Social Cultural Documentary Movies

Between scenes from his concert in São Paulo's oft-inaccessible Theatro Municipal, rapper and activist Emicida celebrates the rich legacy of...

A documentary by Justin Arment that explores the 1991 rename of Michigan city 'East Detroit' to 'Eastpointe', and the racially motivated reasonings...

An exploration of the history of the word throughout its inception to present day. Woven into the narrative are poetry, music, and commentary from...

A documentary about the psychological costs of working in Alberta's oil sands and the mental health crisis that's been ignored for a decade.

In this visual essay, Charles Chaplin biographer Jeffrey Vance, author of "Chaplin: Genius of the Cinema", draws upon a wealth of photography as well...

To mark the artist Fernando Botero's 75th birthday, Peter Schamoni made a documentary film about his moving life. Fernando Botero is immediately...

It took his whole life to live and three full years to film Chuck Leavell: The Tree Man. Filmed in four countries with more than 80 interviews from...

There are landscapes that hardly anyone has entered or seen: this film takes the viewer through New Zealand from the southern edge to the...

Golek Garwo is a matchmaking forum, held monthly vis-a-vis in Yogyakarta. Basri (62), a worker who longed for love and one out of hundreds of...

Utquiagvik is the northernmost city in Alaska, located 555 km beyond the Arctic Circle. This meditative documentary follows its young Inuit...

Trans and queer communities shaped carnival traditions in the Canary Islands, exploring their historical role in developing costumes, performances,...

A bare-knuckled critique of corporate America told through the powerful true story of a toxic CEO who evolves from a profits-over-people,...

In the form of a cyber-investigation, this documentary seeks to decode the manosphere and expose its dangers. Journalist Pierre Gault "infiltrated"...

Upon the listing an ad seeking video submissions that discussed one's personal relationship with alcohol, a random collection of people sat down...

Frederick Wiseman observes the ins and outs of the Paris Opera House, including the processes behind seven of their operas: Genus (Wayne McGregor),...

The story of Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) and his masterpiece, The Gulag Archipelago, published in Paris in...

A charismatic Indian-Nepali boy, lives a bohemian life in a remote Himalayan village. As he transitions from childhood to teenagehood, his poetic...

Exploration of the ordinary lives led by women of different classes—a college professor, an unmarried woman, and a seasoned drama artist. They...