Most Viewed Year 1961

A short puppet animation movie by Kazuhiko Watanabe.

Film on nuclear fallout and its potential for damage in the event of an attack on the United States. Freakishly dramatic music. Picture of people...

Documentary abou fugitives from East Berlin.

Mondo documentary.

Part of BFI collection "Portrait of a People."

Part of BFI collection "They Stand Ready."

America comes to Brighton as three beatniks hang out, listen to records and smoke before strange hats appear out of nowhere and a cartoon bubble...

One of the most characteristic elements in DivEdCo's films was the resolution of conflict through dialogue. This is the case in Belén, where...

Egyptian film shot by Salah al-Tuhami.

Some thieves leave a chest of jewels in a cave. Sidney the Elephant is looking to get out of the rainstorm and goes into the cave.

A Modern Madcap animated short from Famous Studios.

Bruce Baillie's Mr. Hayashi might be thought of as a putative East Coast story transformed by a West Coast sensibility. The narrative, slight as it...

The penalties of taking conscious risks are emphasized in three stories of casualties. A heavy load slips, a slippery floor, alighting from a moving...

Documentary short directed by Gerald Cockson.

The film uses slides - photographic planes - which show different surfaces and finishes of a wall, which have been erroded by time. Kren stacks the...

Short Bulgarian documentary shown at Cannes 1961.

Hashimoto is a Japanese house mouse. He teaches his son how to fish, not because they like fish, but because the cat does. If the cat isn't hungry,...

The director recounts his disastrous expedition to Antarctica.

Documentary about Don Quijote's routes.