Movies 1959 Page 43

A short documentary showing the state of agricultural management in the Kumanovo region, before and after the construction of Lipkovo Lake and the...

A report from a student’s festival in Kraków. The history of this event dates back to the 15th century in Poland. Statues and knights at Wawel...

The film follows a dress rehearsal of a charity concert.

A POW marries a woman he meets in Mexico. Controversy erupts when people find out that she's one-quarter black.

After being struck by lightning, a woman gives birth a girl who can control electricity.

Serving a jail sentence for a crime he didn't commit, Paul Langley makes several attempts to escape from prison, in order to clear his name. He also...

Once upon a time the Chuang family chopped firewood for a living. Mother Tanja spent three years day and night weaving this tapestry. One day a wind...

After a series of misunderstandings and other unfortunate incidents, the honeymoon of two young couples ends sooner than planned. Back at their...

Magically gifted boy Sasuke lives in peace, deep in the forest with his animal pals and Oyu, his elder sister. After their forest sanctuary is...

The teacher Dorothee Durand, young and single, travels from England to the picturesque south of France to find the remaining remnants of her family....

The story of Hadji Murad, a 19th-century Chechen chieftain who led his warriors in a fight against the invading forces of the Russian Czar.

Costume comedy

Divorce lawyer Dr. Winifred Lert tries to convince her daughter Susi of the futility of marriage. But Susi has long since married herself. Susi also...

Katja van Kalmpthout tells the story of a young woman caught between family expectations and her desire for independence. The daughter of newly...

The well-meaning but bumbling Baby Huey decides to give his father a wonderful Father's Day he won't forget, and does just that. His well-intentioned...

Father Conroy has a parish which serves the acting and performance community. When one of his parishioners gets too sick to work, his daughter Holly...

Zenobia, Queen of Palmira, revolts against Rome and defeats the Roman troops, but she makes a big mistake when she falls in love with enemy officer...

The film tells the story of four orphans living in an impoverished mining town. An adaptation of a best-selling book based on the diary of a...

A young American serviceman stationed in Germany after the fall of the Third Reich, jeopardises his future after falling in love with a German woman.

As the Modernisation Scheme for British Railways enters its sixth year, its effects become increasingly apparant in every aspect of railway work...

Saint-Junien, opening day of the hunt, an enthusiastic but clumsy hunter sets off to hunt down game...

Dorothy Montgomery uses a Leybold tube to measure the curvature of the path of the electrons in a magnetic field and thus determine the mass of the...

short experimental animation from Spain

One of Jordan Belson's presentation reels used in the Vortex Concerts.

Two children fight with wooden blades while standing beneath a pendulum.

Sonic boom is the sound of security.

A British Transport Film.

A devilish, surreal nightmare of bisexual lust.

Television manufacturing at RCA's New Jersey plant. Includes scenes of design, engineering and quality control.

Ethnographic documentary on the folk tradition of the Busójárás Carnival in Mohács, Hungary.

Featured artists: Yoshida Toshio; Kanayama Akira; Shiraga Kazuo; Shimamoto Shōzō

Jim MacAndrew's interview with director René Clair was televised live in November 1959. With the cooperation of the New York State Education...

A look at modern technology and how it is used to help make life harder for lawbreakers.

This 1959 Encyclopedia Britannica Film explores the lives and actions of Vikings, also called Norsemen or Northmen. While perhaps slightly...