Social Documentary Movies

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

In 2006, Panama's health system by mistake manufactured and distributed over 200 thousand bottles of common cold medication with a substance called...

From time immemorial, the people of the island used to leave the clothes of their dead to the sea, so that the mother of the sea could turn them into...

This documentary digs into the stories of Indigenous women and families to reclaim their Indian Status through their fight for the elimination of...

Mokhtar Namdar’s documentary ‘A House in Fog’ recounts the story of Soraya, who lives a life of solitude in a mansion in a hilly...

In 2007 Livi, a photography student, moves into an empty building in downtown Haifa. Just before her loneliness urges her to leave, Shahar, Zvi, Iddo...

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

A short documentary following the last 5 hours of a 59-years-old man, Ahmed before becoming homeless due to the late payments and bureaucracy by the...

The documentary tells the story of six friends who fought against compulsory military service in the Basque Country. They were all imprisoned for...

In most aspects of her life, Erin Jones is a normal person. She’s 27 years old, she works a retail job and she lives in Chicago with her three...

Since the enactment of the Anti-Boryokudan Act and Yakuza exclusion ordinances, the number of Yakuza members reduced to less than 60,000. In the past...

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

The saga of fitness, which exploded in the 1980s and contributed, in its own way, to liberating women's bodies.

Shot in various villages throughout Yugoslavia, this is a disturbing document of a time when people were stabbing each other with knives without any...

The film is a journey of the director to find an answer behind the trauma that shook her one fine morning at the age of twelve, when she had her...

Documentary about women without papers, living in Germany and working as maids.

Nestled below the rugged peaks of the Northern Rockies and along the crystal-clear Kootenai River lies the small logging town of Libby, Montana - an...