Documentary Short Movies

Geisha performance, with umbrella and fans, in Kyoto.

Tardigrades—tiny creatures just one millimeter in size—exhibit extraordinary adaptability.

This short film from the Perspective series highlights social and economic development in Haiti circa 1957. It depicts customs and traditions used to...

Sainath, age 25, is a film student in Pune, India and his grandmother, Sunila, age 80, lives far afield in the village of Merces in Goa, India. They...

The Making of Amarillo Ramp documents the construction of Robert Smithson's earthwork Amarillo Ramp. At age thirty-five, while photographing the...

An interview with Caroline Munro about the making of Maniac.

Desert Killer is a 1952 short film directed by Larry Lansburgh about a hunter tracking a sheep-killing mountain lion. The film was nominated for an...

Cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

A short documentary featuring an interview with director Jörg Buttgereit.

A visit to Nassau in the Bahamas from Andre de la Varre's "The Screen Traveler" series.

A picture of life in the South Australian capital of Adelaide in the mid 1960s, social, commercial and recreational.

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

In the void created ad hoc to throw us into desperation, fear, shock, the torment of an infinite present, Arto Lindsay sings with words, silences and...

Forced to flee Vietnam as a child, Chung Truong went on to create a beautiful life and family in the US. But as career and family was settling in, an...

1924, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

Original archival synopsis: The Japanese bombed Darwin many times during World War II because it was strategically important target number one in...

The film was inspired by one of the most important documentaries shot by Krzysztof Kieślowski, Talking Heads (1980). The director asked his...

This rare silent black & white and color Super-8 footage was shot with the camera of actor Kei Sato (Hachi in the film) during the production of...

Released in June of 1921, produced by Frederick Burlingham.