Movies: Documentary short

In If play is neither inside nor outside, where is it?, Helen McCrorie takes us to Cultybraggen Camp in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. Originally built during World War II as a prisoner-of-war camp, Cultybraggen has also functioned as an army training ...

Why box? Is it the thrill of competition, or the lure of commercial riches, the chance to compete at the Olympics, or a simple need to test oneself. This film details the motivations of the Belfast boxing fraternity, as juniors and veterans, amateurs...

“Let’s think of nature as a big room. Nature is a room you know you’ll have to leave some day, most likely not by choice”. Heather Phillipson’s hallucinatory video put the goat in the goat boat explores endless declinations of nature—natural, naturin...

An inside look at the making of Feud: Bette and Joan....

PT Boat Video by ELCO during World War II....

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A cinematic dysfunction based on found footage and manipulated lost films that come together to rethink modern society. The perversity of control, power, consumption, compared to images designed to enhance the sensory side, are some of the topics cov...

This film is about Japanese traditional bamboo craft....

Fly-on-the-wall documentary footage of a film crew shooting a horror scene in Mumbai....

South Africa's first and only all-female, anti-poaching unit, fighting to rescue their country's rhinos from the edge of extinction....

CAFÉ TOGO looks at the efforts to change street names with colonial connotations in the so-called Afrikanisches Viertel (African Quarter) in Berlin-Wedding. According to Berlin’s street law, every street named after a person honors that person. Peter...

1939 short documentary by Belgian filmmaker on pianter Hans Memling....

Expurrimental documentary about two cats and the humans in their lives....

Documentary about Montreal, old French city and modern metropolis. Thanks to its secular churches, its old houses, its old markets, Montreal retains some features of its former face. But its art galleries, its universities, its airport, its sorting s...

Dan Hardy is a champion. He isn’t delusional about exactly where his talents lie: “I get paid to beat people up,” he has said at the Canadian/USA border when asked by border patrol what he does for a living. He’s not your average MMA fighter, howev...

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 importance of basic trade union practice and the need to defend the right to have independent trade unions...

Geisha performance, with umbrella and fans, in Kyoto....

The Working Cat’s Guide to the Klondike by Veronica Verkley, is a short documentary film recalling the traditional practice of Cat Sledding, which was unique to the area of Dawson City, Yukon, in Canada’s far north. The film combines archival photog...

British cult classic The Prisoner has been hailed as the most bizarre, mind-boggling television series of all time. Even though the series was produced more than twenty years ago, it is more popular today than when it originally aired. If you've neve...

Menhaden: The Most Important Fish in the Bay examines the role of a little-known, oily, little fish in the Chesapeake Bay. From its original concept as a classic man-versus-environment story, the film evolved to reflect the complexity of sustaining a...