Documentary Short Movies

A picture of life in the South Australian capital of Adelaide in the mid 1960s, social, commercial and recreational.

An interview with British film director Mike Leigh produced for BBC-TV.

Video Nasty; once a term referring to films that were criticised for their violent content in the early 80s, now the name of an up-and-coming film...

Vancouver is a veritable metropolis, a beautiful cosmopolitan city; perhaps the most English in all the entire Dominion of Canada. It is famous for...

Released on August 10th, 1919. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Travelogue produced by Burton Holmes. Released on May 27th, 1918.

Travelogue released on October 27th, 1918. Produced by Burton Holmes.

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Travelogue released on the 29th of May, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Two Canadians, one Liberal and one Conservative, attend a U.S. convention focused on depolarizing politics, determined to engage in tough...

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Hermann Perren, mountain guide, prepares the ascent of Dent du Requin with a companion. He checks the equipment necessary for any mountaineer, rope,...

Some 1960s hackers known as phone phreaks found a way to avoid long-distance charges. Two of those phreaks just happened to be students named Steve...

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

A documentary about Fausto Delle Chiaie, an italian artist. He worked in many european countries and spent the last 30 years exhibiting on the...

Travelogue released on the 14th of May, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

1901, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

A man wanders around an abandoned hospital. Years after their last encounter, someone whose life he saved seeks him out in his old office, so that...

Travelogue produced by Burton Holmes. Released on October 5th, 1919.

Travelogue produced by Burton Holmes. Released on February 24th, 1918.