Documentary Short Movies

This film features some of the most important living Postmodern practitioners, Charles Jencks, Robert A M Stern and Sir Terry Farrell among them, and...

After waiting all day long, an aspiring actor tries to grab the attention of the exhausted and hungry judges during the short audition.

It’s the second semester of junior year for Pierce “Sparni” Sparnroft, a gifted jazz vibraphonist studying at Montclair State...

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

Dedicated “to all victims of intolerance,” "The Devil’s Toy" is a faux–public service documentary that chronicles the early...

Weiss’s classic B&W agitprop short made after his escape to London just ahead of the Nazis. He carried with him three reels of material for his...

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

How to make porridge using a haybox.

In 1941, under the Vichy regime, during the Nazi occupation, a team of six people crossed the Mont-Blanc massif. Leaving the Arve Valley with a month...

Pelicans frolic around and in a pool. A keeper comes to feed them.

Released on August 3rd, 1919.

The Making of Amarillo Ramp documents the construction of Robert Smithson's earthwork Amarillo Ramp. At age thirty-five, while photographing the...

Shows new methods in treating those afflicted with mental health issues. Contrasts past treatment regimes where people were locked away out of sight...

Former footballer Paul Merson sets out to understand why his life has been so blighted by gambling and asks if enough is being done to prevent others...

A poetic tapestry eulogizing Chicago's famed "Old" Comiskey Park.

Sir Ernest Shackleton is a poignant absence in this fragment from the closing chapter in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. The...

This is the story of one of Australia's most gruesome murders and the first woman in the nation's history to be sentenced to life in prison with no...

Documentary on the Mayan culture.

A short documentary about the former judoka Marina and her Judo Club for People with Disabilities - "Fuji". Its brave members cope with all things...

A short film of boats sailing in the New York Harbor