Documentary Short Movies

A look at the unusual process used in the making of the film Shortbus (2006) featuring interviews, behind the scenes footage and clips from the...

At the height of the AIDS crisis, many gay men sold their life insurance policies to investors for quick cash. This documentary charts the rise and...

Known also as 'The Crystal Ascension', the film chronicles an exploration of Mount Hood and its glaciers by a mountain-climbing party who explore the...

Pelicans frolic around and in a pool. A keeper comes to feed them.

A behind-the-scenes featurette explaining the process to make new Coraline puppets fifteen years after the film's release.

Soccer champion and women’s sports advocate Ashlyn Harris is telling her full story for the first time ever, sharing her triumphs and defeats...

A documentary short following director Jean-Luc Godard on the set of Contempt.

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

A 1930s geography lesson on dairy farming, around the pasturelands of Wixenford Farm near Plymouth.

An intimate behind the scenes short film while shooting the Black Adder special Back and Forth.

Filmed at Henry Darger's apartment on a Super 8 camera by filmmakers Coleen Fitzgibbon, and Michael S. Thompson late spring 1973 in Chicago, IL. The...

An NHS nurse of twenty years reflects on a challenging and strenuous career as time dwindles to her retirement.

short documentary film on an Icelandic whaling station

Moscow, January 1948. In the bitter cold, a large crowd attends the State Funeral of the Yiddish actor and director Solomon Mikhoels. An official...

A man wanders around an abandoned hospital. Years after their last encounter, someone whose life he saved seeks him out in his old office, so that...

Forced to flee Vietnam as a child, Chung Truong went on to create a beautiful life and family in the US. But as career and family was settling in, an...

Le chant du Styrène is a 1958 French documentary film directed by Alain Resnais. The film was an order by French industrial group Pechiney to...

For nearly 10 years, Belarus has had a Shelter — place for women victims of domestic violence. This is a big private house in Minsk. Many...

Join international snowboard professionals - Gigi Rüf , Elias Elhardt, Kazu Kokubo and Toni Kerkela - on their journey around the globe to...

Sex. Something that is part of human nature. Everyone does it and strives to have their happily ever after… Right? In a society where...