Documentary Short Movies

Released in 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

In Caribou in the Archive, rustic VHS home video of a Cree woman hunting caribou in the 1990s is combined with NFB archival film footage of northern...

Released on the 9th of November, 1919. Produced by Burton Holmes.

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...

In the void created ad hoc to throw us into desperation, fear, shock, the torment of an infinite present, Arto Lindsay sings with words, silences and...

A behind the scenes documentary for the 2009 horror film 'The Grudge 3'.

Travelogue released on the 22nd of December, 1918. Produced by Burton Holmes.

A metallic cacophony resounds as Eric hunts for, and labours through, abandoned scrap. The sun beats down as his pick-up truck rumbles through the...

WHY WE JUGGLE is a portrait of six artists from all over the world and their motivations for juggling. Through juggling, individual worldwide...

This documentary looks at the Nazi submarine threat, their fleet known as the "Wolf Pack," and how it almost helped to defeat the Allies in World War...

Travelogue released on the 29th of May, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Dave Meslin, a 47-year-old Canadian activist, is known for his campaigns to defend public space from commercial interests. For 15 years, he has been...

A tour of the renowned Lake District; a visual delight that captures the tranquillity and drama of this quite outstanding scenery.

This film was originally made for the International Conference on Human Settlements (HABITAT) which was held in Vancouver, Canada. Taking as an...

Released in 1919, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

The film begins by showing images of the Holocaust, and stating that Adolf Hitler sanctioned the killing of 11 million people. This is followed by...

"An early color film presented as 'Ascent to the Bernina Massif'. Two mountaineers break from the Forno hut and first climb the Punta Rasica and then...

In the wake of cataclysmic regional change in the artist's homeland of Hong Kong, Simon Liu’s Cinema-Strobo-Scopic film features a laborious...

This documentary portrays the arrival in Chilean Patagonia of the intelligent buoy of The Blue BOAT Initiative, a project developed by...