Welcome to our resource center for documentary lovers and filmmakers. The Library @ NW Doc includes a collection of non-fiction films, books, and this lovely blog. The library and resource center was established to support and promote NW Documentary's mission to encourage and inspire those with a love for storytelling.
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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
I have two new discoveries to share, documentaryguide.com and explore.org. Documentary Guide claims to be the largest database on the Internet with “tens of thousands of films, schools, and festivals” indexed. Documentary guide is designed for educators and researchers and works like a search engine for films on the web. From their homepage you can simply enter your research topic and it will bring up links to full link films available online. Very cool and the website is pretty slick too.
Explore.org showcases philanthropic based media and is also an excellent resource for educators and researchers. The films produced and available on their website vary in length but most seem to be under ten minutes. This site also features a wide variety of themes from science and nature to cultural films to human rights activism.
Cooking Up a Story is an “online television show and blog about food and sustainable living.” The site features short documentary videos, interviews with experts on agriculture, cooking, and sustainability, cooking demonstrations, and recipes. It really is a neato website and beautifully designed. One could easily spend hours sifting through all of their resources—if one was interested in such things as artisan chocolates and goat farming of course.
4 Docs
A great website dedicated to a love of short documentaries. Check out their wiki for filmmaking tips and their “view” page to watch a bunch of great shorts.
FleetFlicks: Support the Short
First I would like to say that these guys have a great website. Well designed and easy to use, wow. Second, there website also has really great content, wow again.
Fleet Flicks is a website with that exists with the goal to “redesign what short film can be” by providing a place where quality short films can be displayed on the web giving new filmmakers a place to showcase their work and connect with other filmmakers. Anyone can submit a film to FleetFlicks but they won’t all make it online. The staff at FleetFlicks hand-picks films they believe fit their guidelines in an effort to keep home videos of your kitten falling into a glass of water off their site. As long as your film is under 10 minutes and tells a story it will most likely be accepted. Documentary films are accepted but they are severely out-numbered on the site by narrative films.
Submit films here and help them beef up their collection of docs!
The Documentary Group
I love this blog!
The Documentary Group is a Tumblr blog that allows members and non-members to submit documentary trailers or links to full length films online. This is a great place to explore independent documentary films or share your film and connect with others in the film making community.
