Most Viewed Year 1958 - 142

A brief essay on the ecology of a forest along the Laurentian Shield, in Quebec [caption taken from the NFB app].

Directed by Madhav Velankar. With Master Vithal, Hansa Wadkar, Raja Gosavi.

Directed by Shantaram Athavale.

Look back at 1950's innovations in cosmetics with this colourful archive footage of an old fashioned beautician demonstrating the process of mixing...

Short film about Stephan, a child with disabilities.

Sakpata is one of the main deities of the "Vodoun" pantheon in Benin (Dahomey at the time of filming, in 1958). Initiation into the cult of the...

This is a picture that paints a picture, in appealing colour, of the life and times of the children of late '50s London.

An old woodcarver lives alone in the forest while a deer wanders around nearby.

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

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

“In Wo-Da-Vor-Bei the syllables comprising the title are…worked over until they are more like images, structures, or abstract figures...

This Jam Handy-produced short goes through every conceivable way a human being could hurt themselves.

White Nights, by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

How to handle promotions in the workplace. One of a series on "Office Supervisor's Problems".

Randomly spliced pieces of a newsreel featuring notable news from 1946.

"An 80-year-old priest who religiously reads L´Equipe because of his commitment to cycling is a good start to a film. If, in addition, that...

Dramatizes the work of the Department of Health in dealing with unsanitary living conditions, accidents, contagious disease and the danger of...

Children watch Siamese fighting fish and the Egyptian mouth breeder in aquariums. They witness the reproductive processes of these fish.