Documentary Short Movies

A documentary behind the scenes of Peter Bogdanovich's 'The Cat's Meow' (2001).

Frei Gualter is sent by S. Francisco de Assis to Guimarães around 1213. The devotion to this franciscan friar started to rise and in 1577 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...

A picture of life in the Tasmanian town of Launceston in the mid 1960s.

Programmers, filmmakers, and attendees past and present chart the history of BFI Flare to mark its 40th anniversary, from parties to politics. ...

Made by the Department of Immigration to entice immigrants from Great Britain, this film shows an idyllic picture of life in the Western Australian...

A cell phone was the only thing that kept Yonas, an Eritrean refugee, connected to Jérôme, the French journalist who wanted to tell his...

Short version of the film 'Eingeschneit in Lager IV', released for the home market. The film shows images of the 1938 German expedition to Nanga...

Returning back to Chino Airport, this documentary sequel follows the evolution of Cal-Aerofab Flight Academy through their restoration projects and...

The winter pond sleeps, life beneath the surface has ceased. The rays of the frosty sun penetrate the ice crust, and fishermen release oxygen into...

Making of Jean Luc Godard's Alphaville (1965)

A heartwarming exploration of a community art project by photographer Tawfik Elgazzar providing free portraits for locals and passers-by in Sydney,...

An exploration of how the architects who created the genre captivated the entire world, forever influenced the way music was made, and became a...

Produced by Burton Holmes. Released on June 15th, 1919.

This film about Library services in Australia shows some of the work of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Library, the National Library with its varied...

John Milius narrates this featurette on the Clint Eastwood classic.

Documentary by Occitane Lacurie.

The coming of age story of Shéár Avory, a 17 year old trans* aspiring social justice advocate in Los Angeles who navigates housing...

Endangered Hawaiʻi produced by American Bird Conservancy (ABC) with funding by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, and narrated by actor...

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