Documentary Short Movies

  • 2025
    Smallpox Island

    Smallpox Island

    Smallpox Island

    02025HD

    Three people reckon with the legacy and impact of a tragic historical site with roots in their city. Meanwhile, a medium from out of town visits the...

    Smallpox Island
  • 2017
    I'll Never Forget the Last Time

    I'll Never Forget the Last Time

    I'll Never Forget the Last Time

    02017HD

    A movie that portrays a reflection about sense of being self, to love and to be loved.

    I'll Never Forget the Last Time
  • 2022
    Honeybee

    Honeybee

    Honeybee

    02022HD

    Before Apis is strong enough to fly, this tiny hardworking honeybee takes care of her hive and protects it. Follow her journey as she takes to the...

    Honeybee
  • 1950
    Canterbury is a Hundred

    Canterbury is a Hundred

    Canterbury is a Hundred

    01950HD

    The film 'Canterbury is One Hundred' was produced by the National Film Unit in 1950 to celebrate the region's centennial. Written and directed by...

    Canterbury is a Hundred
  • 1970
    Michael Franti - The San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards

    Michael Franti - The San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards

    Michael Franti - The San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards

    01970HD

    Michael Franti, winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2009 Community Leadership Awards (the Helen Crocker Russell Award) - artist, activist, founder...

    Michael Franti - The San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards
  • 1970
    To See One's Self

    To See One's Self

    To See One's Self

    01970HD

    Born in Ozan, Arkansas in 1933, White traveled the world observing and documenting the Black experience from Nigeria to France to Chicago. He arrived...

    To See One's Self
  • 1970
    Feeling Asian American

    Feeling Asian American

    Feeling Asian American

    01970HD

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

    Feeling Asian American
  • 2023
    Pomological

    Pomological

    Pomological

    02023HD

    In 1886, the United States Department of Agriculture ambitiously commissioned watercolour illustrations of over 3,000 fruit cultivars. In 2019, this...

    Pomological
  • 1917
    Midwinter Sports in Quebec

    Midwinter Sports in Quebec

    Midwinter Sports in Quebec

    01917HD

    Quebec stands 200 feet above the lower town, dominating the entire landscape. Along Duffern Terrace there runs the toboggan slide, which at night is...

    Midwinter Sports in Quebec
  • 1917
    East of Suez

    East of Suez

    East of Suez

    01917HD

    "As you loll comfortably on the deck, your steamer approaches the Suez Canal and you enter this interesting stretch of water at Port Said. You land...

    East of Suez
  • 1992
    The Wrecking of Old Comiskey Park

    The Wrecking of Old Comiskey Park

    The Wrecking of Old Comiskey Park

    71992HD

    A poetic tapestry eulogizing Chicago's famed "Old" Comiskey Park.

    The Wrecking of Old Comiskey Park
  • 1975
    Chris and Bernie

    Chris and Bernie

    Chris and Bernie

    7.51975HD

    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
  • 1903
    Ski Racing Up and Down Hill

    Ski Racing Up and Down Hill

    Ski Racing Up and Down Hill

    01903HD

    1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

    Ski Racing Up and Down Hill
  • 1972
    La chambre

    La chambre

    La chambre

    5.41972HD

    Akerman, by using 360° camera pans, explores the space of a small room like a succession of still lifes : a chair, fruits on a table, solitary...

    La chambre
  • 2021
    Honour to Senator Murray Sinclair

    Honour to Senator Murray Sinclair

    Honour to Senator Murray Sinclair

    92021HD

    Murray Sinclair's acceptance speech for an award in honor of his role as chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, intercut with...

    Honour to Senator Murray Sinclair
  • 1937
    Somersetshire Dairy-Farming

    Somersetshire Dairy-Farming

    Somersetshire Dairy-Farming

    01937HD

    A close-up on Somerset's changing milk and cheese industry

    Somersetshire Dairy-Farming
  • 1918
    The Riviera of Lac Leman

    The Riviera of Lac Leman

    The Riviera of Lac Leman

    01918HD

    Released in 1918, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

    The Riviera of Lac Leman
  • 1903
    Lace Making in Alpine Village Street

    Lace Making in Alpine Village Street

    Lace Making in Alpine Village Street

    01903HD

    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
  • 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

    01903HD

    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
  • 2012
    More Than Love

    More Than Love

    More Than Love

    02012HD

    A program on the relationship between the filmmaking couple Larisa Sheptiko and Elim Klimov.

    More Than Love