Social Documentary Movies

After the impressive Gulistan, Land of Roses (VdR 2016),the Kurdish filmmaker Zaynê Akyol returns with these conversations with imprisoned members of...

An explosion in one of the largest chemical plants in Europe, the Petrochemical complex in Tarragona, triggers the labour struggle of a group of worke...

With an off beat sense of humour, the film looks at the politics and glamour of lipstick and the dilemmas of the modern woman in a marketed world.

Leah and Purity are rangers in the Kenyan bushland. They roam around Amboseli National Park every day to track down wildlife. The Maasai shepherds als...

How the Monuments Came Down is a timely and searing look at the history of white supremacy and Black resistance in Richmond. The feature-length film-b...

Documentary short film that follows a man on his last day at work and his first day as a retiree.

Heleno has a disease unknown to most of the population. In the course of their suffocating routine, situations arise that defy the usual in society. B...

Edward R. Murrow narrates Humphrey Jennings' short documentary about life in England during wartime.

The Jeepney is a common affordable transportation in the Philippines. Made from abandoned American Jeeps during World War II, the Jeepney remains a sy...

#standwithme examines the realities of modern-day slavery, the role we play in it as consumers, and the importance of knowing the story behind what we...

Performative and expository documentary, which highlights the contrast of experience among transgender men in Brazil. The short film brings five chara...

RAI documentary filmed in 1996 about Angola, whose people, after more than ten years of anti-colonial struggle and twenty of civil war, still suffer d...

In the drug world, most stories revolve around men. But this one is about women. Some caught in the middle, some in the mix. And one, a true queenpin.

Documentary where we know the work done by specialized teachers with students face barriers of learning and participation, to present a condition of d...

A haunting story of the FBI's dark hand in American life. In 2015, Khalil Abu-Rayyan was just a young Muslim man in Detroit, Michigan: to get by, he...

In 1996, Women's Educational Media released their groundbreaking documentary Its Elementary-Talking About Gay Issues in School. It's Still Elementary...