1959 Movies

Several short stories, showing what would happen if Prometheus tried to bring the gift of fire to the mankind in 20th century?

Educational film about the life and habits of the praying mantis. Description of its diet, adolescence and awe-inspiring love customs.

A short documentary about the town of Stockport

Indian film starring S.V. Ranga Rao

24 hours in the lives of three aimless and lost young people looking for work.

Suomi-Filmi's 40th anniversary film from December 1959 introduces all aspects of Finland's largest and most diverse film company. The fast-paced docum...

In a coastal village a faulty street lantern lands on the rubbish yard. During a storm a fishermen's boat is in trouble. The big lighthouse has fallen...

Menken's 16mm, stop-motion tribute to the art of Dwight Ripley was filmed in 1959 in his apartment at 416 East Fifty-eighth Street in New York. She us...

In a coastal town in the south of Thailand, a giant ape nicknamed King Kong terrorizes villagers and abducts a local girl to a forest, prompting a fra...

This West German made report on the state of Israel, not neglecting the lingering problem of Palestine, was meant to open warmer relations between the...

An American couple tour Britain with a teenage girl, visiting London, Canterbury, Cambridge, the West Country, Caernarvon, etc.

Made by the Hemel Hempstead Development Corporation in 1959, this short records the development of Hemel Hempstead following its assignment of New Tow...

The film deals with a fisherman's home on the coast, where everyone one autumn evening sits with their work in the living room.