1960 Movies

Documentary by Joachim Jomeyer

Part of BFI collection "Your Children and You."

Department of Agriculture film documenting the use of nuclear energy (specifically Cobalt-60 gamma rays) to eradicate the screwworm fly - an insect pe...

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

Bollywood 1960

The story of Sakharam, a simple man who somehow ends up in the wrong company. He rescues a girl who has been kidnapped by a gangster who in turn takes...

A few years before Kubrick in "2001", although in a more farcical way, Ion Popescu-Gopo shows the evolution of a strange creature named man from the t...

"Electronic music by Henry Jacobs. A pioneer computer abstract film, produced in 1960, in which complex oscilloscope patterns in beautiful vivid col...

Dream Maker explores the relationship between two young women in a tender play of furtive glances, sensual interactions and hesitations. It’s a striki...

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...

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...

Man on the move, look back, all clear, OK, you're away - music and mantra for a time when the freedom of the road was unsullied and adventurous.

An industrial short.

Soundtrack: Stephan Wolpe's QUARTET FOR TRUMPET, TENOR SAXOPHONE, PERCUSSION, AND PIANO.

Set in and around Darwin the film discloses the life of a full-blood Aborigine as depicted in Douglas Lockwood's book of the same name. Philip Roberts...

A film about the Solent with a look at the steam trains operating across the Isle of Wight.

This educational film explains how Earth-orbiting space platforms and lunar bases ("way stations") will serve a key role in the exploration of our sol...

Presents typical situations which occur on a dinner date--checking, seating, ordering, table technique, make-up repair, tipping and escort courtesy.

Colour footage, shot between 1960 and 1965 of Tiger Bay (part of Butetown),recorded both the activities of The Rainbow Club and the varied range of c...