1959 Movies

A film by Hy Hirsh. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with iotaCenter and National Film Preservation Foundation in 2000.

Odds & Ends is a sly comment on the collage film and Beat culture. To discarded travel and advertising footage found at a local film laboratory, Belso...

An insight into the training of recreational pilots.

A sports journalist engages in a romantic rivalry with a boxing champion.

In 1959, Dr. Guillermo Garrido-Lecca Frías, the newly appointed Minister of Public Health and Social Assistance, accepted ten thousand doses of the ne...

Tongue in cheek film begins with an American standing on Princess bridge narrating what sounds like a postcard to his mother while ogling at a passing...

In the hands of another director, the inner-workings of a magnet laboratory could have caused a whole classroom to fall asleep of boredom. No so when...

In a coastal village a faulty street lantern lands on the rubbish yard. During a storm a fishermen's boat is in trouble. The big lighthouse has fallen...

Forbidden love blossoms between the prince and princess of two kingdoms. Soon their love is complicated by the secret art of Sakawma, the craft of aut...

Not unlike the travel blogs so in vogue today, this film takes us from Ereaga beach to Cape Matxitxako, treating us to an incomparable look at the bea...

Filmed only a few months after Tatsumi Hijikata’s first explosive public butoh performance, “Gisei” features Hijikata and members of his Asbestos Hall...

In 1954, on the Moamba plateau near Leopoldville, the Catholic University of Louvain commissioned the construction of the interracial Lovanium Univers...

The short documentary film by Fritz Illing was awarded with the German Film Prize in 1960 and shows an Andalusian pilgrimage.

Ffilm starring P. Jairaj and Jabeen Jalil

1959 - a great year of success for Aston Martin winning at Le Mans, Nurburgring and the Tourist Trophy