Documentary Short Movies

The Gentleman Boxer: Richard Torrez Jr. is a 30-minute candid look at the rising American heavyweight Richard Torrez Jr. (5-0, 5 KO) ahead of his...

A short documentary about a group of open-water swimmers on Long Island who gather every summer morning in Hampton Bays. Born out of the...

This 2007 behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of PERSEPOLIS features interviews with codirectors Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud as...

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

"Taken from the Swiss side of the St. Bernard Pass, 9,000 feet above the level of the sea, giving a magnificent view of the far-famed Hospice, which...

Landscapes of drained marshes and reclaimed meadows, from where scientists from the Experimental Station of the Polish Academy of Sciences in...

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Follows native life, copra harvesting, Pago Pago Harbor, and the U.S. Naval Station Tutuila in American Samoa during the early 1930s.

Travelogue produced by Burton Holmes. Released on January 14th, 1918.

Released in 1901

Set during the 30th LGBTTTIQ+ Pride March in Tijuana, this short documentary presents a queer archivist whose career as a journalist has documented...

Captured during the events of Euromaidan revolution in Kyiv, Ukraine, an expressive argument looks like something out of the movie by Sergio Leone....

Programmers, filmmakers, and attendees past and present chart the history of BFI Flare to mark its 40th anniversary, from parties to politics. ...

In 2024 Shelter North East undertook a piece of research in Newcastle, speaking to 39 individuals who were either currently sleeping rough in...

This documentary film focuses on the animal life that survives in this harsh arctic climates at the edge of the ice - from the simple algae to...

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

A portrait of the city of Zagreb, as it was in 1943.

1909, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Honorable Ronald V. Dellums, winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2005 Community Leadership Awards (Robert C. Kirkwood Award) - for his decades of...

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith