Social Documentary Movies

Transgender baritone Lucia Lucas prepares to perform the title role in Mozart's Don Giovanni at Tulsa Opera, navigating the artistic and personal...

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

Kenzo Okuzaki, a 62-year-old anarchist veteran of the New Guinea campaign in World War II, sets out to conduct interviews with survivors and...

We admire beauty; we recoil from bodies that are marred, disfigured, different. Didier Cros’ moving, intimate film forces us to question what...

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

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

Examines the implications of Christian Nationalism, how it distorts not only our constitutional republic, but Christianity itself, and asks the...

Raising Bertie is a longitudinal documentary feature following three young African American boys over the course of six years as they grow into...

In this unprecedented primetime program, 50 volunteers take part in experiments without knowing that the aim of the program is to understand the...

55 years ago, on October 1 1968, the first brand advertising spot appeared on the French television screen. Over the next three decades, thousands of...

Today in France, one in five young people suffers from severe depressive symptoms, and the number of minors visiting psychiatric emergency rooms has...

As anger and resentment grow in the face of social inequalities, many citizens-led protests are being repressed with an ever-increasing violence. In...

In November 2017, a devastating earthquake hit western Iran. It took only 13 seconds to lose everything. This is a fleeting observation of the days...

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...

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

The Game of Death is a documentary co-produced by France Télévisions and Radio Television Switzerland1 in 2009 and staging a fake game...

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

Documentary short about Mexico's femicide crisis.

The stories of a group of Latina migrant mothers whose kids have been taken away by an unfair system in Italy.