Social Documentary Movies

Poets from all walks of life speak their truth through their poetry. A film about poetry by award-winning Gina Nemo, Poet, Writer, Filmmaker,...

Pasolini seeks in Africa the peasant and revolutionary authenticity he had sought in the Roman villages. This hope will end in a new disappointment:...

Nine very private encounters with different people of the post-war generation and their memories of childhood and youth. Among others, the guitarist...

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...

There is a small town in Austria called Pinkafeld, which gained adverse publicity as a “Nazi village” during the presidential election of...

The trembling starts in his neck when Markus gets closer to the images that have chased him for 49 years. Now he steers his motor home south, as far...

The documentary focuses on the youth movements that overthrew governments in countries such as Georgia, Ukraine, Serbia, Kyrgyzstan and other former...

In 2006, Panama's health system by mistake manufactured and distributed over 200 thousand bottles of common cold medication with a substance called...

This documentary recounts the turbulent history surrounding the troubled desegregation of New Hanover County Public School System in North Carolina...

The incredible story of how gay men and women went from being the ultimate outsiders to occupying the halls of power, with a profound influence on...

The protests of 1968 had a significant impact on the great cities of the world. But people like to forget that the periphery went through the same...

Images complement what is always lacking in words. The poems complement what is always present in the city. Freely inspired by the poetry Cidade City...

Drivers of urban public transport in Bogotá do not receive a fixed salary¸ only a percentage per passenger picked up. Through the...

The story of the documentary The Sorrow and the Pity (1971), directed by Marcel Ophüls, which caused a scandal in a France still traumatized by...

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

In Pakistan, veils hide one of the country's most terrible secrets. Driven by revenge, jealousy or sexual non-co-operation some men subject their...

Facts about American police officers

A short, three minute documentary exploring audio recordings from the year 1894 to 1922, layered over home-footage from the year 1920 to 1985, as an...