Documentary Short Movies

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...

University of Washington professor Noam Pianko and his students collaborated with Citizen Film, the Pacific Northwest Jewish Archive and...

Released in February of 1921. Produced by Frederick Burlingham.

Travelogue released on June 10th, 1918. Directed & produced by Burton Holmes.

Children of lesbian mothers talk frankly about their mothers' coming out, their own homophobia, and how they feel about being raised by lesbian...

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

The Algerian region of Tindouf is home to more than 170,000 Sahrawis, who have been living in refugee camps since 1976, when Morocco occupied the...

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

The Crowds of Chernobyl explores the reasons behind people's fascination with the (arguably) most famous exclusion zone in the world, the Chernobyl...

Released in 1901.

On August 6, gay, bisexual, transvestite, and transsexual activists gathered in Bursa to hold a march and then hold a press conference to protest the...

This 1944 newsreel documents arrivals at a Wellington wharf from the Middle East: New Zealand soldiers and Polish children. For the refugees it was...

An educational film on unknown microorganisms discovered in the potassium salts of the Permian Sea.

The ascent of the Wetterhorn by Frank Ormiston-Smith accompanied by the guide Christian Bergener, Rev. H. J. Heard, Mr. E Burchell-Rodway from the...

1924, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

A short film made for S4C and Channel 4 about the history of the whaling industry and how our view of these animals has changed over time. Winner of...

A short version of the film 'A la conquête des cimes' by René Moreau released for the domestic market in two Pathe Baby big reels. In...

The goats of the Grimsel are almost as famous as the Hospice itself, and form a most attractive picture among the bleak and desolate surroundings.

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

The striking landscapes of rural Sardinia provide the backdrop to this lyrical look at the hardscrabble lives of the region’s shepherds in...