Documentary Short Movies

Adventure bike-packers Matt Schweiker and Luke Swab decide to take on three of the hardest gravel bike rides in the southeast in three consecutive...

Thea’s life is changed when she receives an unexpected call from her childhood ‘friend’, May. Memories of the past with May shake...

An in-depth look at how the short film Monkey Business was created. This was made in 1987 to explain to the clients of MPC what the new digital post...

The documentary adresses the meaning of music and the musical diversity present in Umbanda (a Brazilian religion with afroindigenous roots). With...

Narrated by Bill Slater, this short black & white educational film is about sporting and outdoor activities on the majestic Hudson River in New York...

Watch Eastbourne based band, ROAM create their 3rd studio album, smile wide.

The lack of clean drinking water in Karakalpakya from the view of the well builders. A well made on request yields spoiled unpotable water. A good...

Historic look at the Columbia River and its development. This film contains rare footage of Grand Coulee Dam construction, Indian fishing at Celilo...

The film takes place in the Saharawi refugee camps in Algeria against the historical backdrop of Spanish colonialism and the Morroccan invasion of...

Walk listening to the campanus of the cows in the bush. Light a charcoal stove. Go out to the prao with the albarcas. One day everyday things that...

A film shot in the early 1930s and revised in 1952 which covers Moscow, the tribal areas of the Caucasus Mountains, avant-garde and Jewish theatre...

"Michikha Is Not Afraid of Airplanes" is a visual essay about a journey - even one that is impossible, didn't take place, or was undertaken...

The life of the inhabitants of a shelter near Moscow for people in a crisis situation: women with young children, the homeless, victims of abuse.

A father has been fighting for the rights of his daughter since she consumed tainted milk powder, yet fails to be understood. With a focus on the...

This personal film is made up of landscape photos from the archive of the director's father, through which he returns to his life while exploring the...

When Nick Hurndon was six years old he and his two older brothers were set on fire by their stepfather in their San Francisco home. Now in his early...

Explores the role of the cabinetmaker in colonial America, including the tools and technology used to carve table legs, wooden hinges, and more.

Lynda Benglis was a visiting artist at CalArts in 1973 when she encouraged then-student Susan Mogul to explore video as a medium. "Big Tip/Back...

Aria Dean explores the black creative labour put into memes, images defined not by their content but by how they are circulated, mutated and...

Illustrates the behavior of boys organized in clubs, each of which is run either on democratic principles, an autocratic principles, or as a...