Documentary Short Movies

  • 1919
    With the Yanks in France

    With the Yanks in France

    With the Yanks in France

    01919HD

    Released on May 4th, 1919. Produced by Burton Holmes.

    With the Yanks in France
  • 1942
    The Life Cycle of the Newt

    The Life Cycle of the Newt

    The Life Cycle of the Newt

    01942HD

    Underwater and microscopic photography by F. Percy Smith tell the story of a newt's life.

    The Life Cycle of the Newt
  • 2018
    Ruff 'n Tuff - Stranger Cole's Toronto Roots

    Ruff 'n Tuff - Stranger Cole's Toronto Roots

    Ruff 'n Tuff - Stranger Cole's Toronto Roots

    02018HD

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

    Ruff 'n Tuff - Stranger Cole's Toronto Roots
  • 1918
    Facing Death on the Blumlisalp

    Facing Death on the Blumlisalp

    Facing Death on the Blumlisalp

    01918HD

    ...where the whole expedition, by the breaking of an ice cornice on the summit, escaped death by a hair's breadth. The miraculous escape is recorded...

    Facing Death on the Blumlisalp
  • 1970
    Klaira's Story - Connection to the Past

    Klaira's Story - Connection to the Past

    Klaira's Story - Connection to the Past

    01970HD

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

    Klaira's Story - Connection to the Past
  • 2021
    Radical Self Acceptance

    Radical Self Acceptance

    Radical Self Acceptance

    02021HD

    We are living in the time of a heteronormative society that antagonizes Queer people for their Being-ness. In Africa, it is believed that we are...

    Radical Self Acceptance
  • 1899
    Panorama from the Tower of the Brooklyn Bridge

    Panorama from the Tower of the Brooklyn Bridge

    Panorama from the Tower of the Brooklyn Bridge

    4.51899HD

    Filmed from the Brooklyn tower of the bridge, this is a panorama starting at Manhattan's Battery and then panning northward along the East River...

    Panorama from the Tower of the Brooklyn Bridge
  • 1904
    Life Aboard the Steam Yacht Argonaut

    Life Aboard the Steam Yacht Argonaut

    Life Aboard the Steam Yacht Argonaut

    01904HD

    1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

    Life Aboard the Steam Yacht Argonaut
  • 1970
    Glasgow Celtic

    Glasgow Celtic

    Glasgow Celtic

    101970HD

    Kyogo Furuhashi has taken Celtic by storm since joining the club in the summer of 2021. He has scored 26 goals so far in the 2022-2023 season as the...

    Glasgow Celtic
  • 1970
    Michael Franti - The San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards

    Michael Franti - The San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards

    Michael Franti - The San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards

    01970HD

    Michael Franti, winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2009 Community Leadership Awards (the Helen Crocker Russell Award) - artist, activist, founder...

    Michael Franti - The San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards
  • 2023
    Deliverance

    Deliverance

    Deliverance

    02023HD

    A fairly shabby, dark, three-part wardrobe in a hallway: About ten years have passed since Joana Claude suffered sexual violence when it was...

    Deliverance
  • 2020
    The New Normal

    The New Normal

    The New Normal

    02020HD

    Is the past the future we want ? The race to get back to normal made us question this very idea of normalcy itself – Is it normal that our...

    The New Normal
  • 1987
    Snow Job: The Media Hysteria of AIDS

    Snow Job: The Media Hysteria of AIDS

    Snow Job: The Media Hysteria of AIDS

    71987HD

    Deconstructs the representation of AIDS in the popular media where distortion and misrepresentation amount to a "snow job" promoting increased...

    Snow Job: The Media Hysteria of AIDS
  • 1970
    Malcolm Margolin: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2008

    Malcolm Margolin: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2008

    Malcolm Margolin: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2008

    01970HD

    Malcolm Margolin , Writer, Publisher, and Founder of Heyday Books, winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2008 Community Leadership Awards (the Helen...

    Malcolm Margolin: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2008
  • 1992
    Kecia: Words to Live By

    Kecia: Words to Live By

    Kecia: Words to Live By

    01992HD

    The first (native) First Nations girl to come forward as HIV-positive in the early 90's. The film chronicles her travels across Canada delivering...

    Kecia: Words to Live By
  • 1992
    Joannis Amelii, animula vagula blandula

    Joannis Amelii, animula vagula blandula

    Joannis Amelii, animula vagula blandula

    71992HD

    Joannis Amelii, animula vagula blandula
  • 1994
    Outlaw

    Outlaw

    Outlaw

    91994HD

    A video-verité manifesto made with self-identified gender outlaw, author and activist, Leslie Feinberg (1949-2014). Raw and confrontational,...

    Outlaw
  • 1964
    The Whaling Station

    The Whaling Station

    The Whaling Station

    01964HD

    short documentary film on an Icelandic whaling station

    The Whaling Station
  • 2026
    Time Strolls Down the Street

    Time Strolls Down the Street

    Time Strolls Down the Street

    02026HD

    Rua Direita, also known as Commerce Street, runs from one end of Portalegre to the other. Once a meeting place and a landmark for local commerce, it...

    Time Strolls Down the Street
  • 1970
    Dr Washington Burns: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2010

    Dr Washington Burns: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2010

    Dr Washington Burns: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2010

    01970HD

    Dr. Washington Burns is the executive director of the Prescott-Joseph Center for Community Enhancement, for working tirelessly to meet the needs and...

    Dr Washington Burns: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2010