Documentary Short Movies

For more than 40 years, on an old back street in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood, Jacqueline Margulis’ culinary obsession has...

1918, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

The film shows one day from waking up in the morning all the way to waking up again the next morning. The everyday situations that many commercials...

A Secrets of Life documentary about the European Buzzard. The film was registered on the Board of Trade's official list under Section 6 of the Films...

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

A film about the daily life of Martin, a handicapped child who will always be dependent on his parents. Ever since he was very small, Martin has had...

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

A documentary short on the life and work of the late artist John Shearer, one of the greatest American photographers of the 20th century.

Released in 1901

Feeling Asian American explores the emotional journeys of five individuals, who navigated their way through their own racial reckonings in the face...

The short film Jamal (1981) by Ibrahim Shaddad is a report from the life of a camel, most of which plays out in a dreary, small room – a sesame...

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

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

How to make porridge using a haybox.

This two-part visual essay features the son of director Don Siegel, Kristoffer Tabori, who reads from his father book A Siegel Film. The bulk of the...

The film takes us to the North of England to follow the migration of the black-headed gull down to London. There, the narrator asks viewers to...

The Numbers Start with the River is a 1971 American short documentary film about small-town life in Iowa. Produced by Donald Wrye for the United...

Captures the violence and tenderness, alongside the dominance and submission, that is found in a single, intimate embrace.

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...