Documentary Short Movies

1901, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

The director’s mother, Mirka Mora, avoided Auschwitz by one day. On his father’s side many perished in the Holocaust. These facts...

1906, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

This is the story of French's vs. Heinz, and how the people of Leamington, Ont. (AKA the Tomato Capital of Canada) got caught up in Canada's greatest...

Travelogue released on November 2nd, 1919. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Travelogue released on the 14th of May, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

A close-up on Somerset's changing milk and cheese industry

Choreography of familiar gestures that the author was able to spice up with a peculiar and original perspective.

This very short documentary from the Hinterland Who’s Who series introduces you to the willow ptarmigan.

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

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

The climbers Jean Jacques and André Lambert, accompanied by the photographer Jean Lozeron, climb the great ridge of Salève, in...

This very short documentary from the Hinterland Who’s Who series introduces viewers to the trumpeter swan.

This Norwegian sport is much practiced by the Swiss youth as well as the visitors to the winter resorts. Many successful jumps (the unsuccessful...

Released on the 9th of November, 1919. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Surabaya, Java, is the busiest headquarters of the Dutch in the Far East. Here the white-clothed man from Holland has established the commercial...

Travelogue released on the 5th of June, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

West Coast of England, redshanks wander through wetlands in search of food while facing constant threats from loose dogs.

At once exaltation and elegy, this documentary profiles the natural history of North Carolina's Outer Banks, a seascape of transitory barrier islands...