Documentary Short Movies

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

Mexico Cup, 1970: Pelé scores the goal against Czechoslovakia, helping the Brazilian team towards its third championship. Orlando Abrunhosa...

The striking landscapes of rural Sardinia provide the backdrop to this lyrical look at the hardscrabble lives of the region’s shepherds in...

A frenetic Santiago gives me space to reflect on depression, loneliness and home in an attempt to piece together my past. Pandemic revelations and...

1924, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

The Numbers Start with the River is a 1971 American short documentary film about small-town life in Iowa. Produced by Donald Wrye for the United...

Dramatizes the case of a family in which the father respects and loves his wife and children, permitting each to develop as an individual, and...

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...

Also known as Reindeer Time and Inheritance, this 9-minute short by Arne Sucksdorff documents the Sámi people’s autumn migration as they...

The American mountaineer Gary Hemming marked the era of the 1960s. The story of this "exceptional" character is intimately linked to that of the...

A poetic tapestry eulogizing Chicago's famed "Old" Comiskey Park.

Each of the stories celebrates pioneers of a national movement to engage encore workers, adults age 50+, in solving problems, meeting important...

A short talk on having sex in the woods.

The Southern Sea Otter was historically abundant along the California coastline until intense hunting pressures reduced their numbers to...

Unedited film of rural shore Havana, Cuba. Footage includes scenes of the old stone buildings and lighthouse along the ocean, mountain landscapes,...

Released in 1920, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

1909, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

In this featurette, ART + COM members join the cast and crew of the show to discuss its factual basis and the development of the court case.

The film was inspired by one of the most important documentaries shot by Krzysztof Kieślowski, Talking Heads (1980). The director asked his...

Pelicans frolic around and in a pool. A keeper comes to feed them.