Social Documentary Movies

Follow the lives of the elderly survivors who were forced into sex slavery as “Comfort Women” by the Japanese during World War II. At...

An exploration of the 'respectable' and 'immoral' stereotypes of women in Indian society told from the point of view of two striptease dancers in a...

The Broken Brothers Brass Band visits the Andrés Muñoz Garde public special education school in Pamplona. And through their interaction...

What does the looming A.I. revolution mean for us as individuals and as a society?

In a photograph among journalists, writers, academics and artists was a controversial president of Mexico and the unusual guest who owes the name of...

We are taken behind the scenes of a play in-the-making: The play is Samuel Beckett’s WAITING FOR GODOT—starring a group of young...

Aging parents of disabled adults, they worry about their child's life after their disappearance. A moving insight into the daily life of a family...

In times of environmental crises and human beings’ growing alienation from nature, some thinkers are questioning the prevailing anthropocentric...

A history of the Spanish Transition told in first person by the main protagonists: on the one hand, the politicians, idealistic or merely...

"BATTLEGROUND" is a short documentary film conceived by Kwesi Thomas and Mark Bone which came to life through conversations immediately following the...

When an academic unearths a forgotten history, residents of the small township of Pukekohe, including kaumātua who have never told their...

October 1st, 1957. Dusk descends on Tiananmen Square, Peking. Fireworks crackle light across the night sky, above a city alive with National Day...

Banksy is a household name, but behind this name hides a multitude of stories, artworks, stunts, political statements and identities, leading to one...

Frederick Wiseman is back to school, this time at Central Park East Secondary School (CPESS), a successful alternative high school in New York's...

An American journalist, a British sake brewer and the president of a centenary Japanese sake brewery join together to explore the mysterious world of...

Since the rise to power of Hindu nationalists in 2014, India has been gradually moving away from democracy towards a regime where ethnic identity...

Every day they have to fight to exist. Immigrants and Afro-descendants in Brazil - one of the most racist countries in the world - move to overcome...

A documentary film by Canadian Director Debra Kellner, produced by Frank Giustra, Serge Lalou, and Richard Copans. Inside My Heart chronicles the...

After losing his job during lockdown, Natan signs up to a microtask website. Having become a “Turker” alongside tens of thousands of...