Documentary Short Movies

An in-depth documentary on the behind-the-scenes of the 1990 Canuck cult classic The Final Sacrifice.

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

This documentary film focuses on the animal life that survives in this harsh arctic climates at the edge of the ice - from the simple algae to...

At once exaltation and elegy, this documentary profiles the natural history of North Carolina's Outer Banks, a seascape of transitory barrier islands...

A documentary about the making of Ari Aster's Kafkaesque epic Beau is Afraid.

Eleven major film makers from Europe, America and Asia talk about Akira Kurosawa and discover surprising influences on their own work.

On the way to creating a new future, the New Jewish Filmmaking Project is rediscovering the past. 11 young storytellers, ages 15-25, collaborated...

Water Birds is a 1952 short documentary film directed by Ben Sharpsteen. The film delves into the still waters of lagoons and marshes to the wild...

First transmitted in 1961, David Attenborough travels to Meru National Park in Kenya to visit Joy and George Adamson and meet Elsa the lioness and...

In the following conversation, recorded remotely in 2020, filmmakers Martin Scorsese and Ari Aster discuss the mission, evolution, and ongoing work...

What does being a woman really mean? How do women live the status society reserves for them? A group of women, beautiful or not, young or not, gifted...

The making of “The Devil’s Backbone” by Guillermo del Toro.

A look at the cinematographers, editors, musicians, production designers and other talent of the Dirty Harry series.

A short documentary from Eric Ashby on the badgers leaving near his home.

Stanley Kubrick’s first color film, commissioned by the Seafarers International Union to promote the benefits of union membership. Shot inside...

A short documentary about the behaviour of Japanese primary school students.

A historical documentary documenting the rise, function, and abandonment of a 17 story building that once housed The Rochester Psychiatric Center. ...

Pinki is a five-year-old girl from a village in the Mirzapur District, India, born into a desperately poor family, and with a cleft lip. Pinki never...

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

By combining actual footage with reenactments, this film offers both a documentary and fictional account of the life of Adolf Hitler, from his...