Social Cultural Documentary Movies

Oscar-winning filmmaker Julia Reichert reflects on the social, economic and personal forces that led to her career as a pioneering documentarian.

In 150 years, twice marked by total destruction —a terrible earthquake in 1923 and incendiary bombings in 1945— followed by a spectacular...

Field of Vision and The New Yorker have created a six-part episodic documentary, filmed in 2015, that immerses us in the Syrian refugee crisis....

The film takes a look at the daily lives of people in more than two dozen countries around the world during the course of a week. In the film,...

When Bruce Chatwin was dying of AIDS, his friend Werner Herzog made a final visit. As a parting gift, Chatwin gave him his rucksack. Thirty years...

Amid shifting times, two women kept their decades-long love a secret. But coming out later in life comes with its own set of challenges.

The Specials don’t just write memorable songs - they soundtrack moments in history. This film explores how the band’s music was...

Visionary, radical, spiritual seeker, renowned poet, founding member of a major literary movement, champion of human rights, Buddhist, political...

What if French Rock were born with Edith Piaf? From sweet sixties pop to today's gender-indifferent anthems, from feminist rebels of the seventies...

WORDS FROM HOME is a poetic documentary that explores the kinds of affection and identity in the portuguese language spoken in Brazil. Through...

Director Malakye Tsosie explores his identity through the Navajo language. A language that is spoken less frequently over the generations. However,...

5 people talk about everyday life in a village in Berlin's affluent suburbs during the GDR era.

Prior to 1973, Satan seemed all but dead and gone, the causality of a modernist mindset. But with Linda Blair's disturbing performance in The...

A startling expose of rape crimes on US campuses, their institutional cover-ups, and the devastating toll they take on students and their families....

American filmmaker Julia Loktev, born in the Soviet Union, returned to Moscow in 2021 to make a documentary on the persistence of independent media...

A day in the life of 91.1, Nuxalk Radio, a radio station built to help keep the Nuxalk language alive while broadcasting the laws of the lands and...

In 1986, Dr. Suniti Solomon, a microbiologist, was the first to find HIV positive cases in India. From then on, she dedicated her efforts to the...

These children live in the four corners of the earth, but share the same thirst for learning. They understand that only education will allow them a...

Since the year 2000, there have been several waves of suicides among the indigenous population of the Colombian Amazon. I discovered that the men...