Documentary Short Movies

Released in 1901

This very short documentary from the Hinterland Who’s Who series provides an introduction to the whooping crane.

Song of Ceylon was commissioned for the short-lived German TV-series Telekritik and broadcasted in 1975. In Telekritik documentary approaches were...

Bioscoped from a motor. The center of fashion and society in the Bernese Oberland. The rendezvous of the most cosmopolitan crowd in Europe.

The Shades of Love is an intimate journey into the loves, lives and losses of 3 sex workers in Singapore. As an ordinary day in this city unfolds,...

A Deep Dive into the life of Stephen Zivkovic, the owner of the last DVD rental store in Adelaide.

Man's need to create beauty, to interpret the world around him in image and color, has found expression in many forms, from the days of primitive...

The San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards presents Jordan Simmons, artistic director of the East Bay Center for Performing Arts, with...

A short documentary that tells the story of queer artist Heather Spooner and the adult pen pal program she created during the pandemic, featuring the...

Elizabeth "Betita" Martinez, winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2008 Community Leadership Awards (The San Francisco Foundation Award) - for...

Dr. Joseph Marshall, Jr., winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2006 Community Leadership Awards (The Robert Kirkwood Award) - for redefining youth...

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

1924, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

Documentary on the recording of the Album Una vez iniciado el fuego by Sakatumba

This very short documentary film depicts the spring and fall migratory visits of snow geese to Cap Tourmente, Québec.

Unedited film of rural shore Havana, Cuba. Footage includes scenes of the old stone buildings and lighthouse along the ocean, mountain landscapes,...

Close to Greenaway takes us behind the scenes of the first part of the trilogy The Tulse Luper's Suitcases in Barcelona and Almeria. In this film,...

The peculiar trait of the cuckoo, which tricks another bird into hatching her egg for her, is shown in color photography.

1924, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

Robert Donnell is a man with an unusual occupation. He is the Carilloneur in the Dominion of Canada Peace Tower in Ottawa. Unseen to the visitors ,...