Documentary Short Movies

A filmmaker reconnects with an old friend, quietly revealing the distance time can create.

The Working Cat’s Guide to the Klondike by Veronica Verkley, is a short documentary film recalling the traditional practice of Cat Sledding,...

A short anecdotal documentary about the nature of destruction, a debilitating deadlock of humanity.

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Released in 1901

Bioscoped from a motor. The center of fashion and society in the Bernese Oberland. The rendezvous of the most cosmopolitan crowd in Europe.

Internationale Bergrettungstagung in Tirol 1948 is a documentary about mountain rescue that takes place in the Ötztal Alps. It was produced in...

Released in 1901

Short documentary about a German electrician who settled and started a family in the mountainous region of Lika.

An exceptional cinematographic document on Emilio Comici, shot in 1938 in Val Rosandra by a MGM operator. The documentary shows Comici with the...

Cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Seven months after the death of Washington State quarterback Tyler Hilinski, his parents cope with their grief and memories.

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...

The inhabitants of a lobstering village in Maine all have one thing on their minds: their impending deaths.

Roy Hiroshi Matsumoto was an American soldier of World War II. A Nisei, Matsumoto was born in Laguna, California. When he was 8 years old, his...

Released in 1920, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

Rita Semel, interfaith pioneer and Jewish activist, is a recipient of the San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards "for her life-long...

This mini-documentary follows Stewart McPherson's journey to Tristan da Cunha, the most remote inhabited island in the world. We meet the Tristanians...

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

1924, produced by Frederick Burlingham.