1958 Movies

Gianfranco Mingozzi's first short film.

The struggles of teenagers trying to gain more agency over their lives.

Basic makeup and health advice for high schoolers.

The issue of popularity, specifically amongst the high school set, is dramatized. Updated from the original.

Next to the Venice of canals, palaces and squares, in Marghera there is a modern Venice made up of factories and industries.

In this leftist short named after a French military unit in the Algeria War, a youth who had been called up returns to his hometown and tries to enjoy...

St. Mary's Altar, stolen by the German occupier during the Second World War and hidden in Nuremberg, returned to Cracow in 1946. Thanks to conservator...

This short unedited film largely documents travel, tourist attractions some of the people encountered during Sir Clarmont Skrine’s time in the region....

Architects Peter McIntyre and Robin Boyd survey the construction techniques and styles employed through Melbourne’s first century, casting a subtly cr...

Working in the yard of his old primary school, a plumber recalls his schooldays and in particular his best friend Jérôme. Poignant memories because Jé...

The 14th Dalai Lama during his final Geshe (Doctor of Divinity) examinations in Lhasa, Tibet which took place from the summer of 1958 to February 1959...

A Hokkien period opera film based on a popular Chinese story about Tang Dynasty General Guo Ziyi’s son, Guo Ai, who rebukes his wife, Princess Sheng P...

Documentary from 1958 about Norwegian sailors and shipping.

A documentary feature with Basil Spence explaining, with the aid of a model, the concepts behind the design of the new Coventry Cathedral to replace t...

A documentary feature explaining the principles of Schlieren photography, which makes any phenomenon that changes the refractive index of transparent...

A documentary looking at the construction of the sphere to contain a nuclear reactor. The research programme carried out at the Thornton Research Cent...