Social Documentary Movies

French actors Lucien Jean-Baptiste, Aïssa Maïga, Sonia Rolland, Deborah Lukumuena, Marie-France Malonga, Gary Dourdan and others speak up...

A dive into the societal rules and expectations of the celebration of women’s bodies and their use to show love and power. The Disdress Dolls...

'L'ultimo pugno di terra' (The Last Fistful of Land) is a 1966 documentary film directed by Fiorenzo Serra about the anguish and instability of the...

This short film brings light to the reality of transsexuality during childhood and aims to emphasize the importance of the role of grandparents.

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...

Historical leaders of the PSOE, among them several former ministers, lambast the political legacy of Pedro Sánchez, President of the...

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...

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

Part of BFI collection "Portrait of a People."

Every night in December people in a small suburb of Philadelphia flock to a holiday light show. They drive at a snails pace through the 2 mile...

Somi is pregnant with her second child. A girl, she hopes. Together with her husband she prepares for this new phase of their parenthood. It means...

Documentary short about Mexico's femicide crisis.

This Norwegian documentary asks the question if you really can go around without a smartphone and social medias in todays society. The movie follows...

The protests of 1968 had a significant impact on the great cities of the world. But people like to forget that the periphery went through the same...

Jorge Luís Altuve is a young Guatemalan, passionate about mountaineering and a lover of his country. After the COVID-19 crisis and the lack of...

Over the weekend of October 11, 2002, my uncle along with two friends set out on a camping trip in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Upon returning home,...

Hiding in the Walls unwinds the fraught history of lead poisoning in Baltimore and follows the adult survivors who are on a mission to reclaim the...

Ghost nation? Violent home? Traumatised country? What does the horror of one of the most famous writers of our time hide? What does his fictional...

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