1959 Movies

This 1959 film by the Bureau of Mines (US Department of the Interior.) in cooperation with asbestos manufacturer Johns Manville, describes how asbesto...

A look at the invention of the hovercraft and its first cross English Channel crossing.

A fantastic, growing, decorative canvas, influenced by Indian art but with a moderate element of its own.

Arctic landscape. Polar station. Winterers at their instruments, by the map. Preparing dog sleds for the journey. Winterers and dogs making their way...

Documentary of life on bord the sailing ship Pamir

Directed by Abdel-Jabar Wali.

Odds & Ends is a sly comment on the collage film and Beat culture. To discarded travel and advertising footage found at a local film laboratory, Belso...

Considered the first Portuguese abstract film. In the already difficult category of fantasy, in fact this production marks an extraordinarily prominen...

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

Directed by Datta Dharmadhikari.

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

Edited version of the 1937 Republic serial "Zorro Rides Again."

A report on the Film Academy in Ulm, Germany

The documentary presents the flora and fauna of Spitsbergen.

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

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

The forest loses its peace with the arrival of a young man searching for a forester.

An insight into the training of recreational pilots.