Documentary Short Movies

So part of what's so surprising about Prague Winter is that it feels so lived in, so thoroughly grounded. It's not so much that Jennings makes Prague...

The film is a kind of docu-fiction about a boy who enrolls in a battalion of young mountain troops. The film follows his daily life in the military...

A lyrical and haunting portrait of reindeer herding in the twilight expanses of the Lappish wilderness.

Cat rescue volunteer Mirna Kirin goes to the island of Mljet in an effort to castrate local cats. In only seven days, she traps dozens of cats. Her...

'Ink and Gold: An Artist's Journey to Olympic Glory' is a short form documentary that follows the journey of New Zealand artist and athlete, Zakea...

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

"The operations that dislocate a film like Summer Solstice– I hope irreparably– from being a movie about the locomotion and eating habits...

Through the story of Rocky, a rescued orangutan whose intelligence and empathy rival our own, Orang. Utan. explores the radical question of whether...

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

1924, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

A boy raps about wanting a puppy for Hanukkah.

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...

A record of the ascent of the Jungfrau by Frederick Burlingham accompanied by four mountain guides. The film starts with panoramics of the Eiger...

Documentary on the revitalization of a housing complex in a working class neighborhood of Montreal. Modern housing has now replaced the old, sagging...

A documentary about Freia who lives with her mother in a hippie collective. She has thoughts on everything from the things her parents are doing to...

A man wanders around an abandoned hospital. Years after their last encounter, someone whose life he saved seeks him out in his old office, so that...

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

Silent Impulses is a documentary portrait of a young woman who openly deals with taboo sexual deviations. The film reveals her inner world, the way...

Released in April of 1921, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith