Social Documentary Movies

A series of interviews featuring linguist, philosopher and activist Noam Chomsky done in hand-drawn animation.

Documentary showing the efforts to bring cinema to marginalized communities in Mexico.

One night seven years ago, Rafael came home after work and discovered that people he did not know had come looking for him. He immediately fled,...

Cruelty, psychological and sexual violence, humiliations: reality television seems to have gone mad. His debut in the early 2000s inaugurated a new...

Inmates at a prison in Rome rehearse for a performance of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.

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...

More than two decades after the shooting at Columbine, an entire generation has grown up under the threat of gun violence. This film examines the...

Ossie Davis, Terry McMillan, Horace Julian Bond, Isaac Hayes, Dionne Warwick and many others share their inspiring stories of success in the first...

Fox Rich, indomitable matriarch and modern-day abolitionist, strives to keep her family together while fighting for the release of her incarcerated...

October 2018, France. Macron’s government decrees a tax increase on the price of fuel. A wave of protests starts to grow. Citizens mobilize...

GREAT NORTH: A RUN. A RIVER. A REGION is a documentary film about the Great North Run, a half marathon from Newcastle to South Shields.

The official sequel to the original shockumentary presents a series of bizarre, shocking and grotesque cultural rituals, practices and events from...

Today, against a backdrop of sharply increasing demand, growth in the world population and the growing impact of an unsettled climate, water has...

The film retraces the events of the Reggio Calabria revolt and reconstructs, with images of the protagonists and places, the atmosphere of those...

An account of the last two centuries of the Anthropocene, the Age of Man. How human beings have progressed so much in such a short time through war...

The Specials don’t just write memorable songs - they soundtrack moments in history. This film explores how the band’s music was...

El Gusto is the story of an orchestra of Jewish and Muslim musicians torn apart by war 50 years ago, and recently reunited for an exceptional...

A documentary about the social impact of the hot dog on American Culture. Follow the crew as they travel across the country to explore the many...

Sharon-Rose Khumalo, a South African beauty queen, faces an identity crisis after discovering she's intersex. Her path crosses with Dimakatso Sebidi,...