1950 Movies

Husband and wife struggle to attain a balance of power in their marriage in this neorealist social guidance film.

This 1950 documentary examines the penalties of forest destruction: fire, flood, wasted resources and barren lands. The film describes measures to pre...

In this film, servicemen are strongly urged to forgo illicit and casual sex because it is degrading and contrary to divine will. The joys of marriage...

Promotional film about the benefits of joint farming in unified agricultural cooperatives in Slovakia.

Abstract experimental film set to music.

An “image fantasy” inspired by Picasso’s painting.

It was 1943. Burma was under Japanese control. In Pegu, a small place near Burma lived two Indian families. They were neighbors Kumar and Lata loved e...

Tommy Tucker gets hit by a car and ends up in safety heaven. Or does he?

Part of BFI's "National Coal Board Collection".

A family's horse-drawn ice delivery business is threatened by a more modern automobile-using company.

Two desert vultures, flying around over the desert, see a menu tossed out of a passing train. They acquire it and get an appetite for Rabbit Stew, the...

Ralph Staub zooms his Screen Snapshots camera in on many of the most famous newspaper comic-strip cartoonists and creators of the era. Notable in that...

Experimental 16 mm black/white film from Chicago from 1950 by Danish photographer Keld Helmer-Petersen (1920-2013).

This Traveltalk series short visits an array of locations associated with England's heritage. Included are Runnymede, Windsor, Ascot, Lincoln, Wells,...

"The White Hands" - 'I came to film in my capacity of poet, wanting to see whether I could express myself in pictures rather that in words-create a fi...

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

Sally leans how to make a quick meal... in just under 20 minutes!

Documentary film in competition at the 1st Berlin Film Festival

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