1950 Movies

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

Commissioned by Australian Paper Manufacturers, this documentary shows the process of paper manufacturing in the Boola Boola State Forest region of Gi...

HK horror film.

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...

A fascinating glimpse of the Chinese diaspora across southeast Asia, this Hong Kong production follows a wayward husband through Southern China and Th...

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...

Khadra's father, Hajj Abdullah, dies, leaving her and her brother Fares a huge fortune that he stored in Balalis. Khadra is surprised when their cousi...

Susan and Ted are creating an insect zoo, learning about various insects.

By Paul Beatie.

Documentary about the history of the Belgium-Congo route, made on the occasion of the thousandth flight.

Manuhiri from various tribes throughout New Zealand assemble at Waiomatatini near Ruatoria for the tangi of Sir Apirana Ngata.

Lourdes stays in the sad, old house where her old guardian Bernardo welcomes her. Armando is the only one who leaves the house; the others have been l...

Freedom, rights, obligations, the pursuit of happiness -- meanings of these terms are explored as this film develops its theme that the Declaration of...

Tyneside shipyard Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson turns out a beast of a tanker for the Argentine Navy.

Methods of making stone tools are demonstrated and their uses explained.

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...

Mona's Candle Light was discovered among reels of film that Geoff Alexander, of the Bay Area-based Academic Film Archive of North America, bought at a...

The difficult journey to Los Llanganates in search of the treasures of the Atahualpa Incas.

A famed Hungarian playwright arrives in American and, in order to secure the success of his new play, his friends dope him up and take him to the hosp...