Documentary Short Films

348 films · 60 h 4 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
• The Cinema That Never Was — 6 min, 2025, dir. Mark Wachholz
• Majid Rabet – Engineer, Inventor and Artist — 4 min, 2022, dir. Powerhouse
• Serial Parallels — 9 min, 2021, dir. Max Hattler
• While You Were Sleeping — 7 min, 2021, dir. Anderson Wright
• The Real Thing — 5 min, 2012, dir. Public Record
• Nothing at Stake — 9 min, 2020, dir. Criterion Collection
• Lions in the Corner — 9 min, 2019, dir. Paul Hairston
• That's My Jazz | A Breakwater Original — 14 min, 2019, dir. Breakwater Studios Ltd.
• KAHOLOʻAʻĀ (Director's Cut) — 4 min, 2019, dir. Bradley Tangonan
• Mexican Handcraft Masters / CARA DE DIABLO — 6 min, 2018, dir. Mariano Rentería Garnica
• Birth Control Your Own Adventure — 5 min, 2018, dir. Sindha Agha
• Room On Fire — 5 min, 2018, dir. Topic
• The Tables — 15 min, 2018, dir. Jon Bunning
• Mexican Handcraft Masters / COPPER — 5 min, 2018, dir. Mariano Rentería Garnica
• Sanderson to Brackettville — 8 min, 2018, dir. Parker Hill
• A Prickly Subject — 4 min, 2018, dir. Helen Plumb
• Winter's Watch — 14 min, 2017, dir. Brian Bolster
• 500 MILES — 37 min, 2017, dir. Heroes and Horses
• The Nihang Warriors of India - NOWNESS — 8 min, 2017, dir. NOWNESS
• Gui Martinez: A Short Film and Photo Essay — 4 min, 2017, dir. poweredby.tokyo
• ALL IN — 4 min, 2017, dir. Paul Theodoroff
• The 1000 Days — 6 min, 2017, dir. Ivan Olita
• Broken Dreams // Sebastien Zanella — 7 min, 2017, dir. Gabriel Novis
• The LGBTQAlphabet — 5 min, 2017, dir. Jordan Bahat
• Rotatio — 4 min, 2015, dir. NonQuixote
• MUXES — 9 min, 2016, dir. Ivan Olita
• Train Surfers | Documentary — 15 min, 2017, dir. Adrien Cothier
• Chekhov — 5 min, 2016, dir. Jack Dunphy
• When Day is Done — 5 min, 2016, dir. Lefty
• ONWARD — 6 min, 2016, dir. Cale Glendening
• Simon Beck - Snowartist — 6 min, 2016, dir. #inspirasjonstryn
• Edouard Martinet | Insectophile — 6 min, 2016, dir. Sladmore Gallery
• The New Che of Havana — 7 min, 2016, dir. Alex Ramírez-Mallis
• MissMe: The Artful Vandal — 4 min, 2016, dir. Even/Odd
• Jen Mann: The Self Practice — 14 min, 2016, dir. Cameron Bryson
• Nowhere Line: Voices from Manus Island — 15 min, 2016, dir. Lukas Schrank
• Cutaway — 7 min, 2015, dir. MDFF
• Kinabuhi — 14 min, 2015, dir. spur Films
• InFrame - Jessica Lehrman — 5 min, 2015, dir. InFrame
• Sticky — 20 min, 2013, dir. jilli rose
• SEAN — 12 min, 2014, dir. Ryan Reichenfeld
• the caregiver — 7 min, 2014, dir. Eliot Rausch
• Artist Spotlight: Tony Anderson — 5 min, 2014, dir. Musicbed
• Marie's Dictionary — 10 min, 2014, dir. EmergenceMagazine.org
• Philip Seymour Hoffman on Happiness — 5 min, 2014, dir. Patrick Smith
• Rigsketball — 4 min, 2014, dir. JULIET ZULU
• Delivery — 10 min, 2014, dir. NO WEATHER
• The Deadly Cost of Fashion — 5 min, 2014, dir. The New York Times
• Wall Dogs of NYC — 4 min, 2014, dir. Vocativ
• Street Angel — 4 min, 2014, dir. Stella Scott
• After Trayvon — 5 min, 2014, dir. Alex Ramírez-Mallis

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