Social Documentary Movies

A cheap, powerful drug emerges during a recession, igniting a moral panic fueled by racism. Explore the complex history of crack in the 1980s.

Matt Walsh's controversial doc challenges radical gender ideology through provocative interviews and humor.

The successes and failures of a couple determined to live in harmony with nature on a farm outside of Los Angeles are lovingly chronicled by...

Under the pretext of fighting terrorism or crime, the major powers have embarked on a dangerous race for surveillance technologies. Facial...

The documentary investigates the lives and characters of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump as they seek the presidency. In a historic election, those...

While The Rolling Stones rehearse "Sympathy for the Devil" in the studio, an alternating narrative reflects on 1968 society, politics and culture...

Paul Bedel will be 75 soon. He's and old bachelor, a peasant, a fisherman and a verger. He lives in a farm from another time with his two sisters,...

Maria Luiza da Silva is the first transgender in the history of the Brazilian Armed Forces. After 22 years of work in the military, she retired due...

For the first time, survivors talk about life after the camps. How does one return to a life that was interrupted with such violence? How does one...

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain, as it was in...

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...

Using testimonies by pioneers and witnesses of the times, delve into the feverish visual culture the media generated – with far-fetched...

These children live in the four corners of the earth, but share the same thirst for learning. They understand that only education will allow them a...

Over one thousand people have been charged with storming the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, as part of a widely televised insurrection...

In 1977, a book of photographs captured an awakening - women shedding the cultural restrictions of their childhoods and embracing their full...

Palermo, Sicily, Italy, 2017. Twenty-five years after the murders of anti-mafia judges Giovanni Falcone, on May 23, 1992, and Paolo Borsellino, on...

How the spirit of unity, which buoyed Britain during the war years, carried through to create a vision of a fairer, united society.

In French Polynesia, transgender people evolve with apparent fluidity in all components of society. Their presence, observed as early as the 18th...