Documentary Short Movies

Released in 1901

First transmitted in 1961, David Attenborough travels to Meru National Park in Kenya to visit Joy and George Adamson and meet Elsa the lioness and...

Documentary on the making of the film featuring interviews with distributor Julian Schlossberg and actor Joyce Van Patten.

An analysis of the phenomenon of accelerated urbanization in Brazil, and more particularly in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo.

This short follows a day of work for an Everglades wildlife trapper catching animals for zoos around America. In this film, his assignment is to go...

However impressive the site is, however bossy the guides are, the visitors of the Musée Napoléon listen only absent-mindedly. Does this...

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

A documentary about the actress who played Miss Torso, the dancer that caught James Stewart's eye in Alfred Hitchcock's classic film Rear Window.

Released in July of 1902. Produced by William Nicholas Selig.

Klaira presents a surprising vision of assimilation and a loving depiction of San Francisco. She and her grandparents explore how the experience of...

In 1941, under the Vichy regime, during the Nazi occupation, a team of six people crossed the Mont-Blanc massif. Leaving the Arve Valley with a month...

Grimsel was the scene of the Austrian-French conflict of 1799. It is now one of the most popular passes in the Alps.

A short documentary that tells the story of queer artist Heather Spooner and the adult pen pal program she created during the pandemic, featuring the...

How did peacocks, originally from India, end up on an island in Berlin in the 19th century, and hippopotamuses, a century later, on the banks of a...

After constantly moving, two students finally find the opportunity to start a family by adopting a stray dog.

Released in May of 1921, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Documentary about the Watts Towers. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2009.

Snow is precarious, unstable, elusive. Its aesthetic and symbolic register often refer to notions of the romantic. Snow reduces the colour palette...