Social Documentary Movies

People from different ethnic backgrounds with "difficult" names by Western standards share their experience with moving through the world with an...

Moullet explores the causes and consequences of cases of mental disorders that were especially numerous in the Southern Alps.

For the past 20 years, the world has seen an alarming decrease in IQ and a rise of autism and behavioral disorders. This international scientific...

Meet the Mormons examines the very diverse lives of six devout Mormons. Filmed on location and across the globe, Meet the Mormons takes viewers on a...

Raising Bertie is a longitudinal documentary feature following three young African American boys over the course of six years as they grow into...

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 group of elders spends their weekdays in a retirement home in Sandim, in the north of Portugal, where they talk, do arts and crafts, practice yoga...

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...

Documentary and reflection about the effects of technology.

Deep Brazil. Between drifting through a city in the interior of Mato Grosso on the banks of the BR-163, we follow moments of the routine of Ana...

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...

In L.A.’s Boyle Heights neighborhood, local activists and members of the art community clash over the fate of a beloved neighborhood.

Ossie Davis, Terry McMillan, Horace Julian Bond, Isaac Hayes, Dionne Warwick and many others share their inspiring stories of success in the first...

The follow-up film to “Barstow, California” takes us to the mountains of Miyama, a remote forest and tourist area north of Kyoto. Uwe...

When an academic unearths a forgotten history, residents of the small township of Pukekohe, including kaumātua who have never told their...

OUTREMONT AND THE HASIDIM reveals the challenges of accommodating the “Hasidim” – or ultra-Orthodox Jews – in the affluent...

An amateur documentary crew dive into a growing opioid epidemic within Australia's Capital only to discover horrifying truths.

Get to know a little bit about Paulo Moreira, sign painter from the metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte - MG, his hand painting techniques and the...