Social Cultural Documentary Movies

Fleeing religious persecution, resilient Jewish immigrants arrive in Toronto and begin building affordable, quality housing in a growing metropolis.

Quiet towns across rural Australia are in the grip of an Ice epidemic. Major international drug cartels are working with local outlawed motorcycle...

The National Truth Commission, installed in 2011 to investigate crimes committed during a military dictatorship, brought to the public a still very...

Field of Vision and The New Yorker have created a six-part episodic documentary, filmed in 2015, that immerses us in the Syrian refugee crisis....

Andrew Graham-Dixon explores the ancient Christian practice of preserving holy relics and the largely forgotten art form that went with it, the...

Sadio's story is the classical heroes journey and and archetype for African football players. Blessed with exceptional talent, he sets out from his...

A poetic cine-essay about race and Australia’s colonised history and how it impacts into the present offering insights into how various...

Land is supposed to be the embodiment of permanence, but what happens when it's not? What is life like when the nation you live in has an expiration...

The Water Protectors at Standing Rock captured world attention through their peaceful resistance. While many may know the details, this film captures...

As the Internet finally arrives in tiny Bhutan, documentarian Thomas Balmès is there to witness its transformative impact on a young Buddhist...

Widows is a documentary about the wives of pilots, who have been killed while working on the streets of Guatemala City. Being a van or taxi driver in...

The First Year tells the inside story of Jamie Driscoll’s first 12 months as the new North of Tyne Mayor.

PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER ONE looks at the war on drugs from 1968 until today and looks at trigger points in history that took cannabis from being a...

Summer 1936 - The Berlin Olympics, organized by the Nazi regime on the eve of World War II, acted as a grand showcase for a Germany that was...

A documentary on transidentity, accessible to all, with 10 trans people (including one of the directors) participating.

When the immigrants came to America, their cultures entered the "great melting pot." In Michigan's Upper Peninsula Finnish immigrants mixed their...

Ghyslain Raza, better known as the “Star Wars Kid,” breaks his silence to reflect on our hunger for content and the right to be forgotten...