Documentary Short Films
376 films · 91 h 34 min total
Every film here plays through its official YouTube or Vimeo upload — Shortflix is a discovery index, not a host.
- Total Pixel Space — 9 min, 2024, dir. Jacob Adler
- Powers of Ten — 9 min, 1977, dir. Charles & Ray Eames
- Ryan — 14 min, 2004, dir. Chris Landreth
- Glas — 10 min, 1958, dir. Bert Haanstra
- JAILBIRD — 3 min, 2025, dir. Andrew Salter
- Barking Island — 15 min, 2010, dir. Serge Avédikian
- Checkpoint — 6 min, 2023, dir. Áron Filkey, Joss Fong
- Period. End of Sentence. — 26 min, 2018, dir. Rayka Zehtabchi
- Expanded Childhood — 3 min, 2023, dir. Sam Lawton
- 19 Days — 26 min, 2017, dir. Asha Siad and Roda Siad
- A Day in the Night of Jonathan Mole — 33 min, 2020, dir. Donald Brittain
- A Further Glimpse of Joey — 28 min, 2021, dir. Don Owen, this follow
- A Safe Distance — 28 min, 2018, dir. Tina Horne
- Adam'S World — 19 min, 2025, dir. Donna Read
- Aki'Name (on the Wall) — 23 min, 2020, dir. David Millar
- Alain Dubreuil, Alchemist — 26 min, 2022, dir. Manon Barbeau
- Alanna — 26 min, 2023, dir. Julie Plourde
- Amisk — 40 min, 2019, dir. Alanis Obomsawin
- Apples and Oranges — 17 min, 2023, dir. Lynne Fernie
- Back Into the Sun — 29 min, 2020, dir. Fergus McDonell
- Baghdad Twist — 34 min, 2021, dir. Joe Balass
- Banshees Over Canada — 18 min, 2023, dir. James Beveridge
- Beautiful Lennard Island — 24 min, 2014, dir. Beverly Shaffer
- Beauty — 23 min, 2020, dir. Christina Willings
- Beyond Kicks — 28 min, 2021, dir. Gary Toole
- Bilingualism — 29 min, 2023, dir. Arthur Hammond
- Billy Crane Moves Away — 18 min, 2023, dir. Colin Low
- Birth of a Giant — 29 min, 2015, dir. Hugh O'Connor
- Brother 2 Brother — 40 min, 2023, dir. Russell Wyse
- Bush Pilot: Reflections on a Canadian Myth — 23 min, 2013, dir. Norman Bailey
- Canadians Abroad — 30 min, 2022, dir. Don Haldane
- Capital City — 29 min, 2020, dir. Fergus McDonell
- Chair of Gold — 28 min, 2022, dir. Thomas Farley
- Children of Jerusalem - Asya — 30 min, 2021, dir. Beverly Shaffer
- Children of Jerusalem - Gesho — 25 min, 2021, dir. Beverly Shaffer
- Children of Jerusalem - Neveen — 29 min, 2021, dir. Beverly Shaffer
- Children of Jerusalem - Tamar — 30 min, 2021, dir. Beverly Shaffer
- Cigales (Cicadas) — 16 min, 2024, dir. Joanny Causse
- Circle of the Sun — 30 min, 2020, dir. Colin Low
- Deserter — 19 min, 2020, dir. Michel Murray
- Dief — 27 min, 2020, dir. William Canning
- Dresden Story — 29 min, 2021, dir. Julian Biggs
- Fanfares — 29 min, 2023, dir. Barbara Willis
- Festival in Puerto Rico — 27 min, 2022, dir. Roman Kroitor, Wolf Koenig
- French Man, Native Son — 27 min, 2018, dir. Monika Ille
- Gene Boy Came Home — 25 min, 2017, dir. Alanis Obomsawin
- Go to Blazes — 29 min, 2020, dir. Thomas Farley
- Grain Elevator — 16 min, 2015, dir. Charles Konowal
- Hardly Working — 21 min, 2024, dir. Total Refusal
- Harmonium in California — 29 min, 2015, dir. Robert Fortier
- Holstein — 28 min, 2021, dir. Don Owen
- I Want to Be an Engineer — 29 min, 2021, dir. Beverly Shaffer
- Ice Birds — 16 min, 2019, dir. Marc Hébert
- Idle Warriors — 17 min, 2026, dir. Molly Stark
- Island Romance — 30 min, 2014, dir. Donald Ginsberg
- Judoka — 19 min, 2017, dir. Josef Reeve
- Juggernaut — 28 min, 2013, dir. Eugene Boyko
- Kevin Alec — 17 min, 2017, dir. Beverly Shaffer
- King of Blades — 18 min, 2019, dir. Stanley Clish
- Laughter in My Soul — 28 min, 2017, dir. Halya Kuchmij
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