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 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...

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."

Part of BFI collection "Roll Out the Barrel".

The purpose of this journey, the longest road trip ever made, was to provide an appropriate first impression of Africa today. The occasion was the ope...

An experiment in the creative use of colour visuals, natural sound and dialogue commentary, this film shows the loneliness of the aimless wanderers in...