Documentary Short Movies

1924, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

Man's need to create beauty, to interpret the world around him in image and color, has found expression in many forms, from the days of primitive...

The stalls with their keepers and stores of laces are being inspected by English and American tourists, who no doubt takeaway with them a goodly...

Released in 1901

Painlevé’s first film on animal behavior, focusing on the Hermit Crab. On this film we see the Hermit Crab trying to find shelter.

Released on July 27th, 1919.

Dave Meslin, a 47-year-old Canadian activist, is known for his campaigns to defend public space from commercial interests. For 15 years, he has been...

An aspiring filmmaker interrogates her father, a seasoned director stuck in creative limbo, about his unfinished project - an investigative...

She accused the leader of the Sandinista revolution of sexual abuse. Now he is president of Nicaragua and she lives in exile.

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Swiss lace is world famed, and much of the best of it is produced by the busy hands of the inhabitants of this pretty Swiss village.

When temporary solutions become the status quo, who gets left behind? A Stop Gap Measure follows disability activist Luke Anderson in his fight for...

1909, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

A short version of the film 'A la conquête des cimes' by René Moreau released for the domestic market in two Pathe Baby big reels. In...

About the black community in Ladbroke Grove and Notting Hill which grew up in the 1950s. “No Irish, no coloured, no dogs" read the rooms-to-let...

A television documentary about miners: the reality of their work versus how it is made to look and sound in the public sphere.

A short documentary on life in Iceland.

Seven months after the death of Washington State quarterback Tyler Hilinski, his parents cope with their grief and memories.

Released in 1901