1959 Movies

A short film explaining the phenomenon of ten-pin bowling, from a brief explanation of its origins to the professional players performing tricks with...

This 1959 Encyclopedia Britannica Film explores the lives and actions of Vikings, also called Norsemen or Northmen. While perhaps slightly romanticize...

Bollywood 1959

An industrial film by Jerry Fairbanks about proper use of a telephone system in your office.

A bright outlook in Birkenhead for a thriving British enterprise.

A look at the two faces of Berlin, separated by the Berlin Wall, and how they are very different.

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

A film reportage on countryside laundresses by Jože Bevc.

It records the festivities that, at the time, took place in the heart of the city, at the meeting of Rua dos Andradas and Avenida Borges Medeiros.

Directed by Bhalji Pendharkar. With Suryakant, Master Vithal, Ramesh Deo, Ganpat Patil.

Another educational short from Young America Films designed to answer a burning question.

Ethnographic documentary on the folk tradition of the Busójárás Carnival in Mohács, Hungary.

This creepy film starts with newsagent posters telling of an escape from Broadmoor. We see a girl deliver newspapers to a house from which a small chi...

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...

Animated from chalk drawings by artist Alma Duncan and filmed by photographer Audrey MacLaren, the short film is about the exchange of goods over the...

A short capturing cats playing with a length of twine.