Documentary Short Movies

GUERRILLA HABEAS tells their inspiring yet maddening tale, as they rescue a few and many others are swept up by the system.

They’re cute, they’re lovable, and judging by the 26 billion views on over 2 million YouTube videos of them, one thing is certain: cats...

The Making of Amarillo Ramp documents the construction of Robert Smithson's earthwork Amarillo Ramp. At age thirty-five, while photographing the...

How young children must behave to avoid transmitting germs to one another.

A display of a fallen red cedar at Olympic National Park headquarters proclaims in 1349 "Indians live here." TREE BEGINS LIFE INDIANS STILL LIVE HERE...

Arnold Perkins, winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2007 Community Leadership Awards (the San Francisco Foundation Award). Arnolds broad...

In ancient Russian mythology Sirin is a bird with the head of a woman, a Slavic image of the Greek sirens. The ensemble of ancient Russian sacred...

They say that if a daughter looks like a father, then she will certainly be happy. But what if you look like a person whom you have never seen in...

Explores the natural history of the otter, depicted through the fictitious account of a day in the life of Otto the Otter and his mother. The...

A documentary-comedy about insurmountable cross-cultural barriers

A prospective wish is announced at the very beginning: "Imagine a land without ownership". Ownership? Since when? How? Where? With which...

Captured during the events of Euromaidan revolution in Kyiv, Ukraine, an expressive argument looks like something out of the movie by Sergio Leone....

A fond farewell to London's trams - whose peculiarly endearing qualities were discovered only at the threat of their disappearance.

Spanish short documentary film by Antonio de Padua Tramullas.

The film describes the life of the last Macedonian nomadic ethnic group, so called Karakachani. In 18th century, their ancestors, ants of the...

Tatenda Ngwaru left Zimbabwe with sixty dollars and the hope that she would finally find a place she belonged. But for an asylum-seeking intersex...

A young Congolese girl moves to a historical adversary, Burundi, where her efforts to pursue studies are shared with a relentless desire to give back...

Hysteria explores issues surrounding women's emotions and sexuality, and their social manifestations.

Ahead of the state visit to Britain by Chinese Premier Xi Jinping, the BBC's China Editor Carrie Gracie retraces his remarkable career from living in...

Kevin investigates the online traces of a British news reporter who was kidnapped and appeared in several Islamic State propaganda videos.