Social Documentary Movies

Seven Damascenes, eight years apart, one collective trauma. This is the story of a city and the psychological scars its people bear from years of war.

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...

Xan García, in search of the meaning of things, interviews 13 classmates to discuss and reflect on life. They talk about death, love,...

A documentary about socialising and society in early 1970s New Zealand.

Children parade through the streets of Hinton St George in Somerset on the last Thursday of October. Children have hollowed out pumpkins or...

Forget the neon lights and cherry blossoms — this is Japan like you’ve never seen it. In this gripping short documentary, Omar Farooq...

Two shocking documentaries where the neighbors of Cuba 111 and the passengers of a taxi traveling on the Malecón speak without fear and say...

In 2016 eleven young men from Parade Gardens in Kingston, Jamaica travelled to Scotland for the first time, bringing their powerful parkour...

Sarah Kamya is a school counselor in New York City. She began the project Little Diverse Libraries on June 3rd and has already raised over $13,000,...

American Philosopher is a collection of eight short films by Philip McReynolds, a philosophy lecturer and amateur filmmaker. McReynolds has recorded...

Filmed on the 60th anniversary of the republic, this dark-humor documentary delves on the highs and lows of living in North Korea.

"My Socialist Home" is a documentary film exploring the significance of gender in the constitution of domestic space in the socialist and...

A journey around Norway to seek out regular drug users of the country and tell their untold stories about drug use and discrimination.

As Puerto Rico falls deeper and deeper into an unprecedented crisis this is Vietnam’s story, a community or barrio located on the coast of...