Documentary Short Movies

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

1905, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Opening with sledge loads of holiday makers leaving the hotel shown afterwards careering along the roadway through beautiful winter landscape....

The nightingale and its song, its habitat, nest eggs and young.

In this featurette, ART + COM members join the cast and crew of the show to discuss its factual basis and the development of the court case.

A community of Armenians, refugees from the Soviet Union during the Baku pogroms, live in a deep American province. Baku life, Armenian blood, Soviet...

Released in 1901

1909, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

The ascent of the Zinalrothorn filmed by Frederick Burlingham in September 1916. Burlingham, known at the time as 'The man who kinematographed the...

The film was produced by Jerome Hill as 'a document of skiing according to the principles of Hannes Schneider.' It features Otto Lang, director of...

A filmmaker reconnects with an old friend, quietly revealing the distance time can create.

A road safety film for pedestrians in city traffic. Demonstrates typical unsafe practices.

Short documentary about the lives of three girls and the women who rescued them from retrogressive cultural practices in their own Maasai community...

This short documentary shows the reactions of European immigrants as they land in Halifax at the beginning of the 1960s. From the port, we follow...

1906, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

A picture of life in the Tasmanian town of Launceston in the mid 1960s.

Sex is a taboo topic in China, even though China is a large importer of the Japanese Adult Video (AV) industry. What happens when a Japanese adult...

1906, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

1924, produced by Frederick Burlingham.