1959 Movies

The building of the first hidrelectric usine in Furnas, Brazil.

A small, neglected boy protests against his busy parents by rambling across the city alone.

1959 Argentinian short

Robot Minus serves Doctor Sinus, its creator and constructor, who works at a desk. However, a magnetic horseshoe gets into the robot’s mechanism and d...

A film reportage on countryside laundresses by Jože Bevc.

The second film by Cecilia Mangini is based on the words of neo-realist writer Vasco Pratolini. It alternates between documentary and the reconstructi...

A film by Gianfranco Mingozzi.

Short documentary about dancing hands.

A documentary record of the construction of the Lorenzo Arenas Market, an iconic building and architectural landmark from the mid-20th century located...

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

The Urdu film Himmat (1959) was directed by Amin Malik.

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

In the hands of another director, the inner-workings of a magnet laboratory could have caused a whole classroom to fall asleep of boredom. No so when...

One of the rare documentaries that allows the viewer to get into the intimacy of a monastery. We are indeed - through the experience of a novice - mad...