Documentary Short Movies

Tourists leaving the Bear Hotel, Kandersteg, to cross the Gemmi. Many ladies of the party are seen mounting the hardy ponies at the hotel front, and,...

After an unsuccessful attempt at establishing himself in the early 1970s music scene, Jamaican-born reggae legend Stranger Cole opens a record store,...

Painlevé’s first film on animal behavior, focusing on the Hermit Crab. On this film we see the Hermit Crab trying to find shelter.

For his third picture in his series, Mr. Holmes takes his audience on a visit to our National Military Academy at West Point, there to study the...

Devastated by her best friend's suicide, a young Lakota woman creates a girls' boxing team with urgent hope that sport, sisterhood and tradition will...

Video Nasty; once a term referring to films that were criticised for their violent content in the early 80s, now the name of an up-and-coming film...

This film shows an idyllic picture of life in the Victorian capital of Melbourne in the mid 1960s.

1905, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Produced by Burton Holmes. Released on June 22nd, 1919.

1906, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Travelogue produced by Burton Holmes. Released on January 7th, 1918.

A scene of harvesting hay on the great winter playground. The group of busy reapers, with hand scythes, in the foreground, the Swiss maids who...

A film of a royal visit to Aberdeen, Scotland in 1906. Comprises footage re-edited from the earlier silent film "Aberdeen University Quarter...

The world-famed Simmenthal cattle, bred by Herr Rebmann, are seen leaving the valley for the summer pastures on the Grimmalp. The herds are...

The peculiarity of this waterfall, with its narrow funnel-shaped opening, from which, on to the jagged rocks the torrent dashes, is here portrayed in...

"While The Salvation Army on the Job is listed in film databases without a full plot summary, it is closely associated with the 1919 short comedy A...

This gives a panorama of the Village of Isebwald and entrance to Interlaken from the deck of a steamer on Lake Brienz. The famous Geissbach falls...

Travelogue produced by Burton Holmes. Released on November 30th, 1919.

The Invisible Subtitler is an independent documentary about the use of subtitles in cinema and the life of subtitlers themselves, focusing on the...

This is the story of French's vs. Heinz, and how the people of Leamington, Ont. (AKA the Tomato Capital of Canada) got caught up in Canada's greatest...