1959 Movies

Members of a partisan underground unit struggle during the anti-fascist Bulgarian Resistance of World War II.

The film depicts the life of birds, in a very cold place on earth, which is the Arctic.

A double portrait of the painters Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun, seen at work in their Suffolk studio while discussing their paintings.

Unfinished, 16mm, b&w silent film directed by Maya Deren. No copy of this film exists

The focus of this film is on Canada's nuclear research centre at Chalk River, Ontario. Key to atomic progress are the radioactive isotopes. The insert...

A stop-motion animation short dealing with matchboxes.

After the murder of her lover Caesar, Egypt's queen Cleopatra needs a new ally. She seduces his probable successor Mark Antony. This develops into rea...

Television play adaptation of Vittorio Alfieri's tragedy Saul (1782).

The plot concerns two siblings, brother and sister, who live alone in an old wooden villa. A physical love relationship develops between them. The gir...

This edited Ektachrome home movie with titles documents a 1959 street fair, upper Grant Avenue, San Francisco--the center of Beat culture. The film in...

Mrs. Fazekas and her three sons live in a tenement house in the outskirts. The eldest son, Fecó, is saving money in order to buy a washing machine for...

A look at the business of beauty.

A woman in her twenties has just admitted herself to a psychiatric hospital in California. A staff doctor characterizes her behavior as antisocial and...

The operation of the Clean Air Act is explained. Records the procedure for local councils and explains the rights of individual householders.

Uncle Mao and Aunt Mao are well-known surgeons and physicians within hundreds of miles. They are kind, honest and amiable, and their medical ethics an...