Where to Watch Oscar-Winning Short Films for Free

Short Film, Animated

Beautiful Men (2025)

Nicolas Keppens · YouTube

Letter to a Pig (2024)

Tal Kantor · YouTube

My Year of Dicks (2023)

Sara Gunnarsdottir · Vimeo

Ice Merchants (2023)

Joao Gonzalez · YouTube

The Flying Sailor (2023)

Amanda Forbis, Wendy Tilby · YouTube

Bestia (2022)

Hugo Covarrubias · Archive.org

Genius Loci (2021)

Adrien Merigeau · Vimeo

Sister (2020)

Siqi Song · YouTube

Kitbull (2020)

Rosana Sullivan · YouTube

Weekends (2019)

Trevor Jimenez · Vimeo

One Small Step (2019)

Andrew Chesworth, Bobby Pontillas · YouTube

Late Afternoon (2019)

Louise Bagnall · YouTube

Bao (2019)

Domee Shi · YouTube

Negative Space (2018)

Max Porter, Ru Kuwahata · YouTube

Garden Party (2018)

Victor Caire, Gabriel Grapperon · YouTube

The Danish Poet (2007)

Torill Kove · Archive.org

Harvie Krumpet (2004)

Adam Elliot · YouTube

For the Birds (2002)

Ralph Eggleston · YouTube

A Close Shave (1996)

Nick Park · Archive.org

Bob's Birthday (1995)

Alison Snowden, David Fine · Archive.org

The Wrong Trousers (1994)

Nick Park · Archive.org

The Man Who Planted Trees (1988)

Frederic Back · Archive.org

A Greek Tragedy (1987)

Nicole Van Goethem · Archive.org

Anna & Bella (1986)

Cilia van Dijk · Archive.org

Tango (1983)

Zbigniew Rybczynski · Archive.org

Crac (1982)

Frederic Back · Archive.org

The Fly (1981)

Ferenc Rofusz · Archive.org

Every Child (1980)

Derek Lamb · Archive.org

Special Delivery (1979)

Eunice Macaulay, John Weldon · Archive.org

Sand Castle (1978)

Co Hoedeman · Archive.org

Great (1976)

Bob Godfrey · Archive.org

Closed Mondays (1975)

Will Vinton, Bob Gardiner · Archive.org

The Crunch Bird (1972)

Ted Petok · Archive.org

Documentary Short Subject

Incident (2025)

Bill Morrison · Vimeo

The Barber of Little Rock (2024)

John Hoffman, Christine Turner · YouTube

Stranger at the Gate (2023)

Joshua Seftel · YouTube

Haulout (2023)

Evgenia Arbugaeva, Maxim Arbugaev · YouTube

Hunger Ward (2021)

Skye Fitzgerald · Pluto TV

Do Not Split (2021)

Anders Hammer · YouTube

Colette (2021)

Anthony Giacchino · YouTube

St. Louis Superman (2020)

Smriti Mundhra, Sami Khan · Plex

In the Absence (2020)

Yi Seung-jun · YouTube

A Night at the Garden (2019)

Marshall Curry · YouTube

Lifeboat (2019)

Skye Fitzgerald · YouTube

Black Sheep (2019)

Ed Perkins · YouTube

Traffic Stop (2018)

Kate Davis, David Heilbroner · Plex

Educating Peter (1993)

Thomas C. Goodwin, Gerardine Wurzburg · Archive.org

The Johnstown Flood (1990)

Charles Guggenheim · Archive.org

Witness to War: Dr. Charlie Clements (1986)

David Goodman · Archive.org

Flamenco at 5:15 (1984)

Cynthia Scott · YouTube

Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist (1980)

Saul J. Turell · Archive.org

Czechoslovakia 1968 (1970)

Robert M. Fresco, Denis Sanders · Archive.org

Why Man Creates (1969)

Saul Bass · Archive.org

The Redwoods (1968)

Mark Harris, Trevor Greenwood · Official

To Be Alive! (1966)

Francis Thompson · Archive.org

Nine from Little Rock (1965)

Charles Guggenheim · Official

Chagall (1964)

Simon Schiffrin · YouTube

The True Story of the Civil War (1957)

Archive.org

The Alaskan Eskimo (1953)

Archive.org

Neighbours (1952)

Norman McLaren · Archive.org

Why Korea? (1950)

Archive.org

Seeds of Destiny (1946)

Archive.org

Hitler Lives? (1945)

Don Siegel · Archive.org

With the Marines at Tarawa (1944)

Louis Hayward · Archive.org

December 7th (1943)

John Ford, Gregg Toland · Archive.org

Churchill's Island (1942)

Stuart Legg · Archive.org

Short Film, Live Action

A Lien (2025)

Sam Orti · Vimeo

Red, White and Blue (2024)

Nazrin Choudhury · YouTube

Knight of Fortune (2024)

Lasse Lyskjaer Noha · YouTube

Invincible (2024)

Vincent Rene-Lortie · TV5MONDE+

Night Ride (2023)

YouTube

On My Mind (2022)

YouTube

Feeling Through (2021)

YouTube

Nefta Football Club (2020)

Vimeo

Brotherhood (2020)

YouTube

Fauve (2019)

YouTube

Detainment (2019)

Tubi

Skin (2019)

Guy Nattiv · Archive.org

DeKalb Elementary (2018)

YouTube

The Shore (2012)

Terry George · Official

Six Shooter (2006)

Martin McDonagh · YouTube

Angel and Big Joe (1976)

Archive.org

Short Subject, Cartoon

A Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass Double Feature (1967)

John Hubley, Faith Hubley · Archive.org

The Dot and the Line (1966)

Chuck Jones · Archive.org

The Critic (1964)

Ernest Pintoff · YouTube

The Hole (1963)

John Hubley, Faith Hubley · Archive.org

Moonbird (1960)

John Hubley · Archive.org

Knighty Knight Bugs (1959)

Friz Freleng · Archive.org

Birds Anonymous (1958)

Friz Freleng · Archive.org

Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom (1954)

Ward Kimball, Charles A. Nichols · Archive.org