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.

The life of Henri Grouès, known as Abbé Pierre, from his time in the Resistance in WWII to his fights against poverty and for the...

A documentary special that provides a rare view into the real Charles behind the headlines… told in his own words.

We live in a world where the powerful deceive us. We know they lie. They know we know they lie. They do not care. We say we care, but we do nothing,...

Through clippings, the film draws a narrative line between the construction of racism in Brazil and the United States, having as base the European...

The tower block area "Am Kölnberg" has a bad reputation. People who - for any number of reasons - ended up on the edge of society, live here...

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

CHOOSING CHILDREN is a pioneering film about parenting in non-traditional families and helped to open dialogue about the meaning and reality of the...

A feature-length documentary about the film Galaxy Quest and its legacy, celebrating its milestone 20th anniversary.

Frederick Wiseman is back to school, this time at Central Park East Secondary School (CPESS), a successful alternative high school in New York's...

This film takes us on an emotional journey from sacred ground above Byron Bay to Antarctica, Indonesia to Pakistan, and is sure to light a fire under...

The social contract: the rules we follow - and some don’t. Breaking Social uncovers the pattern of corruption and kleptocracy erasing the...

A documentary on the expletive's origin, why it offends some people so deeply, and what can be gained from its use.

Documentary short about Mexico's femicide crisis.

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...

« Emmanuelle » was released 50 years ago. Its main character, played by the young Sylvia Kristel, delve freely into her sexuality,...

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

A family portrait in which the director profiles his grandmother, Odette Robert. Eustache includes in the film the conditions of its production...

Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O and Chris Pontius join the annual race around Europe, have fun in other countries, and get in some trouble along the way.