Documentary Short Movies

An intimate behind the scenes short film while shooting the Black Adder special Back and Forth.

What is the difference between a story and a good story? In this short documentary, ten of the greatest screenwriters in Brazil answer this and other...

Follow Ruby Chopstix, Canada’s first drag artist-in-residence, as they navigate the complexity of being an underrepresented drag performer...

A young mother, alone with her daughter, confides in a friend who happens to be the director herself. Chantal Akerman, although she sympathizes with...

This Traveltalk series short visits Sydney, Australia and its harbour.

With shared economic, environmental, and humanitarian concerns, communities of local planners, designers, and citizens work toward cross-border...

Joyce Jonathan Crone—Mohawk matriarch, retired teacher, activist, humanitarian—reaches forward into her community of Huntsville, Ontario,...

This short explores the possibility that Louis XVII, son of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, escaped death during the French Revolution and was...

Abel Ferrara directed this thirty-minute documentary that interviews the cast of his film THE ADDICTION.

The documentary of Kill Bill Vol.2, and how it was made. This is a documentary found on the DVD of Kill Bill Vol. 2. It consists of interviews,...

Documentary film written by music critic Artemiy Troitskiy. It depicts the variety of Soviet and Baltic rock music and offers its viewer an idea that...

Made refugees by the war in Ukraine, Olga and her granddaughter Milana travel to a summer camp in the Austrian Alps to test the limits of their own...

In June 2010, French actress Marion Cotillard spent a week in the heart of the tropical forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo with members of...

Furniture and clutter of one small apartment room become the subject of a moving still life—with Akerman herself staring back. This...

A daughter struggles to speak with her father about her grandmother, revealing the quiet distances — and shared inheritances — that shape...

A documentary film about trading security and stability for passion. A surprising number of small businesses and niche restaurants originate and...

The daughters of Title IX discover that pervasive gender-based stereotypes and discrimination persist within the high stakes professional world of...

Mountain Gorilla takes us to a remote range of volcanic mountains in Africa, described by those who have been there as ""one of the most beautiful...

A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "You Only Live Twice"

A teen with autism unlocks a joyous world of self-expression as she shares her voice for the first time using a letter board.