Documentary Short Movies

2022
The Making of Crime Scenes
The Making of Crime Scenes
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A film producer, an assassin, and a patriot. These aren’t three characters in this film but three ways of describing Wu Dun, a member of the...
1970
Call the Usual Suspects: The Craft of the Character Actor
Call the Usual Suspects: The Craft of the Character Actor
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A documentary on classic character actors
1935
Kristallen en Kleur
Kristallen en Kleur
01935HD
The crystallization processes of various chemicals which are visible only through the microscope are shown using time-lapse acceleration at times.
2020
Bottled Songs: The Observer
Bottled Songs: The Observer
02020HD
A researcher finds a phone video showing hundreds of ISIS captives running through a desert. She is puzzled that the video is posted on YouTube by...
2019
Shelter
Shelter
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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.
2020
The Settlers’ Billionaire Backer
The Settlers’ Billionaire Backer
02020HD
An investigation by BBC News Arabic into Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, who controls companies that have donated $100m to Elad, a settler...
1994
Identity Portraits: Janice and Paula
Identity Portraits: Janice and Paula
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A loving portrait of two motorcycle-riding lesbians.
2020
Childhood on Fire
Childhood on Fire
02020HD
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...
2020
Zigeuner-Boxer
Zigeuner-Boxer
02020HD
1977
Penelope 77
Penelope 77
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An experimental short where the filmmaker considers her personal relationship with intimacy, sexuality and the male gaze.
2020
The Sacrifice Zone
The Sacrifice Zone
02020HD
A POC-led community group’s fight for environmental justice in the Ironbound community of Newark, New Jersey.
2020
The Stream X
The Stream X
02020HD
In the man-made waterways of rice paddies, the water in nature must follow artificial rules. In that way, nature is made abstract, giving rise to a...
1970
Reza Urbana: the craft of the healers in Salvador, Bahia
Reza Urbana: the craft of the healers in Salvador, Bahia
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The web documentary Reza Urbana is an audiovisual section of the routine of some rezadeiras found in Salvador, and shows how important the...
1993
Belfast Boxers
Belfast Boxers
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Why box? Is it the thrill of competition, or the lure of commercial riches, the chance to compete at the Olympics, or a simple need to test oneself....
2014
put the goat in the goat boat
put the goat in the goat boat
02014HD
“Let’s think of nature as a big room. Nature is a room you know you’ll have to leave some day, most likely not by choice”....
2018
Nonoko/Kaos No Ma
Nonoko/Kaos No Ma
02018HD
Dancer Nonoko Sato at Gallery Kaos No Ma in Kyoto. Shot in ambient light on 30 year old Kodachrome and developed in Caffenol, each frame of the film...
2019
Leaders of the World, Servants of Business: A History of the G7
Leaders of the World, Servants of Business: A History of the G7
02019HD
Made from the official photos and declarations of the G7 summits. 40 years of celebrating economic growth.
1938
Animal Studies in the Social Modification of Organically Motivated Behavior
Animal Studies in the Social Modification of Organically Motivated Behavior
01938HD
A record-instructional film showing a few of the many ways in which the behaviour of hungry rats can be modified according to the nature of the...
1945
Giant Killers: The Story of the ELCO PT Boats
Giant Killers: The Story of the ELCO PT Boats
01945HD
PT Boat Video by ELCO during World War II.
1944
Nocturnal Fantasia (I See Everything)
Nocturnal Fantasia (I See Everything)
01944HD
A study of nocturnal butterflies and their mating habits.