Social Documentary Movies

Warren Buffett and Bill Gates launched an unusual campaign in June 2010: both agreed to donate half of their fortunes to charity. The filmmakers...

Aim High is a recipient of the San Francisco Community Leadership Awards "for closing the achievement gap through programs that inspire a love of...

Sake is a traditional alcoholic beverage from Japan and is otherwise known as rice wine. Women were prohibited from entering the many large and small...

From the personal to the political, the experiences of diverse women speak of how masculinized and violent the streets still are nowadays. In three...

When filmmaker and musician David Porteous first encountered FatBoy Racing at the NTT IndyCar series race in Toronto, he discovered a team lounging...

The conspiracy film focuses on the youth movements that overthrew governments in countries such as Georgia, Ukraine, Serbia, Kyrgyzstan and other...

In Iraq 2003 Corporal Martin Webster filmed fellow soldiers beating Iraqi youths during rioting in Al Amara. Two years later, a British newspaper...

Assuming your homosexuality when you are American, as surprising as it may seem, is not necessarily straightforward. In the United States, 700,000...

Two British families discuss the challenges they face raising children who identify as a gender different from the one they were assigned at birth.

Fifteen years ago, social networks were seen as a new democratic ferment that, by promoting the dissemination of information and horizontal...

Brazil is going through a political crisis which even representatives of our institutions reproduce speeches that seek to criminalize social...

A documentation of the year of high school of 1970 to 1971 for students and teachers alike at the St. Mark prep-school community, from the 'weird...

In French Polynesia, transgender people evolve with apparent fluidity in all components of society. Their presence, observed as early as the 18th...

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

There is a small town in Austria called Pinkafeld, which gained adverse publicity as a “Nazi village” during the presidential election of...

Quiet towns across rural Australia are in the grip of an Ice epidemic. Major international drug cartels are working with local outlawed motorcycle...

'Don't build prisons, they cost too much!' In this era of Great Recession, the conservative and tough-on-crime State of Texas takes an unprecedented...

This is Not a Conspiracy Theory is a documentary about where conspiracy theories come from, what they reveal about all of us, and the real quest to...