1959 Movies

Showcasing the cream of Australian rock'n'roll performers of the era, the film features Johnny O'Keefe, Col Joye, Johnny Devlin, The Delltones, Johnny...

The Urdu film Himmat (1959) was directed by Amin Malik.

This film shows a complicated three-year engineering project leading to the destruction of Ripple Rock, a deathtrap in the shipping lane between Vanco...

Mac the busker talks about his life, as a painter and entertainer of theatre queues in Soho for twenty years.

Unfinished, 16mm, b&w silent film directed by Maya Deren. No copy of this film exists

The life of Mariana de Jesus, Saint of Quito.

An unfinished animated short from the late 1950s.

A musical summary of the post-Culloden journey of Bonnie Prince Charlie.

The story of a relationship between a wealthy widow and a frivolous young girl.

“Everyone here is an artist, there is no problem with art movements” – this is the approach in the painting classes for adults and children at Kibbutz...

Excavations in the Po Delta provide insights into Greek-Etruscan times.

This film is one of a series on Plant Supervisors' Problems. Based on material furnished by the Education and Training Department of the Aluminum Com...

A look at the exciting world of stock car racing, with glimpses at all the bumps and smashes, and thrills and spills that make up this amazing sport.

At East High, students resent the admission of Bruce—an unseen classmate their parents have warned them to avoid. But when an unexpected incident unfo...

Shows footage from King Haakon the 7th arrival in Norway in 1905 to the beginning of the space age.

Informational film about night driving that was produced for General Motors Nordiska in 1959.

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...