Documentary Short Movies

Released in 1901

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

1906, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Two Canadians, one Liberal and one Conservative, attend a U.S. convention focused on depolarizing politics, determined to engage in tough...

Dating from 1932, this footage is a relic filmed by British explorer Nelson Castle during an expedition to the south of South America.

Devastated by her best friend's suicide, a young Lakota woman creates a girls' boxing team with urgent hope that sport, sisterhood and tradition will...

Released in 1915, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

One man loses his son to a cocaine overdose. Grieving, Stan Marsden, a Tsimpsean wood carver decides to create a totem pole in his son's memory and...

"CATANAS POINT - A Surf Documentary" portrays the reality of the sport of surfing in Angola and compares it with what surfing was like in Brazil from...

Departure of the steamer from Interlaken, and giving throughout its entire length, a film picture of exceptional beauty. The stereoscopic effect is...

Released on September 4th, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Travelogue produced by Burton Holmes. Released on March 18th, 1918.

As queer trans and gender non-conforming children of the Vietnamese diaspora, we are fragmented at the crossroads of being displaced from not only a...

Paris, France. Franz Reichelt wearing the parachute that he designed and invented before ascending the Eiffel Tower. Reichelt stands on a platform...

Released in 1901

Legendary short story writer Lucia Berlin (1936-2004) captured moments of grace in the cafeterias and laundromats of the American Southwest, in the...

The film follows a group of growers who embrace the restorative power that the soil holds. Skin of the Earth is a story about the relationship...

On the 23rd of June 2016 Britain voted to leave the European Union. Who Are We? is a re-working of material from a BBC television debate transmitted...

The earliest 'rockumentary' of John Mayall and his musicians filmed in their homes, dressing rooms, motorways, airports, clubs, concert halls and at...

Released in 1901