1960 Movies

Produced by the U.S. Air Force, this vintage doc shows how advanced engineering keeps Americans safe from accidental detonations of nuclear weapons.

Colour, silent film recording people, costumes, rites and festivities seen at a Durbar, which celebrates the culmination of Muslim festivals of Eid al...

Trevor White shows the birth of the one of the UK's largest heritage railways - now a significant feature of the region's leisure industry. We see var...

Film diary of the famous Berliet Company expedition between November, 1959 and January, 1960. This mission, composed of historians, ethnologists, geol...

A look at the music of bells, from small hand bells to the great bell of Westminster.

The working of the British electoral and party system as illustrated in the course of a General Election.

Short from 1960 based on the popular Mell Lazarus comic by the same name!

A remarkable series of fragments of home movie footage featuring a young butch dyke on vacation with her father in New Jersey. A rarity from the Jenni...

Landscape photos Cameroon: "Sacha" rubber plantation near the coast, workers tapping the trees and emptying the rubber that has flowed into cups into...

A group of teenagers learn about the true meaning of Christmas in this half hour short.

Short film by Nicole Glibert

Formerly named HMS Ceylon (C-30),it was a British light cruiser that had served in World War II and the Korean War. As part of the Peruvian Navy, it...

Bombs, rockets, a hammer and sickle, the USA flag and Laika the dog race around the moon in this powerful stop-motion animation depicting the Space Ra...

The camera bounces and twists; the film is soft and grainy; and Joan Swain plays in Union Station.