Documentary Short Movies

Released in 1901

CMC’s visionary leaders and artists to celebrate one of San Francisco’s most-revered and longest-running community arts programs.

A short documentary that follows an Australian band through their journey from jamming at a backyard party to a national tour across the country.

Michael Franti, winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2009 Community Leadership Awards (the Helen Crocker Russell Award) - artist, activist, founder...

Filmed from the Brooklyn tower of the bridge, this is a panorama starting at Manhattan's Battery and then panning northward along the East River...

A portrait of two very different mathematicians, porridge pulleys and Pi features Fields medalist Vaughan Jones, one of the world's foremost knot...

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Noemí, an Ayuukjä'äy woman reflects on the loss of her native tongue with a voice that blends into day to day life in Cerro Costoche...

On the way to creating a new future, the New Jewish Filmmaking Project is rediscovering the past. 11 young storytellers, ages 15-25, collaborated...

1901. Cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Considered one of the first documentary about contaminated water in Uruguay.

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Several bouts are shown in this picture, and as the contestants frequently lift each other into mid air, and then throw, the effect is exciting and...

Follows native life, copra harvesting, Pago Pago Harbor, and the U.S. Naval Station Tutuila in American Samoa during the early 1930s.

Travelogue released on the 29th of December, 1918. Produced by Burton Holmes.

An analysis of the phenomenon of accelerated urbanization in Brazil, and more particularly in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo.

Documentary footage showing the alligator in several stages of growth, from babyhood to a ripe old age; a film taken at an alligator farm in...

1906, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

The story of two young single mothers who join forces to make a new kind of family unit for themselves and their children.