Documentary Short Movies

A documentary short that uses fish to explore identity and belonging in a metropolis.

Short documentary about the making of the 1938 film "Jezebel."

Searching for a connection with her mysterious, austere grandfather, Ora DeKornfeld travels to his childhood home in Hungary, where she is swept up...

Mysterious and only superficially explored by generations of the native Aborigines, Australia's Great Barrier Reef is one of the world's most...

As a Cholera epidemic rages in Haiti, the United Nations denies it is responsible for introducing the disease despite glaring evidence suggesting...

Documentary on the Mayan culture.

Desert Killer is a 1952 short film directed by Larry Lansburgh about a hunter tracking a sheep-killing mountain lion. The film was nominated for an...

Nature documentary meets Disney-style cute in this Animaland animated short.

Kang Aries and Kang Oca are two cultural observers of Kujang who try to provide a justification perspective on the Kujang Philosophy made by one of...

A discovery of the pictorial art that Ndebele women traditionally practice in South Africa: painting the walls of their houses.

This short documentary focuses on a man-made island that became the first federal sanctuary for wildlife in Canada. Situated an hour east of...

A program made for Kultura on the life and career of Larisa Shepitko.

The making of “The Devil’s Backbone” by Guillermo del Toro.

Longyearbyen, Svalbard, is the northernmost settlement in the world. About 3000 polar bears and 400 snow scooters outnumber its 2700 inhabitants. It...

As the Himalayan glaciers vanish, a cellist and a Bhutanese folk singer come together across cultures and generations to honour an ancient story...

Unable to return to Colombia, Francisco Godoy searches for belonging in the Netherlands. Alongside fellow newcomers Liu and Aleksandr, he rebuilds...

A documentary behind the scenes of Peter Bogdanovich's 'The Cat's Meow' (2001).

Through the story of Rocky, a rescued orangutan whose intelligence and empathy rival our own, Orang. Utan. explores the radical question of whether...

A Deep Dive into the life of Stephen Zivkovic, the owner of the last DVD rental store in Adelaide.

Some 1960s hackers known as phone phreaks found a way to avoid long-distance charges. Two of those phreaks just happened to be students named Steve...