Documentary Short Movies

Released in February of 1921. Produced by Frederick Burlingham.

Award winning short documentary by Ibrahim Snoopy, tracks the journey of the MTC martial arts team, which decides after a civil revolution that...

One man loses his son to a cocaine overdose. Grieving, Stan Marsden, a Tsimpsean wood carver decides to create a totem pole in his son's memory and...

This opens with a view of the upper falls and great viaduct of the mountain railway, showing ascending and descending cars, and then a close view of...

This documentary short film by Arthur Kent recounts the June 4, 1989 assault by the People's Liberation Army on pro-democracy demonstrators in...

Original archival synopsis: The Japanese bombed Darwin many times during World War II because it was strategically important target number one in...

Where is Greenland located? What does the country actually look like? Who lives there? What is life like there? The film seeks to answer these and...

Released in 1901

This 1944 newsreel documents arrivals at a Wellington wharf from the Middle East: New Zealand soldiers and Polish children. For the refugees it was...

Travelogue released on the 8th of January, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

The film shows a cuckoo caught in the act of laying an egg in the nest of two titlarks. The egg is hatched by the foster-mother, and she and her mate...

1924, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

1905, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

1901, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Follows native life, copra harvesting, Pago Pago Harbor, and the U.S. Naval Station Tutuila in American Samoa during the early 1930s.

Preschool to Prison is a compelling examination of how the United States public school system is built and operated like prisons. Zero-tolerance...

Released on the 28th of February, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

A curious incident which happens in early summer when the cattle are taken to the high pastures for three months.

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith