Documentary Short Movies

The life of the inhabitants of a shelter near Moscow for people in a crisis situation: women with young children, the homeless, victims of abuse.

A short talk on having sex in the woods.

A father has been fighting for the rights of his daughter since she consumed tainted milk powder, yet fails to be understood. With a focus on the...

The Flight of the Condor traces the global circulation of the melody “El Condor Pasa”: from the Andes mountains to global metropoles;...

When Nick Hurndon was six years old he and his two older brothers were set on fire by their stepfather in their San Francisco home. Now in his early...

Explores the role of the cabinetmaker in colonial America, including the tools and technology used to carve table legs, wooden hinges, and more.

Aria Dean explores the black creative labour put into memes, images defined not by their content but by how they are circulated, mutated and...

An insightful study of Filipino American family dynamics and psychologies, SILENT SACRIFICES delves into the cultural conflicts Filipino immigrants...

A short, sharp, shock of a documentary detailing treatments for hysteria in Victorian Britain including clitoridectomy and genital massage. Not for...

How young children must behave to avoid transmitting germs to one another.

A display of a fallen red cedar at Olympic National Park headquarters proclaims in 1349 "Indians live here." TREE BEGINS LIFE INDIANS STILL LIVE HERE...

Documentary about Montreal, old French city and modern metropolis. Thanks to its secular churches, its old houses, its old markets, Montreal retains...

Made as part of the compaign against the Industrial Relations Bill. A trade unionist talks about the crisis he sees in the working classes. The...

Each of the stories celebrates pioneers of a national movement to engage encore workers, adults age 50+, in solving problems, meeting important...

A short documentary charting the construction of the BBC Crystal Palace Television Tower.

Taraz is the largest modern city in the south of Kazakhstan. Few people know that its history goes back more than one and a half thousand years. The...

A conversation with an author.

This story is set against the backdrop of a same-sex love murder case during the Japanese colonial period and contemporary Kaohsiung. It pieces...

An informative short film from Thames Water providing an in depth look at their operations and how they supply water from the Thames River for a...