Documentary Short Movies

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...

In 1992, at the height of the AIDS pandemic, activist Terence Alan Smith made a historic bid for president of the United States as his drag queen...

Released on the 8th of May, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Travelogue produced by Burton Holmes. Released on September 7th, 1919.

In this film, a group of women and children gather sweet, fresh /ole berries and sha roots. The younger women, led by N!ai, bait a nest of wasps. As...

The great glacier of the Selkirks in the Canadian Switzerland is equivalent to thirty Switzerlands of the Overseas. In this picture you are...

Released on the 20th of March, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

For more than 40 years, on an old back street in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood, Jacqueline Margulis’ culinary obsession has...

In 1984 a tiny, anonymous Tipperary village was thrust in to the world's spotlight when US President Ronald Reagan arrived to visit his ancestral...

Travelogue released on the 22nd of January, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

The striking landscapes of rural Sardinia provide the backdrop to this lyrical look at the hardscrabble lives of the region’s shepherds in...

Tut is a 52-year-old fisherman living in Kampot. In spite of the language barrier, he recounts for the first time and without any words his past...

Travelogue released on September 18th, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Released in 1920, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

1924, produced by Frederick Burlingham.

This documentary follows Tamara a 24-year-old, Waria, living in the city of Jogja in central Java, Indonesia, as she struggles to overcome poverty...

Follows native life, copra harvesting, Pago Pago Harbor, and the U.S. Naval Station Tutuila in American Samoa during the early 1930s.

The first half of this Traveltalk entry is spent in the town of Bath, where we learn about the long history and architecture of the area. We then go...

In this documentary Edo Maajka, Bosnian hip hop star talks about war, his life as a refugee, war crimes, forgiving and making peace, nationalism,...

This film shows an idyllic picture of life in the Victorian capital of Melbourne in the mid 1960s.