Documentary Short Movies

A group of tourists, including five women, cross the Mauvais Pas, a rocky passage equipped with a railing, next to the Mer de Glace Glacier. One of...

From the shores of Lake Huron to the prairie capital of Manitoba is an interesting trip. Scenes shown are motorboating amid the Thirty Thousand...

Released in 1901

A tour of the renowned Lake District; a visual delight that captures the tranquillity and drama of this quite outstanding scenery.

A filmmaker reconnects with an old friend, quietly revealing the distance time can create.

A satire on celebrity with a cacophony of gossip merchants, publicists, and “a host of stars.”

Released on August 21st, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

A documentary about Captain Dale Black, a pilot who died in a famous airplane crash in Burbank, California which was covered by the LA Times. After...

1918, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

The first picture of the new Paramount-Burton Holmes Travel pictures recount Mr. Holmes' motor trip of the summer of 1913 through the more...

"She Climbs to Conquer" shot by W.J. Oliver, was a noteworthy film which gained well merited acclaim. Made in 1933 it pictured the climb of Georgia...

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

This video is about the idea of narcissistic transference, sexual dependency, and the failure to distinguish between the self and the loved one. It...

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Weiss’s classic B&W agitprop short made after his escape to London just ahead of the Nazis. He carried with him three reels of material for his...

The nightingale and its song, its habitat, nest eggs and young.

Joan Bakewell visits Haworth in Yorkshire, home of the Brontës, to see the setting in which the novelists worked.

A year has passed since the attacks on the Nord Stream gas pipelines, and it is still unclear what actually happened at the bottom of the Baltic Sea...