Documentary Short Movies

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Travelogue produced by Burton Holmes. Released on November 23rd, 1919.

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Captured during the events of Euromaidan revolution in Kyiv, Ukraine, an expressive argument looks like something out of the movie by Sergio Leone....

Short movie on Barcelona's "Citadel Park" produced by Segundo de Chomón for Pathé Frères. Directed and filmed by Segundo de...

Cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Bioscoped from a motor. The center of fashion and society in the Bernese Oberland. The rendezvous of the most cosmopolitan crowd in Europe.

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

Erik Løchen struggles to find the midnight sun.

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A record of the ascent of the Jungfrau by Frederick Burlingham accompanied by four mountain guides. The film starts with panoramics of the Eiger...

Released in February of 1921. Produced by Frederick Burlingham.

Featuring the sites and sounds of the Isle of Man in 1958.

This Norwegian sport is much practiced by the Swiss youth as well as the visitors to the winter resorts. Many successful jumps (the unsuccessful...

Produced by Burton Holmes. Released on June 15th, 1919.

In 1810, 20 year old Sara Baartman got on a boat from Cape Town to London, unaware that she would never see her home again, or that she would become...

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

The world's most famous Swede in 1929 is undoubtedly Greta Garbo. Here the photographer has taken her on a boat departing Gothenburg as she returns...

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

A short film that documents three women’s views and treatment of nudity. Body image is the common thread throughout the series, but the...