Desert Movies

Secrets and mysteries lose power when they are spread too widely. This is what the villagers discover when they invade an old man's vision-inspired...

A short documentary about Father Christmas' annual six-day trek through the Australian desert aboard the Tea and Sugar Train.

In the heart of the desert a cowboy receives a gun from the gods... With wrath at his heels he must fulfill the prophecy and escape the desert alive

This short travelogue, touring Arizona's deserts, was shot in VistaVision.

Three people looking for a better life become stranded in the desert with little hope of survival.

A sublime documentary on childhood and bereavement that’s one of several shorts the filmmaker completed while working in Algeria for Georges...

The engineer Manuel Iglesias is commissioned to supervise the expansion of the ChihuahuaPacífico railway; for this he wants his adopted son...

A thirsty man searches for water in the desert.

A genetically-engineered virus, meant for good, but never before tested on humans, has found a host. This is the story of four desperate people who,...

A collection of seven little stories about Niger and its Sahara desert from the illustrated book by Hideko Fukuda & Masanori Inui.

A mysterious woman wakes up left for dead in the desert and makes her way to a small town to enact her revenge.

A desperate survivor races for the most valuable resource in a dangerous and desolate wilderness.

Survival! is a 22-minute, Alan Madison-directed instructional wilderness survival film focusing on safety techniques. It is often described as a...

Documentary-essay short film about a inner/outter trip to the flowery desert in the north of Chile. A student film by Gabriel Lizama AKA Liz Taylor.

On a hot day in the unforgiving desert, two hungry and solitary beasts find themselves in the proximity of a partially devoured carcass. They must go...

In West Africa, Polish intelligence sergeant Milczek discovers the bandit Sheikh Abdullah’s desert stronghold but is captured until the...

A rancher, thrown from his horse, must cross an inhospitable desert and avoid those who live there.

Marina is a girl who discovers the legends and traditions of her ancestors on a magical journey through the nature that surrounds her and takes her...

On a cold desert night, a drifter and his dog make camp — but eerie sounds stir the dark, and ancient creatures crawl from the shadows.