Social Documentary Movies

Journalist Fabian Burstein looks behind the curtains of the porn industry. Starting in Budapest he heads westwards to explore a new world on its...

Filmmaker Hare Brasil follows painter, public speaker and street artist Eduardo Marinho as they hit the road aboard Celestina, a worn-down and faulty...

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

Teacher Wang works as a 'mistress dispeller' in China, hired to break up affairs by any means necessary. Through one of her cases, we explore the...

With rare access and no holds barred, the acclaimed documentarian investigates a growing ultra-masculine network and its controversial influencers.

Women share their innermost secrets and intimate experiences inside an Estonian smoke sauna. Cleansing their bodies and baring their souls, they...

With his ultra-conservative policies, US President Donald Trump is disrupting the global order as well as US institutions and society. Filmed less...

A series of interviews featuring linguist, philosopher and activist Noam Chomsky done in hand-drawn animation.

GREAT NORTH: A RUN. A RIVER. A REGION is a documentary film about the Great North Run, a half marathon from Newcastle to South Shields.

Inmates at a prison in Rome rehearse for a performance of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.

The film retraces the events of the Reggio Calabria revolt and reconstructs, with images of the protagonists and places, the atmosphere of those...

Michael Moore comes home to the issue he's been examining throughout his career: the disastrous impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives...

At Milan’s Niguarda public hospital, the unconventional Dr. Bini leads a bold mission overseeing aspiring parents undergoing in vitro...

After Porn Ends 3 continues to explore whether a career as an adult performer is inherently damaging to the balance of a perfomer's life once retired.

Part of BFI collection "Portrait of a People."

A short retrospective documentary on the struggles of eating disorder.

This film is part of a project that has listened to over 40,000 people on masculinity issues and has resulted in a documentary and a tool book based...

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...

When a feminist filmmaker sets out to document the mysterious and polarizing world of the Men’s Rights Movement, she begins to question her own...

The film profiles eight former members of the Church of Scientology, shining a light on how they attract true believers and the things they do in the...