The Best Documentary Short Films
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Strange Beasts | A Young Keeper's Tale of Danger at a Big Cat Safari
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Telos or Bust | The Town That Believes in the Inner-Earth
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Hormonal | Experiences with Contraception told through a Dancer’s Body
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Stud Country | A Documentary About the History of Queer Line Dancing
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Ketamine Therapy Offers Hope for a Firefighter Struggling with PTSD | An Act of Service | Op-Docs
The New York Times
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Cigales (Cicadas) | Get Ready for Summer in this Sun-Soaked Short Documentary
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UR HEINOUS HABIT | Animated Documentary about Masturbation
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Holy Cowboys | Indian Short Film about Sacred Cows
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Wild Magnolias Documentary | The Rite of Passage of the Mardi Gras Indian
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A Couple in a Room Smoking Cigarettes | Experimental Documentary about Love
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Trying Out for the US Open Ball Crew | Ball People | GQ Sports
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The Internet’s Guide to Starting a Farm | Chicken Stories | The New Yorker Documentary
The New Yorker
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Seven Actors on Playing a Sephardic Immigrant | The Victorias | The New Yorker Documentary
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Joe Buffalo | Skateboarding to Survive | Documentary Short
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Somewhere Higher | Weed Love Stories
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Belongings | A Short Film about Loss
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Strikers | Short Documentary about Wii Bowling Team
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The Last Tape | Ukrainian Documentary Short Film
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Kachalka | Short Doc on Open Air Gym in Kyiv, Ukrainian
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The Christmas Light Killer | Documentary Short Film by James P. Gannon
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Dream World | Short Doc about Turning People's Fantasies into Film
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Night Ride | Short Doc about Cats, Laughter and Grief
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The Chaperone | Animated Documentary Short
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Wifi Rider | Documentary about a Viral Palestinian Fashion Designer
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Round and Round | Roller Derby Team Built on Friendship and Community
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Do you see what I see? | Short Doc about Controversial Conspiracy Theorist Artist David Dees
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Footsteps | How Movie Sounds are Made. An Inside Look at the World of the Foley Artist.
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Récit de soi | Lou's Recount of Childhood and Navigating Non-Binary Representation | LGBT Short Film
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Field of Vision - Do Not Split
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Still Here (還在) | Award-Winning Sundance Documentary Short Film
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My Brother’s Keeper: a former Guantánamo detainee, his guard and their unlikely friendship
The Guardian
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Church and the Fourth Estate
The Intercept
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Patty Are You Bringing Weed in from Jamaica? | Animated Short Film About 1960s Cannabis Culture
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Award-Winning Documentary Short About The Effects of War | Exit 12
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Animated Documentary Short Film | Music & Clowns
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Who The F*ck Is Jeffrey Gurian? | Documentary Short About Comedy and Fame
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Queer at prom: True stories from 7 different decades | Take Me To Prom
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Lowland Kids | Climate Change Threatens Two Teenagers' Family Home
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The Grass is Always Greener on TV | Documentary Short Film
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Dance Roller Skating Unifies a Community in Los Angeles | L.A. ROLL
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Quilt Fever | A 2020 SXSW Documentary Short
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The Clinic | A Documentary Short Film from Elivia Shaw
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Field of Vision - In the Absence
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My American Surrogate | Documentary Short Film by Leslie Tai
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The Driver is Red | Animated Documentary Short Film | Short of the Week
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Albatross Soup | Can You Solve this Animated Short Film Puzzle? | A short by Winnie Cheung
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IVRY | Documentary Short Film
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The Guy: The Brian Donahue Story | Documentary Short Film
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Maesteg | Welsh Short Documentary by Theodore Tennant | Short of the Week
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In The Space Between the Ages | A Short Documentary by Travis Lee Ratcliff
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THE COLLECTION - A remarkable $10M movie memorabilia discovery
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IRREGULARS - A refugee story with mannequins. Award winning short documentary
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Erik Aguilar, BMX Rider | TAILWHIP
UNINTERRUPTED
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No One Is Safe From Son of Sam | PIX11 Digital Doc
PIX11 News
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Richard Twice: A Musical Life Interrupted | Op-Docs | The New York Times
The New York Times
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