Documentary Short Movies

Released in January of 1921. Produced by Frederick Burlingham.

Travelogue released on September 25th, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Kakuma means "middle of nowhere." It's also where Mo Jabari is from, a refugee camp in Kenya where seasons were sandstorms and survival was not a...

Sandra rummages in the fragments of her memory and photographs in order to reconstruct the portrait of the life and death of her brother.

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...

Through a series of extraordinarily honest and intimate conversations, filmmaker Aurora Brachman examines the intergenerational fallout of...

Released on April 11, 1920. Directed & produced by Burton Holmes.

On September 28th, 1903, the Urban Mountaineering Expedition, headed by Frank Ormiston-Smith, left Zermatt to attempt the conquest of the Matterhorn....

Water Birds is a 1952 short documentary film directed by Ben Sharpsteen. The film delves into the still waters of lagoons and marshes to the wild...

Released on August 3rd, 1919.

A documentary that follows the recording process over three days and nights of "(I'll Love You) Till the End of the World" by Nick Cave and the Bad...

The story of The Beatles' last song featuring exclusive footage and commentary.

Mark Thompson Ashworth discusses the 1966 film "The Third Eye "( or "Il Terzo Occhio"), and its cast and crew, pointing out key figures, including...

Snow is precarious, unstable, elusive. Its aesthetic and symbolic register often refer to notions of the romantic. Snow reduces the colour palette...

1924, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

A documentary of classified military footage released by WikiLeaks showing an attack by the US military in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad. This...

As the Himalayan glaciers vanish, a cellist and a Bhutanese folk singer come together across cultures and generations to honour an ancient story...

Explores the $10 billion JWST's engineering and construction process, historic Dec. 25, 2021 launch, and the release of its first full-color,...