Documentary Short Movies

In 1810, 20 year old Sara Baartman got on a boat from Cape Town to London, unaware that she would never see her home again, or that she would become...

Sir Ernest Shackleton is a poignant absence in this fragment from the closing chapter in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. The...

Released in 1901.

Released on the 16th of July, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

A curious incident which happens in early summer when the cattle are taken to the high pastures for three months.

Parents talk about their gay and lesbian children, and how they came to accept their lifestyle.

Released in 1901

180 (2011) boldly confronts abortion as modern genocide. Ray Comfort uses Holocaust imagery—11 million murdered under Hitler—to expose...

A first-person account of a kid named Sidney in a town that helped him become who he is today: Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia.

Taken from the front of a descending car, the track and the way in which the fertile valleys open out on either side, with the huge snow-capped...

Gives impressions of Australia’s national capital and the life of its inhabitants. Shows government buildings and other architectural features,...

Conceived as a challenge between twin brothers, the Dick’s-A-Thon has grown into Seattle’s premiere marathon event. Participants must run...

Rae Ripple, a welder from the outskirts of West Texas transforms neglected metal into works of art and in the process finds healing from her...

In this heartfelt short film by Jesse Collier Sutterley, Roosevelt Farrow, born in 1929 at the start of the Great Depression, shares his lifelong...

Tuesdays are days of great excitement in the quiet old town of Berne, when the whole population is bent on getting very much for very little.

1901, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Harshness and beauty exist side by side in this look at the lives of sulfur mine workers and their families in southern Italy.

1905, featuring Eduard Spelterini, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

A crowd of a hundred boys rushing the position of another crowd, storming their adversaries with volleys of snowballs, finally driving the enemy from...

One call for help ignites a nationwide fight to end human trafficking. A Way Out follows Safe House Project as they confront the reality of human...