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| Need More Than Netflix? These 15 Short Films Are Worth Your Time | Need More Than Netflix? These 15 Short Films Are Worth Your Time |
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| Stuck at home and finished Netflix? These short documentaries are an instantaneous passport around the world. Go to Sundance and SXSW on your phone with our collection of Op-Docs from those festivals, or take in a number of Emmy- and Oscar- nominated films you can’t find anywhere else. Spend seven minutes, or an afternoon, while you see deep space in a way no one has before, be in the zone with Slomo, meet the original fourth member of the Black Eyed Peas. Want to watch more? Our collection of over 300 films is available to watch from anywhere. | Stuck at home and finished Netflix? These short documentaries are an instantaneous passport around the world. Go to Sundance and SXSW on your phone with our collection of Op-Docs from those festivals, or take in a number of Emmy- and Oscar- nominated films you can’t find anywhere else. Spend seven minutes, or an afternoon, while you see deep space in a way no one has before, be in the zone with Slomo, meet the original fourth member of the Black Eyed Peas. Want to watch more? Our collection of over 300 films is available to watch from anywhere. |
| Paul and Millie Cao’s decades-long love story is captured touchingly in this Oscar-nominated film. After a lifetime of struggle and perseverance, they are rediscovering themselves on the dance floor. | Paul and Millie Cao’s decades-long love story is captured touchingly in this Oscar-nominated film. After a lifetime of struggle and perseverance, they are rediscovering themselves on the dance floor. |
| The filmmakers sought to make a portrait of humans in doubt. A high dive seemed like the perfect scenario in the Oscar-shortlisted film. | The filmmakers sought to make a portrait of humans in doubt. A high dive seemed like the perfect scenario in the Oscar-shortlisted film. |
| Kim Hill was a rising singer-songwriter when she met an emerging hip-hop group. For a moment in the 1990s, they were the Black Eyed Peas — until she quit. | Kim Hill was a rising singer-songwriter when she met an emerging hip-hop group. For a moment in the 1990s, they were the Black Eyed Peas — until she quit. |
| After going on the pill at age 11 for painful endometriosis, a young woman says, “I deserve birth control, but I also deserve better birth control” in this Emmy-nominated film. | After going on the pill at age 11 for painful endometriosis, a young woman says, “I deserve birth control, but I also deserve better birth control” in this Emmy-nominated film. |
| After he went blind, the writer and theologian John Hull embarked on a journey to rediscover the world through his other senses. That astonishing process of sensory rebirth was the subject of this Emmy-winning film. | After he went blind, the writer and theologian John Hull embarked on a journey to rediscover the world through his other senses. That astonishing process of sensory rebirth was the subject of this Emmy-winning film. |
| Narrated by David Wain, the Oscar-shortlisted film uses stop-motion animation to tell a moving story of a son’s quest to better understand his father, and a family’s triumph over a history of abuse. | Narrated by David Wain, the Oscar-shortlisted film uses stop-motion animation to tell a moving story of a son’s quest to better understand his father, and a family’s triumph over a history of abuse. |
| In this Emmy-nominated film, a woman’s harrowing journey of surviving the Holocaust stuns both for the creativity of its visual approach and for the unusual combination of tragedy, beauty and catharsis. | In this Emmy-nominated film, a woman’s harrowing journey of surviving the Holocaust stuns both for the creativity of its visual approach and for the unusual combination of tragedy, beauty and catharsis. |
| This Sundance-winning film is a nuanced exploration of how the criminal justice system affects families. | This Sundance-winning film is a nuanced exploration of how the criminal justice system affects families. |
| Enter the charming but undeniably morbid world of Phil Toledano, a prominent New York photographer who spent years obsessively staging the ways he most feared his life might turn out. | Enter the charming but undeniably morbid world of Phil Toledano, a prominent New York photographer who spent years obsessively staging the ways he most feared his life might turn out. |
| What you see is, word for word, an excerpt from what the record shows to have actually unfolded during a deposition in Ohio. | What you see is, word for word, an excerpt from what the record shows to have actually unfolded during a deposition in Ohio. |
| Against the backdrop of the Iraq war, the story of Najah Aboud and Zahed Haftlang is a surprising affirmation of humanity that cuts across political borders in this Oscar-shortlisted film. | Against the backdrop of the Iraq war, the story of Najah Aboud and Zahed Haftlang is a surprising affirmation of humanity that cuts across political borders in this Oscar-shortlisted film. |
| The mission of professional mountain climbers is almost impossibly difficult by design: Their very livelihood is based on achieving the unprecedented. | The mission of professional mountain climbers is almost impossibly difficult by design: Their very livelihood is based on achieving the unprecedented. |
| Rangers in the Democratic Republic of Congo risk their lives for gorillas not only because they believe it is right, but also because they know that the forest and its animals are the key to the region’s stability. | Rangers in the Democratic Republic of Congo risk their lives for gorillas not only because they believe it is right, but also because they know that the forest and its animals are the key to the region’s stability. |
| Part of our Emmy-nominated series “Animated Life,” this film uses paper puppet animation to chronicle the life of the pioneering paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey, who commanded teams of mostly men when it was still exceedingly rare for a woman to lead an archaeological dig. | Part of our Emmy-nominated series “Animated Life,” this film uses paper puppet animation to chronicle the life of the pioneering paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey, who commanded teams of mostly men when it was still exceedingly rare for a woman to lead an archaeological dig. |
| The only thing Slomo loves more than being in the zone is talking about the zone, a realm of pure subjectivity and connectedness that he achieves through skating. | The only thing Slomo loves more than being in the zone is talking about the zone, a realm of pure subjectivity and connectedness that he achieves through skating. |
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| Op-Docs is a forum for short, opinionated documentaries by independent filmmakers. Learn more about Op-Docs and how to submit to the series. Follow The New York Times Opinion section on Facebook, Twitter (@NYTopinion) and Instagram. | Op-Docs is a forum for short, opinionated documentaries by independent filmmakers. Learn more about Op-Docs and how to submit to the series. Follow The New York Times Opinion section on Facebook, Twitter (@NYTopinion) and Instagram. |