Social Cultural Documentary Movies

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

The COVID-19 pandemic scars the citizens of Mexico City.

For years, right-wing politicians and pundits have repeatedly criticized the left for playing “the race card” and “the woman...

Pata Seca (1828), a man whose back bore the whip marks of his enslavers , whose eyes held the haunted memory of being forced to breed over 200 slave...

In a world losing itself to screens, teenage mystic Carlo Acutis saw beyond our social media-addicted society and offered an answer—if...

Artist Taylor Denise sets out to make her first painting, which also happens to be her largest work to-date. As she embarks on this creative process...

Claude Monet was an avid horticulturist and arguably the most important painter of gardens in the history of art, but he was not alone. Great artists...

In 1810, 20 year old Sara Baartman got on a boat from Cape Town to London, unaware that she would never see her home again, or that she would become...

Thinley and Nyima are Tibetans in exile in India. Barely able to make a living, they are now expecting a child. Is there still hope despite all these...

In 2001, Jimmy Wales published the first article on Wikipedia, a collaborative effort that began with a promise: to democratize the spreading of...

A fascinating hybrid of performance and video verité, The Continuing Story of Carel and Ferd introduces Carel and Ferd, a couple who allowed...

A documentary film that can best be described as a portrait of an author about and featuring André Forcier. It is the story of an...

A documentary featuring the stories and lived experiences from the Windrush generation in Wales. Through personal narratives, it explores their...

While on the surface Malmi Airport seems like just another airport, it is in fact, an incredibly important historical, cultural, and practical...

In 1900, the eyes of the whole world are on Paris. The World's Fair welcomed 50 million amazed visitors, and the city celebrated itself in a...

Documentary about four urban teenage girls, and their opinions about religion, music and sex.