Social Documentary Movies

The story was born from the pen of debutante Callie Khouri: Thelma, married to a macho man, and Louise, an independent waitress, go on a girls'...

When a feminist filmmaker sets out to document the mysterious and polarizing world of the Men’s Rights Movement, she begins to question her own...

What would American democracy look like in the hands of teenage girls? In this documentary, young female leaders from wildly different backgrounds in...

The true story of a young teenage girl whose mother is incarcerated for murder. Living in a Catholic Children's home run by an order of nuns, she...

Ten years after an enormous open-pit gold mine began operations in Malartic, the hoped-for economic miracle is nothing more than a mirage. Filmmaker...

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

We are engulfed in a digital tsunami—a toxic mix of artificial intelligence, state and corporate surveillance, and social media addiction...

The definitive documentary on the history of nudity in feature films from the early silent days to the present, studying the changes in morality that...

The former talk show host speaks out from behind the glass at an assisted living facility where a restrictive guardianship has made her a 'prisoner.'

In buildings where foreign workers lived in Germany, there were strict rules of conduct, defined by the house rules and supervised by the building...

A rock documentary, about the Mexican band Molotov, that focuses more in the political and musical context of Mexico rather than in the actual story...

RAI documentary filmed in 1996 about Angola, whose people, after more than ten years of anti-colonial struggle and twenty of civil war, still suffer...

The church is the body of Christ. In Greece, the church embodied a philosophy. Then in Rome, it became an institution. Spreading throughout Europe,...

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

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...

In the spotlight of global media coverage, the first transgender woman ever to perform as Don Giovanni in a professional opera, makes her historic...

The first film in what would ultimately become Zilnik’s famed Kenedi trilogy follows street hustler Kenedi Hasani and his friend as they roam...

What happened to those vedettes who represented the mexican cabaret’s exotic beauty in the ‘70s and ‘80s? Four decades after the...