Documentary Short Movies

Paris, France. Franz Reichelt wearing the parachute that he designed and invented before ascending the Eiffel Tower. Reichelt stands on a platform...

Showing eight views of the most difficult portions of the railway, including the steepest gradients, practically, hanging on to the sides of the...

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

A short documentary on life in Iceland.

Short documentary about 50 years of history of Czechoslovakia, with archive images.

The Gentleman Boxer: Richard Torrez Jr. is a 30-minute candid look at the rising American heavyweight Richard Torrez Jr. (5-0, 5 KO) ahead of his...

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Soon enough humankind will ascend to space. Who can join that mission? Who has to stay behind? In some places it has already started. Men and...

Travelogue released on the 22nd of May, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

At a marine biology station, a clump of algae reveals polyps, stomachs with limbs, limbs with buds, buds with poison cells. This animal reproduces by...

Travelogue of a trip that occurred over a two-week period. Includes scenic sequences of mountains and lakes such as: Spokane, Washington, Rockies,...

Travelogue produced by Burton Holmes. Released on December 21st, 1919.

Daulatdia is an entire village in Bangladesh dedicated to prostitution. Every day, 1,600 trafficked, enslaved and abandoned women and girls sell...

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

A game of ice-hockey in progress in the Alps.

A 38 minute documentary that investigates why antisemitism exploded in Bay Area High Schools after Hamas attacked Israel on October 7. This comes...

Man's need to create beauty, to interpret the world around him in image and color, has found expression in many forms, from the days of primitive...

Documentary footage showing the alligator in several stages of growth, from babyhood to a ripe old age; a film taken at an alligator farm in...

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