Every Short Documentary at the Oscars 2001-2024

Tells the story of four unassuming heroes who ensure no student is deprived of the joy of music. It is also a reminder of how music can be the best medicine, stress reliever and even an escape from poverty.

Reveals the voices of the impacted parties of books banned from school districts, inspiring hope for the future through the profound insights of inquisitive youthful minds.

The work of Arlo Washington, an African-American barber who founded a nonprofit community bank dedicated to providing economic opportunities for their community that mainstream banks will not offer.

S. Leo Chiang reflects on his relationship with Taiwan, the United States and China from the islands of Kinmen, just a few miles from mainland China.

A personal love letter from director Sean Wang to his Nai Nai and Wài Pó, a grandma super team that dances, stretches, and farts their sorrows away.

Bomman y Bellie, una pareja del sur de la India, dedican sus vidas a cuidar del pequeño Raghu, un elefante huérfano con el que forman una familia sin igual.

Un dedicado biólogo marino sigue cada año a las morsas, en Chukotka, en el Ártico ruso, donde documenta a los animales y las consecuencias del cambio climático en su ciclo de vida.

From the time she was two years old and until she turned 18, they had a ritual: Dad asked (and filmed), and Ella answered. What do you dream about? What scares you? What do you think about our relationship? This is a little story about growing up and the love between father and daughter.

The Cabinet wife who spoke out during Watergate and the Nixon administration's campaign to gaslight her into silence.

A U.S. Marine plots a terrorist attack on a small-town American mosque, but his plan takes an unexpected turn when he comes face-to-face with the people he is about to kill.

Queen of Basketball is an electrifying portrait of Lucy Harris, who scored the first basket in women's Olympic history and was the first and only woman officially drafted into the N.B.A. Harris has remained largely unknown - until now.

A mind-boggling coincidence leads the filmmaker to track down his fifth grade class and fifth grade teacher to examine their memory of and complicity in a bullying incident 50 years ago.

Sigue el paso a la edad adulta de Amaree McKenstry, un atleta de la Escuela para Sordos de Maryland.

A través de emotivas historias que relatan lo que significa vivir sin hogar en la costa oeste de Estados Unidos, este documental aborda una crisis humanitaria en aumento.

Even as Shaista's love for Benazir is palpable, the choices he must make to build a life with her have profound consequences.

Los nazis ocuparon Francia. La resistencia requiere coraje. Setenta y cinco años después, enfrentarse a los propios fantasmas puede llevar incluso más tiempo.

A virtuoso jazz pianist and film composer tracks his family's lineage through his 91-year-old grandfather from Jim Crow Florida to the Walt Disney Concert Hall.

The story of the 2019 Hong Kong protests, told through a series of demonstrations by local protesters that escalate into conflict when highly armed police appear on the scene.

Filmed from inside two of the most active therapeutic feeding centers in Yemen, HUNGER WARD documents two female health care workers fighting to thwart the spread of starvation against the backdrop of a forgotten war. The film provides an unflinching portrait of Dr. Aida Alsadeeq and Nurse Mekkia Mahdi as they try to save the lives of hunger-stricken children within a population on the brink of famine.

Las injusticias en torno al asesinato de la quinceañera Latasha Harlins en una tienda de Los Ángeles se convirtieron en el detonante de la revuelta civil de 1992 en la ciudad.

Learning To Skateboard In A Warzone (If You're A Girl) is the story of young Afghan girls learning to read, write-and skateboard-in Kabul.

Documents the sinking of a South Korean Ferry. As a result of the ineptitude of the first response to the emerging situation, hundreds of people, mostly children lost their lives.

In the grip of trauma, hundreds of refugee children in Sweden withdraw from life's uncertainties into a coma-like illness called Resignation Syndrome.

Bruce Franks Jr. is a 34-year-old battle rapper, Ferguson activist and state representative from St. Louis, Missouri. Known as Superman to his constituents, he is a political figure the likes of which you've never seen - full of contradictions and deep insights, who has overcome unspeakable loss to become one of the most exciting and unapologetic young leaders in the country. This short verité documentary follows Bruce at a critical juncture in his life, when he is forced to deal with the mental trauma he's been carrying for the nearly 30 years since his 9-year-old brother was shot and killed in front of him, in order to find peace and truly fulfill his destiny as a leader for his community.

Paul and Millie Cao lost their youth to the aftermath of the Vietnam War. Forty years later, they have become successful professionals in Southern California-and are rediscovering themselves on the dance floor.