Documentary Short Movies

Tuesdays are days of great excitement in the quiet old town of Berne, when the whole population is bent on getting very much for very little.

This includes the arrival of the old stage, the mail coach and diligence, and a motor car.

A picture of life in the South Australian capital of Adelaide in the mid 1960s, social, commercial and recreational.

Short documentary about a German electrician who settled and started a family in the mountainous region of Lika.

In this heartfelt short film by Jesse Collier Sutterley, Roosevelt Farrow, born in 1929 at the start of the Great Depression, shares his lifelong...

Made as part of the compaign against the Industrial Relations Bill. A trade unionist talks about the crisis he sees in the working classes. The...

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

A mountaineering tour on a glacier in the Alps. The film follows a group of mountaineers as they leave the hostel. Then they climb up fixed ladders...

The final episode in our Mini-Docs series comes from musician and writer Jake Anderson, who explores the niche music genres which find an increasing...

Pinki is a five-year-old girl from a village in the Mirzapur District, India, born into a desperately poor family, and with a cleft lip. Pinki never...

A short anecdotal documentary about the nature of destruction, a debilitating deadlock of humanity.

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Released in February of 1922. Produced by Frederick Burlingham.

A documentary about Fausto Delle Chiaie, an italian artist. He worked in many european countries and spent the last 30 years exhibiting on the...

In Caribou in the Archive, rustic VHS home video of a Cree woman hunting caribou in the 1990s is combined with NFB archival film footage of northern...

Documentary on mountain climbing in the Swiss and Italian Alps.

A portrait of two very different mathematicians, porridge pulleys and Pi features Fields medalist Vaughan Jones, one of the world's foremost knot...

1906, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith