Documentary Short Movies

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

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

This film demystifies the complex but fascinating world of the investment business. We are given a privileged view of one of Canada's largest...

Murray Sinclair's acceptance speech for an award in honor of his role as chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, intercut with...

Chomsky on the media treatment of the Indonesian invasion of East Timor and Pol Pot's atrocities in Cambodia

A satire on celebrity with a cacophony of gossip merchants, publicists, and “a host of stars.”

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

An interview with British film director Mike Leigh produced for BBC-TV.

Joan Braderman talks about and appears in front of a projected version of the soap opera Dynasty.

1924, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

It is an investigation into the loaded, transforming topography that is already palpable in the landscape, before we actually understand what...

Exploration on the Aletsch Glacier, Switzerland. Starting from the station at Jungfraujoch we climb up toward the Glacier, which is 14 miles long and...

Jean des Bossons is a documentary-fiction which recounts the activities of a high mountain guide in 1947. Around Chamonix Mont-Blanc, the guide Jean...

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...

1923, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

Reclaiming what was once stolen from him, a man journeys back to the place of his childhood nearly 80 years after his world came crashing down.

Amidst harsh winter conditions, Patagonia Park Argentina’s rewilding team works to dismantle deadly fences – enabling guanacos to...

Grimsel was the scene of the Austrian-French conflict of 1799. It is now one of the most popular passes in the Alps.