Documentary Short Movies

Showing hundreds of boys, girls and adults on skis descending a steep snow-covered bank.

Released in 1901

Silent Impulses is a documentary portrait of a young woman who openly deals with taboo sexual deviations. The film reveals her inner world, the way...

Travelogue produced by Burton Holmes. Released on September 14th, 1919.

The stalls with their keepers and stores of laces are being inspected by English and American tourists, who no doubt takeaway with them a goodly...

This film gives a fine panoramic view of this wonderful railway track through immense gorges and cuttings and snow baulks of from 15 to 20 feet high...

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

People of different age, profession and social status answer two simple questions: who they are and what they want from life.

It is an investigation into the loaded, transforming topography that is already palpable in the landscape, before we actually understand what...

Released in 1901

1906, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

The official Rocky Mountain National Park Centennial film. The stunning cinematography will take you on a journey into Rocky Mountain National...

Man's need to create beauty, to interpret the world around him in image and color, has found expression in many forms, from the days of primitive...

Released in 1901

Honorable Ronald V. Dellums, winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2005 Community Leadership Awards (Robert C. Kirkwood Award) - for his decades of...

Jeena issi ka naam hein - Akhil Balamsheikh, 21/09/2025

Released in 1915, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

In October, during the tense days of the Nagorno-Karabakh war, the director takes his camera to the village of Ashagi Nuvedi in Lankaran. The film...

Landscapes of drained marshes and reclaimed meadows, from where scientists from the Experimental Station of the Polish Academy of Sciences in...

Released in 1901.