Documentary Short Movies

Opening with sledge loads of holiday makers leaving the hotel shown afterwards careering along the roadway through beautiful winter landscape....

1901, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Travelogue produced by Burton Holmes. Released on January 7th, 1918.

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

“Are you a man, or a woman?” In a world built on binaries, this is the question every trans soul must learn to answer—again and...

Poor pedestrian, horse drawn carts, wagons and bus travel across bridge at Sunderland, Tyne and Wear.

Svalbard is a norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean where the world's northernmost city is situated. It is a place where the underground,...

The siren call of the ivory-billed woodpecker lures a New York based tantra and sex educator into the swamps of the American South on a 17-year...

Released in February of 1922. Produced by Frederick Burlingham.

Produced by Burton Holmes. Released on June 8th, 1919.

An alternative version of the film 'Southern Peaks', shortened in this case to be included in an episode of the series 'Glimpses of New Zealand'....

Two Serbian cinematography students set out to follow the longest relay in history, through protests, blockades, and a line of memories, tracing back...

Filmed from the Brooklyn tower of the bridge, this is a panorama starting at Manhattan's Battery and then panning northward along the East River...

"During the 1927, AGM Geddes on behalf of the Huts Committee, gave the report on the progress made on the completion of the Club's first hut, the Fay...

A filmmaker reconnects with an old friend, quietly revealing the distance time can create.

Devastated by her best friend's suicide, a young Lakota woman creates a girls' boxing team with urgent hope that sport, sisterhood and tradition will...

This film about Library services in Australia shows some of the work of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Library, the National Library with its varied...

Internationale Bergrettungstagung in Tirol 1948 is a documentary about mountain rescue that takes place in the Ötztal Alps. It was produced in...

Bryan Charles Kimes has a lot to say, but the power of language escapes him. Lost in a public-school system that does not suit his needs, his parents...

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.