Documentary Short Movies

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

The lack of clean drinking water in Karakalpakya from the view of the well builders. A well made on request yields spoiled unpotable water. A good...

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Travelogue produced by Burton Holmes. Released on January 7th, 1918.

Released in 1901

In the wake of cataclysmic regional change in the artist's homeland of Hong Kong, Simon Liu’s Cinema-Strobo-Scopic film features a laborious...

1906, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Released in 1901

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Geisha performance, with umbrella and fans, in Kyoto.

Released in 1915, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

A portrait of the city of Zagreb, as it was in 1943.

This short documentary tells the story the once-thriving town of Okak, an Inuit settlement on the northern Labrador coast. Moravian missionaries...

Released in 1901

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

A group of filmmakers shadow some glamour photographers in order to discover the skill involved in getting 'magic' to appear on the photos.

Poles forcibly displaced from the eastern lands after 1945 tell about their experiences, recall that difficult period when they had to leave their...

World-renowned snowboarders Travis Rice and Elias Elhardt team up with legendary director Curt Morgan for a celebration of space and time filmed in...

An interview with Caroline Munro about the making of Maniac.