Documentary Short Movies

When temporary solutions become the status quo, who gets left behind? A Stop Gap Measure follows disability activist Luke Anderson in his fight for...

The ascent of the Zinalrothorn filmed by Frederick Burlingham in September 1916. Burlingham, known at the time as 'The man who kinematographed the...

Documentary about a man remembering his struggles while floating on a boat down a river.

A year has passed since the attacks on the Nord Stream gas pipelines, and it is still unclear what actually happened at the bottom of the Baltic Sea...

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

The director’s mother, Mirka Mora, avoided Auschwitz by one day. On his father’s side many perished in the Holocaust. These facts...

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...

Afatasi The Artist is a San Francisco based mixed-media conceptual artist and futurist. Her artwork—which includes textiles and fine art...

A brief mockumentary about a suburban thug dressed as Spider Man, the self proclaimed hero of the streets, Gangster Man.

Short documentary written, directed and edited by Aleksandar Ilić. It won the Special Jury Prize at the Krakow Film Festival.

Released in June of 1921, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

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

Cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

George Stoney investigates the living conditions, both good and bad, in the rural, segregated South.

Celebrate the films that redefined animation, influenced culture and brought Spider-Man into all new dimensions as the filmmakers, journalists and...

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Released in 1901

The ascent of the Matterhorn by the Hornli Ridge, filmed in July 1913 by Frederick Burlingham. The team, composed of Burlingham and four mountain...

...where the whole expedition, by the breaking of an ice cornice on the summit, escaped death by a hair's breadth. The miraculous escape is recorded...