Experience a collection of short films from The New Yorker. The short docs from The New Yorker Documentary offer uncommon perspectives on global issues, while the fictional short films from The Screening Room spark curiosity.

Thirty years after the IRA ceasefire in Northern Ireland, this experimental archive film looks at Margaret Thatcher's farcical broadcasting ban that saw actors hired to dub those associated with terrorism.

"Criminal" is an animated musical documentary short film that confronts the injustice of people held at the Harris County Jail in Houston, Texas. The vast majority are there because they can't afford due process and don't have enough cash to pay their way out while awaiting trial. Because they are poor, thousands are held for months or even shipped to jails out of state when they are supposed to be presumed innocent.

A self-involved therapist at a crisis phone line clashes with a depressed caller.

Bestselling novelist Gary Shteyngart's piece for The New Yorker about his botched circumcision went viral. In “The Guy Who Got Cut Wrong,” Shteyngart delves deeper into the trauma, ultimately proclaiming in his tragic-comic voice, “This country broke my penis, but it couldn't break my spirit."