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9
City Out of Time
City Out of Time
This Colin Low documentary from 1959 depicts Venice in all its splendor. In the tradition of Venetian painter Canaletto, the film captures the great Italian city’s elusive beauty and ...
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10
Our Algeria
Our Algeria
"Djazaïrouna", produced by the cinema service of the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic (GPRA), is a montage film intended to inform the international community at the UN ...
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4.3
The Sword and the Flute
The Sword and the Flute
Visual images consist entirely of Indian miniature paintings, while an off-screen narrator traces the rise of this art form within the courts of Akbar (1542-1605), who united what is ...
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7
Araya
Araya
"Araya" is an old natural salt mine located in a peninsula in northeastern Venezuela which was still, by 1959, being exploited manually five hundred years after its discovery by the ...
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7
India: Matri Bhumi
India: Matri Bhumi
Several stories depicting the landscapes and fauna of India are mixed with documentary footage.
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0
Look at Life: Market Place
Look at Life: Market Place
A look into London's street markets and how they're suffering to compete with supermarkets.
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4.5
Sapovnela
Sapovnela
Amidst the hills of the ancient city of Mtskheta, an aging man nearing his hundredth year is forced to make way for a new road being paved through the blossoming garden of floral ...
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5.5
Mysteries of the Deep
Mysteries of the Deep
Mysteries of the Deep is a 1959 Disney nature documentary short film. Though not an official True-Life Adventures film, it did accompany the release of The Vanishing Prairie and was ...
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10
John Gunther’s High Road
John Gunther’s High Road
John Gunther, a great traveler in many parts of the globe, presented on the American ABC channel the documentary program "John Gunther's High Road" from September 7, 1959 to October 1, ...
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6.7
Come Back, Africa
Come Back, Africa
Come Back, Africa chronicles the life of Zachariah, a black South African living under the rule of the harsh apartheid government in 1959.
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7.3
Moi, un Noir
Moi, un Noir
Winner of the prestigious Prix Louis Delluc in 1958, "Moi, un noir" marked Jean Rouch's break with traditional ethnography, and his embrace of the collaborative and improvisatory ...
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7
Skyscraper
Skyscraper
Nominated for an Academy Award, this live-action short film playfully chronicles the construction of the Tishman Building at 666 Fifth Avenue in New York City.
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6.2
We Are the Lambeth Boys
We Are the Lambeth Boys
Seminal piece of documentary filmmaking by New Wave director Karel Reisz following the daily activities of members of the Lambeth Youth club in late-1950s London.
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6.7
The Alphabet Conspiracy
The Alphabet Conspiracy
Dr. Frank Baxter, with the help of The Mad Hatter and Jabberwock, takes young Judy exploring the world of language, in which she finds out that language is for doing more than just talking.
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5.7
Serengeti Shall Not Die
Serengeti Shall Not Die
The film tells of the beginnings of the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. At the end of the 1950s, the Tanzanian National Park Administration wanted to fence in the protected area ...
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7
Василий Суриков
Василий Суриков
Biopic of the Russian painter Vasiliy Surikov (1848 - 1916), who is best known for his depictions of historical scenes.
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10
Perilous Assignment
Perilous Assignment
"Perilous Assignment" is an episode of ABC's Walt Disney Presents. Disney loved to show viewers behind the scenes of the daring shoots of its theatrically released or TV shows. The ...
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6.9
Window Water Baby Moving
Window Water Baby Moving
On a winter's day, a woman stretches near a window then sits in a bathtub of water. She's happy. Her lover is nearby; there are close ups of her face, her pregnant belly, and his hands ...
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6.5
Disneyland ’59
Disneyland ’59
Walt Disney and Art Linkletter co-host a live celebration of Disneyland's 1959 expansion that consisted of the debuts of Matterhorn Bobsleds, the Disneyland-Alweg Monorail, and the ...
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0
Visages de bronze
Visages de bronze
The journey of a young Frenchman in the highlands and forest valleys of Ecuador and Bolivia.
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0
Huang Baomei
Huang Baomei
The film introduces the famous national model worker, textile worker Huang Baomei, who is played by the real Huang Baomei herself.
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Vues animées de l’Atelier et Collection Richard Winther
Vues animées de l’Atelier et Collection Richard Winther
An overview of the art collection of Richard Winther.