Documentary Short Movies

Through small yet meaningful anecdotes and reflections, a handful of individual voices come together to form a collective narrative that speaks to...

Documentary about the Watts Towers. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2009.

This promotional short for 2010 (1984) shows moviegoers how some of the film's visual effects were created. This includes makeup for Keir Dullea's...

They’re cute, they’re lovable, and judging by the 26 billion views on over 2 million YouTube videos of them, one thing is certain: cats...

In the heart of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, there's a grocery store unlike any other. A down-to-earth, high-energy, family-run institution where the...

Britain's first complete rock climbing film, by Stanley Watson. A film about climbing in the Lakes. Norah Johnstone, a teacher at Keswick Grammar...

This documentary features candid studio conversations with people of diverse backgrounds from the Erika Lust community. They share personal...

Poet John Betjeman is shown visiting locations including Vauxhall Park, Aldersgate Street station, Camden Town and Hatfield, where he recites a...

Leaving her girlfriend Kat in the car Rajinder enters her house to announce to her parent's she is gay. But before she can tell them her parents make...

On a snowy and frigid swath of the European Arctic lies the border towns of Kirkenes in Norway and Nikel in Russia. They are separated by 25 miles of...

At the height of the AIDS crisis, many gay men sold their life insurance policies to investors for quick cash. This documentary charts the rise and...

A short film about Lapland

In 1945, Allied troops invaded Germany and liberated Nazi death camps. They found unspeakable horrors which still haunt the world’s conscience....

This short documentary tells about shooting the scene from 'Heat (1995)' where Robert De Niro and Al Pacino meet over a cup of coffee.

Portrait made for the 70th birthday of Rosa von Praunheim by his close collaborator.

The actors who played Tevye's daughters reflect on their experiences filming Fiddler on the Roof.

Off the back of the embarrassment that was the qualification campaign for the 2008 European championship, Ireland turned to the expertise of...

L'Appel Des Cimes, directed by Alain Pol, is a documentary commissioned by the CAF and the various French ministries on the practice of post-war...

Silent archival footage of Jewish children during the Holocaust, accompanied by music and poetic narration. A haunting portrait of a future...

"Duel" describes the clash of two athletes, shot putters David Davis and Alfred Sosgórnik.