Documentary Short Movies

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Released in 1915, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

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...

Bioscoped from a motor. The center of fashion and society in the Bernese Oberland. The rendezvous of the most cosmopolitan crowd in Europe.

Underwater and microscopic photography by F. Percy Smith tell the story of a newt's life.

From the slow waitings for opening of the big top to the loneliness in the dressing room backstage, Abuhadba follows the life of a small circus in...

Set in a semi-urban coastal village of Kerala, “Beneath the Wings of Rosary Beads” follows a fishing community where faith and labor...

Released on July 6th, 1919.

Travelogue produced by Burton Holmes. Released on September 28th, 1919.

A study of nocturnal butterflies and their mating habits.

A Football Match at Newcastle-on-Tyne refers to a one-minute film recorded in October 1896 by English film pioneer Robert William Paul. According to...

Psychological documentary portrait of a village woman who's about to have an abortion. The story is conveyed in an expressionistic manner with...

Mack is a 8 year old streetwise boy wants to win all the time. With his mirrored heart he has to perform on the motorcrosstrack while death watches...

Filmmaker Peter Hegedus embarks on the challenging journey to make Sorella's Story, an immersive 360° film set on the beaches of Latvia in...

Sydney's population had just reached three million, and while its skyline was not as tall as it is today, it was already on its way to become a...

Sound version of the silent picture 'Climbing Mount Tupper.' William J. Oliver filmed the ascent of Mount Tupper in the Glacier National Park by the...

"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...

1902, 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....