Social Documentary Movies

A filmmaker captures her wife’s journey of high-risk pregnancy, birth, and early motherhood in this short documentary. Consequently, she...

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...

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

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

A documentary about the marginalisation of the LGBTQIA+ cultural and artistic scene in Salvador.

A documentary taking its cues from children's imaginative flights of fancy.

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.

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

The Westboro Baptist Church is notorious for pissing people off across the political spectrum. The most common way to become a member is to be born...

Women in China is a timely two-part documentary on the conditions of women in today's economically -oriented Chinese society. By visiting four...

A retired bricklayer wants his grandson, who lives hundreds of miles away, to stay with him. Will he convince the young man despite the lack of...

A documentary about the Charlotte, North Carolina Punk scene

In the 1970s, the first manifestations of gay, lesbian and transvestite rights in Spain took place. In 2005, Spain became the third country in the...

This film is the result of a two-year oral history project which collected the stories of people living and working in Douglas, gathering reflections...

The Jeepney is a common affordable transportation in the Philippines. Made from abandoned American Jeeps during World War II, the Jeepney remains a...