Documentary Short Movies

Cristiane Jordan, or Cris Negão, as she was called, was a transvestite who worked as a bawd in downtown of São Paulo known by her...

The passionate advocates of the ‘Cigar Box Guitar Revolution’ express their love of making unique hand-made instruments and the...

With depth, intimacy, and humor, FLOAT! captures filmmaker Azza Cohen's magnetic grandma’s life-affirming journey learning to swim at 82,...

In 1945, Allied troops invaded Germany and liberated Nazi death camps. They found unspeakable horrors which still haunt the world’s conscience....

The first documentary of Frank Thring’s Cities of the Empire series, this episode is about Melbourne in Victoria. It shows the city’s...

A group of Miskito Indians use Nicaraguan child soldiers in their resistance against the Sandinistas.

The official Rocky Mountain National Park Centennial film. The stunning cinematography will take you on a journey into Rocky Mountain National...

A short documentary film about how a last-minute news story is incorporated into a newspaper’s printing process.

As the AIDS epidemic was spreading in 1987, the Swedish government commissioned Roy Andersson to make an educational film about the disease. In these...

This documentary features candid studio conversations with people of diverse backgrounds from the Erika Lust community. They share personal...

Tradewinds in an intimate portrait and examination of the life of CHamoru jazz pianist, Patrick Palomo, whose musical style has combined CHamoru...

Making of the cinematographic shooting of "Premier de cordée" directed by Louis Daquin in the Mont-Blanc massif. In 1943. Alain Pol films the...

L'Appel Des Cimes, directed by Alain Pol, is a documentary commissioned by the CAF and the various French ministries on the practice of post-war...

Bees are one of the most important species on the planet. A look at the trials and tribulations of two particular honeybees over two years from birth...

Feeling Asian American explores the emotional journeys of five individuals, who navigated their way through their own racial reckonings in the face...

The film takes us to the North of England to follow the migration of the black-headed gull down to London. There, the narrator asks viewers to...

The private Joan Crawford fought as hard to create a normal family life as she did to establish her career. She forged her own path and to that end...

In the heart of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, there's a grocery store unlike any other. A down-to-earth, high-energy, family-run institution where the...

The 'Unusual Occupations' series of theatrical short subjects was produced by Jerry Fairbanks Studios and released by Paramount Pictures from 1937...