Social Documentary Movies

Documentary covering the current state of both the theoretical and practical development of the various scientific basic principles that served, as pe...

A documentary on the life of the youth in post-Independence India.

The film is a journey of the director to find an answer behind the trauma that shook her one fine morning at the age of twelve, when she had her first...

American Aloha: Hula Beyond Hawai’i shows the survival of the hula as a renaissance continues to grow beyond the islands. With the cost of living in H...

Morgan Spurlock, Joe Morley and Heather Winters -- the same group of filmmakers that exposed the greasy truth about fast-food "supersizing" -- team wi...

Filmmaker Hare Brasil follows painter, public speaker and street artist Eduardo Marinho as they hit the road aboard Celestina, a worn-down and faulty...

A Calling to Care is the inspiring story of 55 year-old Grace Stanley, a Canadian nurse who left her home and prestigious career behind to answer a ca...

Tjipto Setiyono, 85, is a rickshaw painter. Despite being past his prime, he lives alone in a 3-by-3 meter square boarding room, in which Tjipto’s bru...

Jeffrey Catherine Jones is one of the most revered comic book and fantasy artists of all time and a complex character with an unusual life, an ideal s...

Short documentary about the lives of three girls and the women who rescued them from retrogressive cultural practices in their own Maasai community at...

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

Shot in various villages throughout Yugoslavia, this is a disturbing document of a time when people were stabbing each other with knives without any r...

During quarantine, through a screen, through the network, different speeds, different houses, eyes and hands reflect the life, work and creations of t...

A short retrospective documentary on the struggles of eating disorder.

Cosme and Monica live with their children and grandchildren in Bahia de Kino, a fishing town in the northern State of Sonora, Mexico. They used to cal...

Deep Brazil. Between drifting through a city in the interior of Mato Grosso on the banks of the BR-163, we follow moments of the routine of Ana Rúbia,...