1959 Movies

Urban reform during the first months of the Cuban revolution is the subject of this documentary

A patchwork of East End colours and characters on Middlesex Street, better-known as Petticoat Lane.

This film describes the rapid industrial development and rising living standards in Puerto Rico, emphasizing private foreign investment, certain tax e...

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

Short documentary providing a detailed look at different types of film and their uses, with a focus on film used in projectors and how projectionists...

Not unlike the travel blogs so in vogue today, this film takes us from Ereaga beach to Cape Matxitxako, treating us to an incomparable look at the bea...

A 20 minute amateur 16mm cine film from 1959 about floral colour in Haringey. It’s as interesting for the people, buildings and vehicles as it for the...

An Arumbaya fetish, a tribe living along the Badurayal river in Amazonia, has been stolen from the museum. Tintin and Thomson and Thompson set out to...

An episode of the documentary series Americans at Work, produced by Norwood Studios for the AFL-CIO. From week to week, the series looked at differen...

Rock salt seas, in the Rio Maior region. Life of salt and salt workers.

In this film, Philippe Durand wanted to express all that his experience of the Algerian war left in him, as physical and moral bruises. It is a love f...

A 1959 film in Taiwanese Hokkien, featuring Koa-á-hì (traditional Taiwanese opera).

Come over the sea to Skye in 1959, with its majestic mist-covered mountains, lush valleys and snug white-washed croft houses, in this award winning am...

Travelogue for British audiences. Held by the Baim Collection.