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1956 Documentary Movies

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Night and Fog(1956)

4.1/5 (with 189 votes)

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

Directed by Alain Resnais - With Michel Bouquet

All the World's Memory(1956)

21min | Documentary
3.4/5 (with 18 votes)

Toute la mémoire du monde is a documentary about the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. It presents the building, with its processes of cataloguing and preserving all sorts of printed material, as both a monument of cultural memory and as a monstrous, alien being.

Directed by Alain Resnais - With Agnès Varda, Benigno Cacérès, François-Régis Bastide, Jacques Dumesnil, Joseph Rovan, Lucia Bosé, ...

The Silent World(1956)

3.2/5 (with 17 votes)

The Silent World is noted as one of the first films to use underwater cinematography to show the ocean depths in color. Its title derives from Cousteau's 1953 book The Silent World: A Story of Undersea Discovery and Adventure. The film was shot aboard the ship Calypso. A team of divers shot 25 kilometers of film over two years in the Mediterranean Sea, the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, of which 2.5 kilometers were included in the finished documentary.

Directed by Jacques Cousteau, Louis Malle - With Jacques Cousteau, Frédéric Dumas, Albert Falco, Jacques Ertaud

Secrets of Life(1956)

G
| 1h 10min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 7 votes)

A feature-length documentary showing the changing world of nature, the sky, the sea, the sun, planets, insects and volcanic action. A story of nature's strange and intricate designs for survival and her many methods of perpetuating life.

Directed by James Algar

Our Mr. Sun(1956)

3.6/5 (with 4 votes)

One entry in a series of films produced to make science accessible to the masses—especially children—this film describes the sun in scientific but entertaining terms.

Directed by Frank Capra - With Eddie Albert

The Animal World(1956)

NR
| 1h 22min | Documentary
3.4/5 (with 3 votes)

A documentary showcasing the world's many different animal species, both past and present.

Directed by Irwin Allen - With Theodore von Eltz

Disneyland Dream(1956)

35min | Documentary
3.0/5 (with 5 votes)

A home movie made by Robbins and Meg Barstow that documents their family's free trip to the newly opened Disneyland. The one-week trip was a prize that they won in a contest sponsored by Scotch tape.

Directed by Robbins Barstow - With Steve Martin

The House Without a Name(1956)

20min | Documentary

The House Without a Name is a 1956 short documentary film written and produced by Valentine Davies for the Motion Picture Relief Fund. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

Directed by Joe Parker

Seven Wonders of the World(1956)

1h 46min
3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

Seven Wonders of the World is a 1956 film in Cinerama. Lowell Thomas searches the world for natural and man made wonders and invites the audience to try to update the ancient Greek list of "Seven Wonders of the World.".

The Mystery of Picasso(1956)

1h 18min | Documentary
3.7/5 (with 19 votes)

Using a specially designed transparent 'canvas' to provide an unobstructed view, Picasso creates as the camera rolls. He begins with simple works that take shape after only a single brush stroke. He then progresses to more complex paintings, in which he repeatedly adds and removes elements, transforming the entire scene at will, until at last the work is complete.

Le Mariage de Monaco(1956)

31min | Documentary
3.1/5 (with 3 votes)

Exclusive footage captures the wedding of American screen star Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier of Monaco.

Directed by Jean Masson - With Grace Kelly, Rainier III, Prince of Mónaco

The True Story of the Civil War(1957)

29min | Documentary
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Documentary short about the American Civil War.

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Time Stood Still(1956)

Time Stood Still is a 1956 Warner Brothers Scope Gem travelogue, filmed the previous year in Dinkelsbühl, and presented in the wide-screen format of CinemaScope, directed by André de la Varre. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film at the 29th Academy Awards.

Directed by André de la Varre

Torero!(1957)

1h 15min | Documentary, Drama
2.8/5 (with 4 votes)

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Directed by Carlos Velo - With Luis Procuna, Carlos Arruza, Dolores del Rio, Miroslava Stern

Seven Years in Tibet(1956)

1h 19min | Documentary
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian moutain climber, escapes from a British POW camp in India and flees north across the Himalayan mountains into Tibet. There he meets and befriends the young Dalai Lama.

Directed by Hans Nieter - With Heinrich Harrer, Peter Aufschnaiter, Anton Diffring

Momma Don't Allow(1956)

3.2/5 (with 6 votes)

A night at the Wood Green Jazz Club - an example of 'Free Cinema'.

The Artist and the City(1956)

26min | Documentary
3.8/5 (with 7 votes)

The painter António Cruz wanders around the city of Porto painting what he sees: old and modern buildings, people arriving and leaving work in the factories, children playing. The impressionist realism of Cruz’s drawings dissolves into Oliveira’s vision of Porto, which at the same time portrays the painter and his work.

Directed by Manoel de Oliveira

Crashing the Water Barrier(1956)

2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

The story of Donald Campbell, son of the late Sir Malcolm Campbell, British champion auto-racer, and his efforts to survive driving a jet-powered boat at record speeds on Lake Meade, Nevada. After a number of failures at breaking the water-speed record of 216 mph, Campbell and his boat, the 'Bluebird', set a new record by, at times, breaking 250 mph.

Directed by Konstantin Kalser - With Knox Manning, Donald Campbell, Malcolm Campbell

The Naked Eye(1956)

1h 11min | Documentary

The Naked Eye is a 1956 American documentary film about the history of photography directed by Louis Clyde Stoumen. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

Kein Platz für wilde Tiere(1956)

1h 19min | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 1 vote)

Directed by Bernhard Grzimek & Michael Grzimek.

A City Decides(1956)

27min | Documentary
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

A City Decides chronicles the events that led to the integration of the St. Louis public schools in 1954. An Oscar-nominated short documentary from 1956.

Directed by Charles Guggenheim

The Dark Wave(1956)

23min | Documentary

A young girl, played by Pamela Beaird, normal in every way is affected with severe epilepsy. What happens, in regard to her parents and school friends and their reactions, is shown. In addition, an explanation of the affliction and a demonstration of the treatment involved, both physically and psychologically, are detailed.

Directed by Jean Negulesco

Léon la lune(1956)

16min | Documentary
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

The film documents an old drifter in Paris in the poetic realist style.

Directed by Alain Jessua

I Never Forget a Face(1956)

2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

This Warner Bros. vignette features short snippets about well known people. It includes presidential candidate Warren Harding and his front porch campaign in his home town of Marion, Ohio where Al Jolson sang to the crowd; his successor, Calvin Coolidge; William Jennings Bryan at the 1920 Democratic convention where FDR was selected as the Vice Presidential candidate; the visit of the Prince of Wales; the so-called monkey trial that pitted Clarence Darrow against Bryan; Richard Bird as he trained for his flight over the North Pole; and finally George Bernard Shaw on a visit to America.

Directed by Robert Youngson

Gotoma the Buddha(1957)

3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

This Indian documentary had its world premiere in Paris. Told simply and straightforwardly, the film traces the life of Buddha, from humble priest to religious icon. The central character's search for wisdom and inner peace may not seem like ideal visual fare, but director Rajbana Khanna makes it so. Emphasis is placed upon Buddha's relationship with the land, conveyed by lyrical shots of India's vast and varied terrain. Prior to its official release, Gotoma the Buddha was feted with a "special mention" at the 1957 Cannes Film Festival; few viewers will hold it in lesser esteem.

Directed by Rajbans Khanna

Assignment: Venezuela(1956)

24min | Documentary
1.5/5 (with 1 vote)

An American goes to work in the booming oil industry of Venuzuela.

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