1950 Movies

Highlights from the 1950 Isle of Man motor cycle race won by Geoff Duke.

Typical example of discovery and tourism documentary, with strong propaganda accents. This is the good life for the settlers of Beira, in the centre o...

A BAFTA award winning documentary looking at post war social, political and religious conditions in Japan.

A BAFTA nominated documentary investigating the development of the castle.

One of the earliest examples of pony play fetishism on film.

A propagandistic film about the positive impact the United Fruit Company had on Guatemalan society.

Denver Sutton's hand-painted films. This rarely seen cluster of four (?) films dates from 1949 - 1950.

Animated short film that narrates a tree's biological cycle.

A Jorge Caro's animation short film.

A Jorge Caro's animation short film.

Based on 'The Insulted and the Injured' by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

British Pathé news reel showcasing Christmas around the world in 1950

In the early 1950s, Jordan Belson made a hand-drawn animated commercial for the local newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle. He disliked the music t...

The first breast-cancer-awareness film released for wide distribution, produced by the American Cancer Society, National Cancer Institute, and U.S. Pu...

In 1949, Shanghai after liberation. Many intellectuals entered the East China People's Revolutionary University and were reformed in this revolutionar...

It tells the history of civilization through the objects of the Museo de La Plata.

During the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty, somewhere in the south of the Yangtze River, childhood sweethearts Xiao Xiaoyu and Zhang Yungu planted...

Han Ping, a native of the Song Dynasty, bid farewell to his bride's true husband and went to Beijing to seek an official position. He did not return f...

In 1948, a small county near Shanghai. Celebrity Su Yaoqian appears to be doing things that are fair and righteous, but secretly exploits and persecut...