Schlesinger's 1957 film about the Wakes Week holiday in Blackburn looks at the tradition where mill towns shut down and thousands of workers head...

The father of a dying woman pays a con artist to make his daughter's final year a happy one.

Three archaeologists learn about the impact television, especially the CBS network, had on postwar America.

About "crooked" teeth, dealing with the causes of irregular teeth and stressing the importance of early, regular and systematic care of the primary te...

Children with their musical instruments are able to drive lazy Martin out of the furnace and punish him for his laziness.

Each individual member of a rural cooperative family is entitled to a plot of land for personal use. The large Sedmak family lives together, but the e...

A short puppet animation movie by Tadahito Mochinaga.

A Lost Persian Film.

Queen Elizabeth's younger and only sibling, Princess Margaret, went on a 5-week tour of Mauritius and East Africa in September-October 1956.

An interventionist documentary showing the phenomenon of widespread prostitution, maintained in the style characteristic of the "black series" of Poli...

Audrey and her dog Pal try to spend a peaceful day fishing, while avoiding the mean old truant officer.

Documentary

UCLA Animation Workshop Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Color hand-drawn and paper-cut animation. Animation adapted f...

Kokovios and Kavouras become street vendors in Athens to earn a living. They are in love with Annea and Paraskeva, unaware that Paraskeva is a man who...

The coach of a freshman track team explains the intricacies of the male reproduction system, and how to use it, to his team.