Documentary Short Movies

Life in Australia: Hobart shows scenes illustrating daily life, industry, recreation and the tourist features of Hobart, Tasmania.

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

An Editor recounts the diaries of a failed film production as they attempt to construct a new narrative from the remaining footage.

A short film exploring the journey of international students in France facing administrative hurdles in a system that seems to keep them in orbit...

An octopus slithers into a narrow crack near the shore; we see its eye up close. It feeds on a crab. In spring it's time to mate. A male grabs a...

What is the difference between a story and a good story? In this short documentary, ten of the greatest screenwriters in Brazil answer this and other...

1905, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

The final episode in our Mini-Docs series comes from musician and writer Jake Anderson, who explores the niche music genres which find an increasing...

1901, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

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

Football or Soccer has had an interesting journey in America but one thing is for certain, there would be no Beckham, Rooney or Ibrahimovic in the...

The great glacier of the Selkirks in the Canadian Switzerland is equivalent to thirty Switzerlands of the Overseas. In this picture you are...

Travelogue produced by Burton Holmes. Released on the 17th of June, 1918.

This very short documentary from the Hinterland Who’s Who series provides an introduction to the caribou.

1906, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

A crowd of a hundred boys rushing the position of another crowd, storming their adversaries with volleys of snowballs, finally driving the enemy from...

The sacred and the profane are explored through the dialectic between sacred images and the world of BDSM when we meet Guilherme and his fetishist...

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith