1957 Movies

Educational short

Adults must provide teenagers with guidance in social skills if they are to make a harmonious adjustment to social life. The mother and daughter in th...

The story of Dave, an emotionally unstable adolescent who cannot accept that his girlfriend has quit going steady with him and the football coach has...

Driven by his attraction to Layonsari, the King orders his adopted son, Jayaprana, who is Layonsari's husband, to go far away to battle insurgents. Me...

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.

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...

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."