1957 Movies

Africa and Schweitzer is a rarely-seen, excellent documentary made while Albert Schweitzer was still alive. Narrated by Lowell Thomas and photographed...

A man is strangled to death and then dumped in a car.

Freedom, Nigeria's contribution to the 1957 Berlin Film Festival, was based on a play commissioned by the Moral Re-Armament Association. Based on a st...

Details of the life of Juan Ponce de León, founder of the city of San Juan and first governor of Puerto Rico.

While playing, the children start drawing on the walls of the room. A painter comes to whitewash the flat. To entertain the children, the painter pain...

A short puppet animation movie by Tadahito Mochinaga.

A short movie based on the children's story by Momoko Ishii.

1957 Jim Davis short

1957 Jim Davis short

1957 short film by Jim Davis.

Short experimental film from Spanish-Parisian art collective Equipo 57. Bright abstract paintings fill the screen, the illusion of motion or character...

The first in a series of films for the Rural Cinema Scheme in the Orkneys, it records the return to the island of Wyre of Neil Flaws, a farmer, and hi...

Propaganda short made by the French army about French women helping Algerian families.

A shorter version of Joseph Cornell's Nymphlight, an experimental film shot in New York City's Bryant Park, featuring scenes of birds, fountains, peop...

Part of BFI collection "On Yer Bike."

Part of BFI collection "Portrait of a People."

Found Footage film made up from historical films produced at DEFA.