Documentary Short Movies

A look at the Lake District and its famous poet.

Produced by Burton Holmes. Released on December 28th, 1919.

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

This short documentary tells the story the once-thriving town of Okak, an Inuit settlement on the northern Labrador coast. Moravian missionaries...

Short documentary about a German electrician who settled and started a family in the mountainous region of Lika.

A thrilling incident showing a climber ascending a cleft or chimney by hanging on with his finger tips and pushing his back and knees into opposite...

A community of Armenians, refugees from the Soviet Union during the Baku pogroms, live in a deep American province. Baku life, Armenian blood, Soviet...

Departure of the steamer from Interlaken, and giving throughout its entire length, a film picture of exceptional beauty. The stereoscopic effect is...

We have our poor people and the east has its starving millions; even in far-away Ceylon there are many kind hearts beating beneath dark skins, and it...

A five-year-old boy is completely uninterested in food, which results in conflicts with his mother. The effort she invests in feeding him is equal to...

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

1901, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Travelogue produced by Burton Holmes. Released on May 20th, 1918.

Travelogue released on the 29th of May, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Released on the 21st of September, 1919. Produced by Burton Holmes.

A picture of life in the South Australian capital of Adelaide in the mid 1960s, social, commercial and recreational.

Travelogue released on June 10th, 1918. Directed & produced by Burton Holmes.

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Two children are directed by a cinemaker.