Documentary Short Movies

Footage of the seabirds found in the Shetland Isles. One of a group of films made by Jenny Brown and bought by John Grierson for the GPO Film Library...

1906, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Released in 1901

People from different ethnic backgrounds with "difficult" names by Western standards share their experience with moving through the world with an...

How to make porridge using a haybox.

A young man living alone in Saaremaa analyses loneliness and happiness while trying to put up with the struggles of being the only atheist in his...

This a fun behind-the-scenes featurette that looks back on the creation and continuing popularity of the show. Several members of the crew discuss...

Documentary about a hunting party.

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...

Travelogue released on the first of January, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Austria and the Alps is the title of a 18 minutes travelogue by Burton Holmes produced to be distributed by the Paramount. The travelogue consisted...

Frank Ormiston-Smith, the pioneer mountaineering photograher and filmmaker, filmed in 1906 the ascent to several towers in the Cinque Torri area in...

In 1984 a tiny, anonymous Tipperary village was thrust in to the world's spotlight when US President Ronald Reagan arrived to visit his ancestral...

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

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

Short documentary about the making of Twin Peaks: The Return.

Through the memories of three Scarborough residents, unhome explores the cultural identity of home and the impact of gentrification

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

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

Distressing accounts and images of historical warfare and the ongoing issues of a population suffering from hunger fill this short documentary about...