Documentary Short Movies

A Ghanaian maintenance technician at a Virginia retirement community dreams of becoming an American citizen to provide a better life for his family....

1. Mooring Cattle on Barges. Preparatory to shipping them to Constantinople. 2. Taking Cattle off to the Steamer. Towing the laden barges through the...

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

The sacred and the profane are explored through the dialectic between sacred images and the world of BDSM when we meet Guilherme and his fetishist...

Life in Australia: Hobart shows scenes illustrating daily life, industry, recreation and the tourist features of Hobart, Tasmania.

Released in 1901

Strangers in the Dark is an experimental film about how light pollution makes a glow-worm’s love life a living hell. Combining different...

Documentary about the Watts Towers. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2009.

Anna Zett collages mostly unreleased footage from the Berlin Archive of the GDR-Opposition into a pulsating short film thriller. The film opens up an...

A program on the relationship between the filmmaking couple Larisa Sheptiko and Elim Klimov.

The first and last glimpse into the universe of iconic Spanish sculptor Xavier Corberó since his passing in 2017. A kaleidoscopic life and...

Shows the relationship of the Constitution to organized labor. Presents the case of Whitaker et al. v. North Carolina, in which a group of unions...

This short 1949 documentary studies the impact Canada's National Health Program has had on people who might otherwise not had been able to obtain...

A film shot in the early 1930s and revised in 1952 which covers Moscow, the tribal areas of the Caucasus Mountains, avant-garde and Jewish theatre...

Along this goal to ski all fifty of "The Fifty Classic Ski Descents of North America", there lies a few cruxes. A few lines that stand out as the...

Low-level narcotics offenders too often cycle in and out of jail, re-offending soon after they hit the streets. District Attorney Kamala D. Harris...

Born in Ozan, Arkansas in 1933, White traveled the world observing and documenting the Black experience from Nigeria to France to Chicago. He arrived...

Football or Soccer has had an interesting journey in America but one thing is for certain, there would be no Beckham, Rooney or Ibrahimovic in the...

Before Apis is strong enough to fly, this tiny hardworking honeybee takes care of her hive and protects it. Follow her journey as she takes to the...