1958 Movies

A film by Marie Menken.

An overview of the art collection of Richard Winther.

A documentary without a narrator on certain episodes of superstition and magical rituals in Rome.

Short film about psychological problems in working spaces.

Short documentary about the processing of tobacco.

PASTORAL D'ETE is one of the nation's first works of the Personal Film movement. Hindle dovetails the lyrical images of a singular high summer's day h...

"Dedicated to Detroit and subtitled 'America on wheels.' A fantasy-farce on the car of everyday life. Everything is a vehicle, life is in motion, moti...

Aimed to educate the people, and especially those who lived in the most vulnerable areas, about important safety measures to be taken before, during,...

Imaginative film showing how automatic gadgets in homes and workplaces alienate people from one another.

A film directed by Louis-Georges Carrier.

This documentary shows the early ideas about how nuclear war between the USA and the USSR could look like. It is made purely from the US side and take...

short experimental animation from Spain

Mohan is a young man who lives with his widowed mother, is in love with a young woman named Shyama, and both would like to get married. Unfortunately,...

This short film from 1958 compiles 3 short reportages on different ways kids are schooled in remote areas. To School by Boat follows children of isola...

In this adventurous yarn, a group of former Army buddies have a reunion in New Orleans and decide to go looking for buried treasure.

Part of BFI collection "Portrait of a People."

Part of BFI collection "Portrait of a People."

Part of BFI collection "They Stand Ready."