Documentary Short Movies

  • 1994
    Outlaw

    Outlaw

    Outlaw

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    A video-verité manifesto made with self-identified gender outlaw, author and activist, Leslie Feinberg (1949-2014). Raw and confrontational,...

    Outlaw
  • 1899
    Panorama from the Tower of the Brooklyn Bridge

    Panorama from the Tower of the Brooklyn Bridge

    Panorama from the Tower of the Brooklyn Bridge

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    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...

    Panorama from the Tower of the Brooklyn Bridge
  • 1944
    Weekly Review No. 169 - New Zealand Soldiers and Polish Children

    Weekly Review No. 169 - New Zealand Soldiers and Polish Children

    Weekly Review No. 169 - New Zealand Soldiers and Polish Children

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    This 1944 newsreel documents arrivals at a Wellington wharf from the Middle East: New Zealand soldiers and Polish children. For the refugees it was...

    Weekly Review No. 169 - New Zealand Soldiers and Polish Children
  • 1903
    Lace Making in Alpine Village Street

    Lace Making in Alpine Village Street

    Lace Making in Alpine Village Street

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    The stalls with their keepers and stores of laces are being inspected by English and American tourists, who no doubt takeaway with them a goodly...

    Lace Making in Alpine Village Street
  • 2009
    Repainting Cuba

    Repainting Cuba

    Repainting Cuba

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    Repainting Cuba takes a critical look at communist Cuba, where both the facades and the aging regime were given a coating of colorful paint in...

    Repainting Cuba
  • 1977
    The Brontë Business

    The Brontë Business

    The Brontë Business

    01977HD

    Joan Bakewell visits Haworth in Yorkshire, home of the Brontës, to see the setting in which the novelists worked.

    The Brontë Business
  • 1975
    Chris and Bernie

    Chris and Bernie

    Chris and Bernie

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    The story of two young single mothers who join forces to make a new kind of family unit for themselves and their children.

    Chris and Bernie
  • 2023
    FIFA: A Love Letter to Rwanda

    FIFA: A Love Letter to Rwanda

    FIFA: A Love Letter to Rwanda

    02023HD

    Supermodel Adriana Lima presents a behind-the-scenes look at the FIFA congress in the Rwandan capital of Kigali in March 2023, which made Kigali the...

    FIFA: A Love Letter to Rwanda
  • 1948
    Mountain Rescue Training at Wilder Kaiser

    Mountain Rescue Training at Wilder Kaiser

    Mountain Rescue Training at Wilder Kaiser

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

    Mountain Rescue Training at Wilder Kaiser
  • 1913
    Up Mt. Blanc

    Up Mt. Blanc

    Up Mt. Blanc

    01913HD

    Views of a party making the actual ascent of this famous mountain have a much greater interest than the usual scenic film. Commencing with the...

    Up Mt. Blanc
  • 2024
    Horizon

    Horizon

    Horizon

    02024HD

    From the turtles of the Farasan Islands to the ibex that dot the Asir Mountains, this documentary captures Saudi Arabia's diverse wildlife and...

    Horizon
  • 1903
    Panorama from the Descending Car on Reichenbach Railway

    Panorama from the Descending Car on Reichenbach Railway

    Panorama from the Descending Car on Reichenbach Railway

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    Taken from the front of a descending car, the track and the way in which the fertile valleys open out on either side, with the huge snow-capped...

    Panorama from the Descending Car on Reichenbach Railway
  • 2018
    WORK

    WORK

    WORK

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    Witness the world of two sex workers in Toronto, who share their experiences in the industry and discuss the emotional labour involved in responding...

    WORK
  • 1919
    Bangkok

    Bangkok

    Bangkok

    01919HD

    Released on August 3rd, 1919.

    Bangkok
  • 1992
    Joannis Amelii, animula vagula blandula

    Joannis Amelii, animula vagula blandula

    Joannis Amelii, animula vagula blandula

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    Joannis Amelii, animula vagula blandula
  • 1907
    Prize Ski Jumping Contest

    Prize Ski Jumping Contest

    Prize Ski Jumping Contest

    01907HD

    1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

    Prize Ski Jumping Contest
  • 2025
    Shanti Rides Shotgun

    Shanti Rides Shotgun

    Shanti Rides Shotgun

    02025HD

    On Manhattan's jam-packed streets, NYC's most iconic driving instructor prepares students for the road ahead.

    Shanti Rides Shotgun
  • 2026
    Help Sondos

    Help Sondos

    Help Sondos

    02026HD

    A young Toronto drag performer launches a fundraising campaign for her friend Sondos, a young mother trying to support her family in Palestine

    Help Sondos
  • 2015
    Little Blue Box

    Little Blue Box

    Little Blue Box

    02015HD

    Some 1960s hackers known as phone phreaks found a way to avoid long-distance charges. Two of those phreaks just happened to be students named Steve...

    Little Blue Box
  • 1973
    Darger's Room

    Darger's Room

    Darger's Room

    01973HD

    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...

    Darger's Room