Movies and TvShows featuring "short-documentary" theme.

Oscar-winning filmmaker Julia Reichert reflects on the social, economic and personal forces that led to her career as a pioneering documentarian.

Bomman and Bellie, a couple in South India, devote their lives to caring for an orphaned baby elephant named Raghu, forging a family like no other that tests the barrier between the human and the animal world.

Don't F*#% With John Wick is a short documentary that goes behind the scenes of the 2014 film John Wick, revealing the process behind its intense action sequences and its influence on the action genre as a whole. The documentary features interviews with the film's director, Chad Stahelski, as well as key members of the cast and crew.

Servant of the People: The Story of the Constitution of the United States is a 1937 short directed by Edward Cahn.

The gala dedication ceremonies at the opening of three new major attractions at Disneyland—Matterhorn Bobsleds, Submarine Voyage, and the new Monorail—include a parade down Main Street with appearances by Walt and Roy Disney and members of their families, along with Vice President Richard Nixon and family, and numerous film stars. The celebrations end at night with a fireworks display.

An unexpected hero provided help as Betsy confronted a predator, an institution, and a justice system.

This Pete Smith Specialty short provides a behind-the-scenes look at the Ice Capades practices with ice skating favorites of the time.

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a raccoon spends the night looking for food for his family. After his encounters with a skunk, a frog, and a menacing bobcat, he experiences the dangers in a vacant cabin.

A "Passing Parade" MGM short featuring tennis star Alice Marble

A short film showing the Irish contact sport known as hurling, which is similar to, but much rougher than, American football.

A train ride takes the audience through the rugged countryside to see the Sardinian people of today. Their independence and self-reliance is emphasized. Sheep are tended and the treatment of their wool is depicted. A wedding and a funeral service are shown, as well as the annual “Ardia” festival with horsemen commemorating historical events.

A generational trauma through the lens of an Asian American teenager through food and poetry.

A documentary short featuring various snapshots of Hollywood in the 1930s, including portraits of actors and actresses, scenes from a barbecue and ranch, and footage of tennis players and performers.

One of Disney's "People and Places" series looking at the Polynesian kingdom of Samoa.

In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short, narrator John Nesbitt tells the story of Scandinavian immigrant Annie Swenson, who worked as cook and housekeeper in his family's home while he was growing up.

Considers marvels of modern science: Fingerprints, cosmetics, radio, microbiological research, airplanes.

Portrait of a national icon: iskelmä or popular schlager legend Olavi Virta (1915–1972), as an old, lost and lonely man. When the film was screened for the first time, people all over Finland went ballistic – they couldn't take the sad sight of their tango's greatest voice, the incarnation of postwar wealth and glory in ruins.

Highlights a new system that will enable doctors to operate over long distances.

After the audience is instructed how to use the 3-D glasses they received, demonstrations of three-dimensional films are presented. Various objects move towards the camera, including a ladder being shoved out a window, the slide on a trombone, a woman on a swing, and a thrown baseball.

A Pete Smith short that deals with the newly-created 3-D process.