Documentary Short Movies

Released on March 19th, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

"We have only one really tropic state in the good old U.S.A., and that is Florida, and so, just returning from the tropics of the Far East, Mr....

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Footage of the seabirds found in the Shetland Isles. One of a group of films made by Jenny Brown and bought by John Grierson for the GPO Film Library...

Short film made on the production of HOWL OF THE DEVIL.

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...

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

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

The world-famed Simmenthal cattle, bred by Herr Rebmann, are seen leaving the valley for the summer pastures on the Grimmalp. The herds are...

This short shows how a gold-mantled ground squirrel at Crater Lake National Park has learned to solve problems connected with getting food

1901 film of the Mer de Glace, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

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...

1905, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Released in 1901

A documentary about the creation of the novel THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN by Richard Matheson, including the making of a film adaptation, with an...

Things fall apart, but they are also reassembled and given new life, in an enlightened form. Meet the New York based artist and filmmaker Bill...

Released in 1915, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.