Social Documentary Movies

1972 in Haute-Savoie (France) : the Bertrand's farm, with a hundred dairy cows owned by three bachelor brothers, is filmed for the first time. In...

Serif, the manager of a launderette in London’s Bethnal Green, dedicates her time to her regulars. Serving cups of tea and listening to their...

Moullet explores the causes and consequences of cases of mental disorders that were especially numerous in the Southern Alps.

Rosanna Arquette talks to various actresses about the pressures they face as women working in the entertainment industry.

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

Documentary covering the current state of both the theoretical and practical development of the various scientific basic principles that served, as...

A Matter of Land recounts the first year of application of Colombian's Land Restitution Act from the perspective of a community who decide to engage...

Over one thousand people have been charged with storming the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, as part of a widely televised insurrection...

In the summer of 1959, as a magazine correspondent, writer and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-75) traveled along the Italian coast. In 1963, he...

A documentary following the civil rights movement and how the media, in particular the burgeoning TV, was used to fight for equality in the 1960s....

After losing his job during lockdown, Natan signs up to a microtask website. Having become a “Turker” alongside tens of thousands of...

OUTREMONT AND THE HASIDIM reveals the challenges of accommodating the “Hasidim” – or ultra-Orthodox Jews – in the affluent...

"I often say sociology is a martial art, a means of self-defence. Basically, you use it to defend yourself, without having the right to use it for...

Documentary about stunts and their recognition in the film industry. Without their selfless contribution to film, the movies we know and love, would...

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

Depicts what happens when students K-8 discuss LGBT-related topics in age-appropriate ways. Shot in six public and private schools (in San Francisco...