1951 Movies

Polish composer Stanisław Moniuszko fights for the right to stage his opera "Halka".

A story about Teresita who grew up in an orphanage in the province and falls in love with Antonio a landowner from the metro.

Hugh's former girlfriend tries to blackmail him with old love letters.

A documentary film about the Karelo-Finnish SSR.

The rich heiress of an emigrant lives a season of retreat and rest in the Asturian village from which her father left as a child. The experiences that...

This is an anthropologically rich documentary, focusing on worship of temple deities, how the gods and the demons interface with Bali life, and the da...

A documentary on the work of artist Henry Moore.

Based on the hit 1951 jingle, this stop-motion animated short briefly follows the titular Suzy Snowflake as she brings joyful snowfall with her, heral...

Cold War propaganda allegory about farm markets.

An attempted evocation of the tradition of British printing, in a series of dramatised impressions: the discovery of a new method of printing in Franc...

Shortly before a nightclub artist leaves Mexico for an international tour, she's witness to a murder. Shortly after she leaves, she's named as a suspe...

A film sketch about sound recording.

16mm silent color film shot by Cab Calloway during his 1951 tour in Haiti. This film features footage of Cab Calloway and his band performing on an ou...

The Stormy Era of Twenty Years

Rain rituals with possession dances among the Songhay and Zarma of Simiri, Zermaganda, Niger. Dry Season: The village of Simiri; water carriers, the r...