1959 Movies

A commemoration of the 6th anniversary of the beginning of the Cuban revolution. 500,000 campesinos invited to celebrate the occasion pour into Havana...

Explains how the heart, lungs, veins, arteries, and capillaries work together in the process of circulation. Uses animation, cinefluorography, and a c...

An animated short film directed by Víctor Iturralde.

This sponsored film from Chicago’s Goldsholl Design & Film Associates captures the lively world of pre-1960s advertising through animation and collage...

Taking the lid off the creative process with a group of theatrically-minded 11-year-olds as they stage the nativity.

A document of an early encounter between native New Guineans and Western anthropologists, the film was shot, edited, and used in lectures by Prof. Leo...

Documentary short filmed in Sunnmøre

A melancholy comedy about Loneliness At College and The Meaning of Life.

The relationship between forms in nature and their interpretation in art is explored in independent avant-garde filmmaker Wayne Sourbeer’s gentle and...

This newsreel presents the one and only visit to Albania by Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev. But behind the bear hugs and airport kisses, Enver Hoxha...

Based on an old Korean legend about the tender and beautiful love of the poor girl Chun Hyang and the son of the formidable and cruel ruler Mong Nyoun...