1961 Movies

Evocation of the Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre on 10 June 1944, when 642 of its inhabitants were slaughtered by a Nazi Waffen SS company, based on a visi...

The isolation of the individual as exemplified in the plight of a woman in a Puerto Rican district of New York City.

A man is given orders by his boss to move a big redwood tree so that a new superhighway can go through. A stubborn woodpecker whose home is in the tre...

A glamorous couple’s night out takes a surreal turn when car trouble leads to an encounter with a mysterious woman by the river.

Animated drawings and photographs.

Part of BFI collection "They Stand Ready."

The legendary Higuereta estate.

Abstract animated colour film about form in rhythmical movement, undergoing constant transformation. The film is accompanied by music, composed by Sve...

Film on nuclear fallout and its potential for damage in the event of an attack on the United States. Freakishly dramatic music. Picture of people goi...

"Aqua Viva" is a visual study of color and motion through the framework of the interplay between light and water.

Portrait of a small town.

Carpet manufacturing in Glasgow.

Short "Fragezeichenfilm" about work.

This short animated film plays on the motif of the checkerboard grid in a modernist sense, i.e. favoring the formal and graphic oppositions between th...

A look at English folk dancing, including the Hobby Horse Dance and the Furry Dance.

Filmmaker Harold Liversidge’s 1963 documentation of Metzger wearing a military jacket, helmet, and gas mask while painting, flinging and spraying acid...

Soundtrack: Manuel de Falla's HOMENAJE, POUR LE TOMBEAU DE DEBUSSY and Silvestre Revueltas's PIANOS, from THE NIGHT OF THE MAYAS.

Murad is facing financial hardship, and he has no solution but to travel to his uncle to borrow some money, but there are many responsibilities that p...