1953 Movies

Documentary short (Kulturfilm) about East Frisia.

Educational short film showing various locations in Tasmania. Includes scenes of farming, as well as scenes of transport.

Scroll paintings prepared like film strips with successive images.

Jamil (P. Ramlee) is the son of a wealthy family in Kuala Lumpur who falls in love with their maid’s daughter Norma (Normadiah). His class-conscious p...

This educational film from the 1950s instructs viewers how to prepare for a class report.

This classroom training film was produced by the US government to assure kids that nuclear energy was entirely safe and could even be put to good use...

Adaptation of a Kafka short story, believed lost for more than 60 years.

A short re-telling of the classic fairytale.

Docu-drama reconstructing the real events put on screen by Josef von Sternberg in Anatahan

Short experimental film by Hy Hirsh. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with iotaCenter and National Film Preservation Foundation i...

Teens share their problems through home movies

Experimental color (two-tone) animated film with a musical score.

A look at a teacher at a one-teacher school.

A popular high school girl is the victim of malicious gossip, spread by a jilted boyfriend, and it nearly ruins her life.

a young Kurdish girl whose family has made Aliyah to Israel stitches a carpet and reminisces about her life and the experiences woven into her memory.

Explains strategy, movement of forces and important battles of the revolutionary war. Geographical, social and political factors which brought victory...

Camille is a drag parody of the 1936 Garbo classic, filmed on Fire Island with an all-male cast of local residents and friends.

From the Home Movies Collection.

A tongue-in-cheek archival film documenting a day in the life of a veteran horse-drawn carriage driver. Though the tourists that flock to the historic...