Social Documentary Movies

Björn Lindqvist is the world's best town planner. He isn't changing the world, he's just trying to improve it.

Documentary short about Mexico's femicide crisis.

Examines the implications of Christian Nationalism, how it distorts not only our constitutional republic, but Christianity itself, and asks the...

The definitive documentary on the history of nudity in feature films from the early silent days to the present, studying the changes in morality that...

Exploration of the ordinary lives led by women of different classes—a college professor, an unmarried woman, and a seasoned drama artist. They...

Goutte d'Or district, Paris, Château Rouge metro station, Georges Clemenceau secondary school. Teenagers, burdened with their carelessness and...

We admire beauty; we recoil from bodies that are marred, disfigured, different. Didier Cros’ moving, intimate film forces us to question what...

The trembling starts in his neck when Markus gets closer to the images that have chased him for 49 years. Now he steers his motor home south, as far...

A documentary consisting of a series of travelogue vignettes providing glimpses into cultural practices throughout the world intended to shock or...

A family portrait in which the director profiles his grandmother, Odette Robert. Eustache includes in the film the conditions of its production...

MOLE MAN follows RON, a 66-year-old autistic man who has spent the last five decades building a 50-room structure in his parents' backyard. Using no...

The successes and failures of a couple determined to live in harmony with nature on a farm outside of Los Angeles are lovingly chronicled by...

A fictional documentary that portrays the city of Dakar, Senegal, as we hear the conversation between a Senegalese man (the director, Djibril Diop...

The greatest amphitheatre ever built by the Romans and a monument to blood and brutality. But what were the origins of the Colosseum and the gruesome...

In the spring of 1970, between the African Orestiade and The Decameron, Pasolini shot a film for which he wrote a commentary in verses but never...

A documentary on the expletive's origin, why it offends some people so deeply, and what can be gained from its use.

Caste Aside is a documentary about the British government's controversial decision on whether or not to introduce legislation against caste...

Documentary short about Mexico's femicide crisis.