Best Short Films by Director
2807
76
1904
Georges Méliès
Georges Méliès
Comedy / Short / Fantasy / Drama
France
French (Silent)
2756
69
1906
Miles Brothers
Short / Experimental / Documentary
USA
English (Silent)
2582
55
1944
Gjon Mili
Lester Young, George 'Red' Callender, Harry Edison
Short / Music
USA
English
2689
62
1925
Kenji Mizoguchi
Hiroki Hoshino, Yoshiko Okada
Short / Drama / Comedy
Japan
Japanese (Silent)
2860
93
1989
Tracey Moffatt
Akira Fitzgerald, Elizabeth Gentle, Agnes Hardwick, Marcia Langton
Short / Drama
Australia
English
2756
69
1979
Sylvia Morales
Carmen Zapata, Alicia Escalante, Francisca Flores, Dolores Huerta
Documentary / Short / History
USA
English
2792
73
1984
Luc Moullet
Luc Moullet, Jean Abeillé, Yann Lardeau, Jacques Robiolles
Short / Experimental
France
French
2792
73
1988
Luc Moullet
Françoise Buraux, Richard Copans, Luc Moullet
Short / Documentary / Comedy
France
French
2792
73
1991
Luc Moullet
Luc Moullet, Noël Simsolo, Jean Narboni
Short / Documentary / Comedy
France
French
2756
69
1973
Caroline Mouris, Frank Mouris
Frank Mouris
Animation / Short / Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2756
69
1928
Harold Muller, Charles R. Bowers
Charles R. Bowers, Buster Brodie, Kathryn McGuire, Blue Washington
Short / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2689
62
1910
Eugene Mullin, Charles Kent
Julia Swayne Gordon, Charles Kent, Florence Turner, Edith Storey, Tefft Johnson
Short / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2582
55
1929
Dudley Murphy
Duke Ellington, Fredi Washington, Arthur Whetsol
Drama / Short / Music
USA
English
2756
69
1929
Dudley Murphy
Bessie Smith, Hall Johnson Choir, James P. Johnson, Jimmy Johnson, Alec Lovejoy
Drama / Musical / Short
USA
English
2817
77
2010
Toni Myers
Leonardo DiCaprio, Scott D. Altman, Gregory C. Johnson, John M. Grunsfeld
Documentary / Short
Canada
English
2756
69
1966
Johnny Nelson
Documentary / Short / Experimental
USA
English (Silent)
2756
69
1966
Johnny Nelson
Documentary / Short / Experimental
USA
English (Silent)
2418
41
1912
George Nichols
Marie Eline, Ethel Wright, James Cruze, Lila Chester, William Russell
Short / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2756
69
1914
Mabel Normand
Mabel Normand, Charles Bennett, Charley Chase, Harry McCoy, Eva Nelson, Al St. John
Short / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2805
75
1979
Yuri Norstein
Aleksandr Kalyagin
Animation / Short / Experimental
Soviet Union
Russian
2689
62
1907
Sidney Olcott
Herman Rottger, William S. Hart
Short / History / Action / Religion
USA
English (Silent)
2689
62
1910
Sidney Olcott
Sidney Olcott, Gene Gauntier, Thomas O'Connor, Arthur Donaldson, J.P. McGowan
Drama / Short / Adventure / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2006
24
1928
James Parrott
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy, Thelma Hill
Comedy / Short / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2193
30
1930
James Parrott
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Fay Holderness, Charles McMurphy, Dorothy Granger
Short / Comedy / Family
USA
English
2807
76
1931
James Parrott
Charley Chase, Thelma Todd, Dorothy Granger, Kay Deslys, Carlton Griffin
Comedy / Short
USA
English
2807
76
1927
James Parrott
Charley Chase, Edna Marion, Bull Montana, Mickey Bennett, Louise Carver
Comedy / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2792
73
1963
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Orson Welles, Vittorio La Paglia, Laura Betti, Mario Cipriani
Comedy / Drama / Short / Religion
Italy / France
Italian
2807
76
1953
Don Patterson
Grace Stafford, Dal McKennon
Family / Animation / Short / Comedy
USA
English
2689
62
1918
R.W. Phillips
Sam Robinson, Walter Brogsdale, Robert Duree, Samuel 'Sambo' Jacks, Yvonne Junior
Comedy / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2756
69
1975
Mimi Pickering
Documentary / Short / History
USA
English
2807
76
1954
Arthur Pierson
Vincent Price, Andy Clyde, Alan Hale Jr., Thurston Hall, Lloyd Corrigan
Drama / Short
USA
English
2807
76
1990
Bill Plympton
Ruth Maleczech, Valeria Vasilevski, Maureen McElheron, Chris Hoffman
Animation / Comedy / Short
USA
English
1232
10
1903
Edwin S. Porter
A.C. Abadie, Walter Cameron
Short / Action / Crime / Western
USA
English (Silent)
2418
41
1903
Edwin S. Porter, George S. Fleming
Vivian Vaughan, Arthur White, James White
Short / Action
USA
English (Silent)
2689
62
1906
Edwin S. Porter
Kitty O'Neil, Walter Griswoll, H.L. Bascomb, W.R. Floyd, E.M. Leslie, N.B. Clarke
Short / Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2689
62
1905
Edwin S. Porter
Thomas H. Ince
Short / Comedy / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2689
62
1902
Edwin S. Porter
Comedy / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2807
76
1965
Gerald Potterton, Buster Keaton, John Spotton
Buster Keaton
Comedy / Short
Canada
English (Silent)
2689
62
1910
Frank Powell
Henry B. Walthall, Jack Pickford, Florence Barker
Short / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2807
76
1918
Paul Powell
Carmel Myers, Rudolph Valentino, Lydia Yeamans Titus, Alfred Allen, Fred Kelsey
Comedy / Short / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2807
76
2016
Ben Proudfoot
Gloria Cheng, John Williams, Alexandre Desplat, Randy Newman, Michael Giacchino
Documentary / Short / Music
USA
English
2792
73
1925
Vsevolod Pudovkin, Nikolai Shpikovsky
Vladimir Fogel, Anatoly Ktorov, Anna Zemtsova, Yuliy Rayzman
Comedy / Short
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
2689
62
1907
Teuvo Puro, Louis Sparre
Eero Kilpi, Teuvo Puro, Teppo Raikas, Alex Rautio, Jussi Snellman
Comedy / Short
Finland
Finnish (Silent)
2849
87
1986
Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay
Feliks Stawinski
Short / Experimental
UK
English
2689
62
1928
Man Ray
Kiki of Montparnasse, André de la Rivière, Robert Desnos
Short / Experimental
France
French (Silent)
674
4
1936
Jean Renoir
Sylvia Bataille, Georges D'Arnoux, Jane Marken
Drama / Short / Romance / Comedy
France
French
2792
73
1927
Jean Renoir
Catherine Hessling, Pierre Braunberger, Johnny Huggins
Short / Comedy / Drama / Musical
France
French (Silent)
2792
73
1928
Jean Renoir, Jean Tédesco
Catherine Hessling, Amy Wells, Jean Storm, Manuel Raaby
Short / Drama
France
French (Silent)
836
7
1955
Alain Resnais
Michel Bouquet, Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, Julius Streicher
Documentary / Short / History / War
France
French
2792
73
1958
Alain Resnais
Pierre Dux, Sacha Vierny
Documentary / Short
France
French
2792
73
1956
Alain Resnais
Jacques Dumesnil
Documentary / Short
France
French
2807
76
1938
Dick Rickard
Don Wilson
Comedy / Family / Animation / Short
USA
English
2689
62
1915
Hal Roach
Harold Lloyd, Jane Novak, Roy Stewart
Comedy / Short / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2807
76
1929
Hal Roach
Edgar Kennedy, Eddie Dunn, Irma Harrison, Ben Hall, May Milloy
Short / Comedy
USA
English
2807
76
1920
Hal Roach, Fred C. Newmeyer
Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Roy Brooks, Sammy Brooks, William Gillespie
Comedy / Short / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2807
76
1931
Hal Roach
Zasu Pitts, Thelma Todd, Elizabeth Forrester, Eddie Dunn, Donald Novis
Comedy / Short
USA
English
2807
76
1921
Jess Robbins
Stan Laurel, Florence Gilbert, Oliver Hardy, Jack Lloyd, Owen Evans
Comedy / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2807
76
1922
Jess Robbins
Stan Laurel, Glen Cavender, Vera Reynolds, Joy Winthrop, Mae Laurel
Comedy / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2807
76
1963
Eric Rohmer
Barbet Schroeder, Claudine Soubrier, Michèle Girardon
Romance / Short / Drama
France
French
2689
62
1908
Vladimir Romashkov
Yevgeni Petrov-Krayevsky
Short / History
Russia
Russian (Silent)
2807
76
1928
Murray Roth
Jack Born, Elmer Lawrence
Short / Comedy / Music
USA
English
2807
76
1929
Murray Roth
The Gotham Rhythm Boys, Eddie Lewis, Tom Miller, Lou Monte
Short / Music
USA
English
2807
76
1929
Murray Roth
Harry Fox
Short / Comedy / Music
USA
English
2807
76
1929
Murray Roth
Oklahoma Bob Albright, Genevieve Herbert, Bertha Muller
Short / Comedy / Music
USA
English
2792
73
1977
Raoul Ruiz
Eva Simonet, Robert Darmel, Silke Humel, Frank Lesne
Short / Experimental
France
French
2756
69
1954
Denis Sanders
Corey Allen, Barry Atwater
Short / Drama / War
USA
English
2807
76
1929
Victor Saville
Estelle Brody, Ray Bauduc, Vic Breidis, Benny Goodman, Jimmy McPartland
Short / Music
UK
English
2832
82
1967
Carolee Schneemann
Carolee Schneemann, James Tenney
Short / Experimental
USA
English (Silent)
2807
76
1965
Alan Schneider
Buster Keaton, Nell Harrison, James Karen, Susan Reed
Short / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2807
76
1929
Eugen Schüfftan
Carl Balhaus, Alice Iversen, Theo Lingen, Aribert Mog, Hélène Robert
Short
Germany
German (Silent)
2756
69
1898
William Selig
Gertie Brown, Saint Suttle
Short / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2689
62
1912
Mack Sennett
Ford Sterling, Mabel Normand, Fred Mace
Comedy / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2689
62
1912
Mack Sennett
Ford Sterling, Edgar Kennedy, Charles Avery, Bobby Dunn, George Jeske, Hank Mann
Comedy / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2689
62
1913
Mack Sennett
Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Mabel Normand, Mack Sennett
Comedy / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2689
62
1913
Mack Sennett
Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Hank Mann, Mabel Normand, Ford Sterling, Al St. John
Comedy / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2689
62
1912
Mack Sennett
Mabel Normand, Mae Busch, Edward Dillon, Fred Mace, Mary Maxwell, Mack Sennett
Comedy / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2807
76
1935
Ben Sharpsteen
Tommy Bupp
Family / Comedy / Animation / Musical / Short
USA
English
2752
67
1912
Dorothy G. Shore
Martin Fuller, Mrs. William Bechtel, Walter Edwin, Ethel Jewett
Drama / Short / Experimental
USA
English (Silent)
2644
61
1913
Phillips Smalley, Lois Weber
Lois Weber, Val Paul, Douglas Gerrard, Sam Kaufman
Short / Drama / Thriller
USA
English (Silent)
NR
-
1926
Dick Smith
Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Zeppo Marx, Jobyna Ralston
Comedy / Short / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2756
69
1956
Harry Smith
Short / Animation / Experimental
USA
English (Silent)
2689
62
1910
Harry Solter
Florence Lawrence, King Baggot
Short / Crime / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2689
62
1910
Harry Solter
Florence Lawrence, King Baggot, Owen Moore
Short / Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2807
76
1933
Babe Stafford
Bing Crosby, Florine McKinney, Irving Bacon, Franklin Pangborn, Arthur Stone
Comedy / Musical / Short
USA
English
2689
62
1912
Wladyslaw Starewicz
Short / Animation / Comedy
Russia
Russian (Silent)
2689
62
1912
Wladyslaw Starewicz
Animation / Short / Fantasy / Family
Russia
Russian (Silent)
2756
69
1951
Frank Stauffacher
Vincent Price
Experimental / Documentary / Short
USA
English
2756
69
1939
Ralph Steiner, Willard Van Dyke
Morris Carnovsky
Documentary / Short
USA
English
2756
69
1921
Paul Strand, Charles Sheeler
Short / Experimental / Documentary
USA
English (Silent)
2792
73
1989
Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet
Andreas Yon Rauch, Vladimir Baratta, Howard Vernon
Short / Drama
France
German
2792
73
1968
Jean-Marie Straub
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Hanna Schygulla, Lilith Ungerer
Short / Drama
West Germany
German
2807
76
2012
David Strohmaier
Stanley Livingston, Paula Drake, Elizabeth Dominguez, Matt Brewbaker
Short / Documentary
USA
English
2807
76
1931
Harry Sweet
Edgar Kennedy, Pert Kelton, Franklin Pangborn, Georgie Billings, Arthur Housman
Comedy / Short
USA
English
2807
76
1944
Frank Tashlin
Mel Blanc, Richard Bickenbach
Animation / Family / Short / Comedy / Music
USA
English
2792
73
1947
Jacques Tati
Jacques Tati, Paul Demange
Short / Comedy
France
French
2807
76
1941
Riley Thomson
Walt Disney, Ward Kimball, Fred Moore, Thurl Ravenscroft
Family / Animation / Comedy / Short
USA
English
2807
76
1937
Jacques Tourneur
Carey Wilson, Ernie Adams, Erville Alderson, Virginia Brissac, Philo McCullough
Short / History / Mystery
USA
English
2689
62
1913
Laurence Trimble
John Bunny, James Prior, Sidney Hunt, Fred Hornby, Arthur Ricketts, H.P. Owen
Comedy / Short
UK / USA
English (Silent)
2756
69
1912
Laurence Trimble
John Bunny, Flora Finch, Leah Baird, Charles Eldridge, William R. Dunn
Comedy / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2792
73
1958
François Truffaut
Michel François, Gérard Blain, Bernadette Lafont
Family / Comedy / Short / Drama
France
French
2853
89
1999
Peter Tscherkassky
Barbara Hershey
Short / Horror / Experimental
Austria
English (No Dialogue)
2756
69
1966
Mary J. Tsosie, Maxine Tsosie
Documentary / Short / Experimental
USA
English (Silent)
2689
62
1910
Otis Turner
Patrick Long, Johnnie Mullens, Charles Fuqua, Henry Grammar, Tom Mix
Short / Western
USA
English (Silent)
2689
62
1910
unknown
John Bunny, Kate Price
Comedy / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2689
62
1914
unknown
Fred Evans
Comedy / Short
UK
English (Silent)
2756
69
1928
unknown
Daniel Joseph Jenkins
Documentary / Short / Music
USA
English
2756
69
1937
unknown
Herbert Morrison
Short / Documentary / History
USA
English
2756
69
1906
unknown
Documentary / Short / History
USA
English (Silent)
2756
69
1946
unknown
Gloria Blondell
Animation / Short / Documentary / Family
USA
English
2807
76
1927
unknown
Carter DeHaven, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Jackie Coogan, Douglas Fairbanks
Comedy / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2807
76
1928
unknown
Val Stanton, Ernie Stanton
Short / Comedy
USA
English
2807
76
1922
unknown
Ramon Novarro, Jack Warner, Max Linder, Vola Vale
Documentary / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2807
76
1917
unknown
Pedro León
Documentary / Short / Western
USA
English (Silent)
2807
76
1938
unknown
Django Reinhardt, Stéphane Grappelli
Short / Documentary / Biography / Music
UK
English
2807
76
1930
unknown
Franklin Pangborn, Helen Ferguson, Ruth Lyons, Clara Blandick
Comedy / Short
USA
English
2807
76
1944
unknown
Leon Errol, Martha O'Driscoll, Lois Collier, Milburn Stone
Short / War / Documentary / History
USA
English
2807
76
1934
unknown
Leo Carrillo, Ted Fio Rito, The Debutantes, Eduardo Durant's Rhumba Band
Short / Music
USA
English
2807
76
1942
unknown
Billy Bletcher, Pinto Colvig, Walt Disney, John McLeish
Animation / Family / Comedy / Short / Music
USA
English
2807
76
1932
unknown
Patsy Kelly, Roy Fant, Judy Garland, Marjorie Beebe, Janet Reade
Short / Musical / Comedy
USA
English
2633
60
2003
various
Andrea Arnold, Stephen Daldry, Mike Leigh, Christopher Nolan, Ridley Scott
Short / Documentary / Comedy / Drama
UK
English
2756
69
1913
George Veditz
George Veditz
Documentary / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2807
76
2007
Peter Ventrella
Peter Bogdanovich, Bruce Dern
Documentary / Short / Biography
USA
English
2783
71
2003
Nacho Vigalondo
Marta Belenguer, Nacho Vigalondo, Antonio Tato, Borja Cobeaga
Musical / Short / Comedy
Spain
Spanish
189
3
1933
Jean Vigo
Jean Dasté, Robert le Flon, Du Verron, Delphin, Léon Larive
Comedy / Short / Drama
France
French
2807
76
1920
James Vincent
Marguerite Namara, Rudolph Valentino, Albert L. Barrett, Henrietta Simpson
Short / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2807
76
1946
Gunther von Fritsch
Charles Reineke, Ben Hall, Ralph Montgomery, Gil Perkins, Jason Robards Sr.
Short / Drama / Documentary
USA
English
2601
57
1928
James Sibley Watson, Melville Webber
Herbert Stern, Hildegarde Watson, Melville Webber, Friedrich Haak, Dorthea House
Short / Horror / Experimental
USA
English (Silent)
2740
66
1933
James Sibley Watson, Melville Webber
Friedrich Haak, Hildegarde Watson, Dorthea House, Lewis Whitbeck
Short / Drama / Experimental
USA
English
2807
76
1929
William Watson
Billy Bevan, Dot Farley, Otto Fries, Natalie Joyce, Will King, Jean Harlow
Comedy / Short
USA
English
2563
52
1936
Harry Watt, Basil Wright
John Grierson, Stuart Legg
Short / Documentary
UK
English
2807
76
1996
Robert Watzke
Helen Slater, Bruno Kirby, Robert Watzke, John Apicella, Barbara Brown
Short
USA
English
2792
73
1958
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, Dan Tobin, Joi Lansing, Rick Jason
Short / Experimental
USA
English
2807
76
1938
Orson Welles
Joseph Cotten, Virginia Nicholson, Edgar Barrier, Arlene Francis, Ruth Ford
Short / Comedy
USA
English
2807
76
2011
Stevie Wermers, Kevin Deters
Billy Connolly
Animation / Short / Family / Fantasy
USA
English
2807
76
1933
Jack White
Milton Berle, Norma Taylor, Mary Cole, Gertrude Mudge, Henry King
Comedy / Musical / Short
USA
English
2807
76
1940
Jules White
Andy Clyde, Shemp Howard, Vernon Dent, Lynton Brent, Richard Fiske, Bud Jamison
Comedy / Short
USA
English
2807
76
1953
Jules White
Moe Howard, Shemp Howard, Larry Fine, Benny Rubin, Frank Sully, Phil Arnold
Comedy / Short / Crime
USA
English
2807
76
1953
Jules White
Shemp Howard, Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Philip Van Zandt, Tom Kennedy
Comedy / Short
USA
English
2807
76
1925
Sering D. Wilson
Animation / Comedy / Short / Sports
USA
English (Silent)
2783
71
2004
Alexander Woo
Dan Blank, Nicola Russell, Lolita Sahwany
Animation / Short / Adventure
USA
English
2807
76
1929
Hal Yates
Edgar Kennedy, Stuart Erwin, Anita Garvin, Marion Byron, Spec O'Donnell
Short / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2737
65
1963
Abraham Zapruder
John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, John Connally
Documentary / Short / History / Crime
USA
English
