Documentary Short Movies

Released on the 21st of September, 1919. Produced by Burton Holmes.

This short documentary tells the story the once-thriving town of Okak, an Inuit settlement on the northern Labrador coast. Moravian missionaries...

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

The peculiar trait of the cuckoo, which tricks another bird into hatching her egg for her, is shown in color photography.

Filmed in the Colorado Rockies, this film portrays the dangerous sport of mountain climbing and shows special equipment needed, together with its...

Released in July of 1902. Produced by William Nicholas Selig.

As an animatronic dinosaur park closes, its owner braces for a series of lasts

This two-part visual essay features the son of director Don Siegel, Kristoffer Tabori, who reads from his father book A Siegel Film. The bulk of the...

This mini-documentary follows Stewart McPherson's journey to Tristan da Cunha, the most remote inhabited island in the world. We meet the Tristanians...

The Algerian region of Tindouf is home to more than 170,000 Sahrawis, who have been living in refugee camps since 1976, when Morocco occupied the...

Kang Aries and Kang Oca are two cultural observers of Kujang who try to provide a justification perspective on the Kujang Philosophy made by one of...

Children of lesbian mothers talk frankly about their mothers' coming out, their own homophobia, and how they feel about being raised by lesbian...

"The role of the arts is to tear down what is evil and build up what is good." - Chinaka Hodge

A short film warning the unaware housewife of the dangers of “dry cleaning” with gasoline at home.

The sites and sounds at the 800-year-old Horenji Temple in Kyoto — electro music, English, takoyaki, a kaleidoscopic elephant — would...

A short film made for S4C and Channel 4 about the history of the whaling industry and how our view of these animals has changed over time. Winner of...

At just six years old, James Kofi Annan is sold into Ghana's fishing industry and forced to work as a child fisherman on Lake Volta. For seven years,...

A short talk on having sex in the woods.