Documentary Short Movies

Sylvia Rosales-Fike is the founder, president and chief executive officer of AnewAmerica Corporation. She has earned the Robert C. Kirkwood Award...

Alice Waters, winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2006 Community Leadership Awards (The John R. May Award) - for transforming our relationship...

On the way to creating a new future, the New Jewish Filmmaking Project is rediscovering the past. 11 young storytellers, ages 15-25, collaborated...

This Ukrainian-Jewish teenager immigrated to San Francisco as a young child. Now on the brink of adulthood, she interviews her grandparents about...

Klaira presents a surprising vision of assimilation and a loving depiction of San Francisco. She and her grandparents explore how the experience of...

From The Basement to the World is a short documentary that tells the story of Joe and Frank's childhoods, the origin of The Basement Yard podcast,...

An intimate confession of a girl who was diagnosed with diabetes at the age of 23, created as an assignment for a Documentary Film course. In the...

A personal look into master carpenter Richard Grell’s woodworking skills and techniques, as he crafts traditional Windsor Chairs from trees...

This documentary follows 14 men and mountaineer Kevin DeVries on a trek to Everest Base Camp as he prepares to climb in the region after a cardiac...

Frank Zappa stopped by the Night Flight studios in 1985 to talk about music videos, censorship, the PMRC and what it's like to play in his band.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at methods of pig breeding in Denmark.

In the hills of rural Pennsylvania, the leader of a local militia must prepare his men for the turbulent political landscape of 2020 while at war...

A POC-led community group’s fight for environmental justice in the Ironbound community of Newark, New Jersey.

An inside look at the making of Feud: Bette and Joan.

How young children must behave to avoid transmitting germs to one another.

Lost Theaters of Wichita has the inside story from those who were there. It’s a tale of two great entertainment palaces—one that barely...

Menhaden: The Most Important Fish in the Bay examines the role of a little-known, oily, little fish in the Chesapeake Bay. From its original concept...

During the summer of 2012, a secret meeting took place. But this was no ordinary gathering; instead, a monumental choice was to be made. Reuniting...

However impressive the site is, however bossy the guides are, the visitors of the Musée Napoléon listen only absent-mindedly. Does this...

A short documentary feature following young German troops in training,