1950 Movies

No Strangers Here is a fictionalised account of a family of "new Australians" arriving in their new home town. The family (mum, dad, girl and boy) are...

Bob used to be a loner, keeping to himself and thinking "my own thoughts"--until he meets Joe, a "sincere and real" young man who befriends Bob, and s...

The two magpies are wanted criminals, complete with "Wanted" posters being spread everywhere. They come across Dimwit and the tough Bulldog, and the p...

A trip around England meeting various oddities and obscurities including a hair raising Taxi drive around 1950s central London.

A massive housing construction is unfolding in the city of Molotov. In 1949, the residents of the Stalin District of the city received 1200 square met...

This film stars June Adair "The Battling Ballerina" versus Lynn O'Conner, "The Lovely Terror".

Biology teacher shows pupils how they react differently to same situation. Discusses what emotions are, what they do, where they come from, and how th...

Documentary about children's shelters in Czech villages, which serve to care for children when parents do not have time for them due to their workload...

Propaganda film produced by the British Colonial Film Unit depicting everyday life in Nairobi, Kenya.

A young man who needs money to buy a typewriter gets a job in a bookstore. He finds out that work cuts into his social life, and is torn between quitt...

Drama from Hong Kong directed by Wong Toi.

Life and old customs of village people in Prekmurje, a region of Eastern Slovenia.

One of the very few Burma/Myanmar classics still in existence and is the country’s earliest surviving silent film in colour from 1950. Contemporary st...

This promotional film for Hope and Anchor Breweries resembles a light news itemfrom a 1950s cinemagazine, with added historical recreations, which, to...

This Traveltalk series short takes the viewer to several locations in the Lake Country of northern England. The first stop is Lake Windermere, the lar...

A teaching film for social studies, which was developed as a new educational subject in 1947. At an elementary school in Hokkaido, children have start...

The degree of intelligence with which a variety of animals solve deliberately-posed problems is shown as proof that animals do not act on instinct onl...