Documentary Short Movies

One man loses his son to a cocaine overdose. Grieving, Stan Marsden, a Tsimpsean wood carver decides to create a totem pole in his son's memory and...

The film shows a cuckoo caught in the act of laying an egg in the nest of two titlarks. The egg is hatched by the foster-mother, and she and her mate...

Directors Errol Morris and Werner Herzog describe and discuss the film The Act of Killing (2012).

It’s the second semester of junior year for Pierce “Sparni” Sparnroft, a gifted jazz vibraphonist studying at Montclair State...

A lyrical and haunting portrait of reindeer herding in the twilight expanses of the Lappish wilderness.

The chief event of the day at Grimsel Hospice.

'Ink and Gold: An Artist's Journey to Olympic Glory' is a short form documentary that follows the journey of New Zealand artist and athlete, Zakea...

In a sport dominated for decades by border collies and conventional thinking, an unfancied, backwater team gambles on Hustle — a tiny,...

Short film made on the production of HOWL OF THE DEVIL.

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

Dedicated “to all victims of intolerance,” "The Devil’s Toy" is a faux–public service documentary that chronicles the early...

This opens with a view of the upper falls and great viaduct of the mountain railway, showing ascending and descending cars, and then a close view of...

In this heartfelt short film by Jesse Collier Sutterley, Roosevelt Farrow, born in 1929 at the start of the Great Depression, shares his lifelong...

Released in 1901

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

A satirical archive-based portrait spanning 30 years that follows the rise of Christian cinema’s most visible presence, David A.R. White, and...

Through a series of extraordinarily honest and intimate conversations, filmmaker Aurora Brachman examines the intergenerational fallout of...

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

This short follows a day of work for an Everglades wildlife trapper catching animals for zoos around America. In this film, his assignment is to go...

Documentary film written by music critic Artemiy Troitskiy. It depicts the variety of Soviet and Baltic rock music and offers its viewer an idea that...