1956 Movies

This short film presented by the Reynolds Metals Company details how aluminum is manufactured and illustrates the seemingly endless uses of this versa...

A German Film Award silver medal Peruvian travelogue.

This film explains the methods and techniques used by the communists to seize power in a country.

A documentary film from 1956 made by the Malayan Film Unit about Temiar culture. It was filmed in the area around Grik in Perak. The actors who play t...

Merchant Hu Li and his son Yun Guang took the opportunity of a business trip to Singapore to find a suitable match for each other. Li intended to intr...

Documentary. Directed and produced by Edward Movius. Filmed in Peru and the United States during the voyage of the submarines Lobo and Tiburón.

The Portuguese Youth Sailing Center.

A Burmah-Shell–sponsored “Life in India” documentary, directed by Fali Billimoria, portraying a Travancore fishing family’s work and home life, with a...

Documentary on the Pan Am Flight 6 ocean landing and the rescue by the Coast Guard.

1956 / Keadilan Ilahi / Divine Justice / K. M. Basker / Malay Film Productions

Bollywood 1956

Short film by Marie-Anne Colson-Malleville.

Documentary with narrative segments. Directed by Emilio Herman Stava. Produced by José María Roselló.

The passing out parade of the first Nigerian women's police. Also shows the policewomen on duty.

A boy takes his girlfriend to the Battersea Pleasure Garden, then to Farnborough to watch Britain's latest aircraft.

Guntur, a boxer, checks into a hotel on the day before his match, with his coach. In the hotel, Guntur stays in a room next to Udel and his wife. To s...