Social Cultural Documentary Movies

An American elementary school program from the 1970s, Man: A Course of Study (MACOS), looked to the Inuit of the Canadian Arctic to help students see...

A documentary featuring the stories and lived experiences from the Windrush generation in Wales. Through personal narratives, it explores their...

Does Europe also have its own animistic heritage, like Pachamama in South America and Shinto in Japan? If so, which one? In the Misty Lands, i.e....

The Halari Oshwals are a small community dispersed around the world yet held together by a history of sacrifices. But times have changed. This...

A group of Spanish reporters go to Western Sahara to find a group of Spanish hostages taken by the Polisario Front, while shedding light on the...

A retired bricklayer wants his grandson, who lives hundreds of miles away, to stay with him. Will he convince the young man despite the lack of...

As Puerto Rico falls deeper and deeper into an unprecedented crisis this is Vietnam’s story, a community or barrio located on the coast of...

Delving into the world of funk from the outskirts of Belo Horizonte, Na Batida follows a participatory journey in which the filmmakers themselves...

They open, for them and around them, the path of self-management: that of bodies, territories, communities and struggles.

In Search of Hy-Brasil contemplates the textures and rhythms of island life. It brings to the fore the symbiotic relationship that exists...

On January 1, 1994, thousands of indigenous people occupied seven towns in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas under the slogan "Ya Basta!"...

Thinley and Nyima are Tibetans in exile in India. Barely able to make a living, they are now expecting a child. Is there still hope despite all these...

This film follows the lives over one year, shot during three intervals, of two Basque shepherding families who live in Santazi, a village in the...

A short 1994 documentary that highlights the lives and experiences of a few LGBTQ+ residents of the Palouse. Filmed and narrated by Jeff Olson....

In Sanssouci Park in Potsdam, there are many sculptures depicting the gods of Greek and Roman mythology. What do the goddesses of this mythology...

Dengbêjên Me is a empathetic documentary about the last living representatives of the Kurdish oral storytelling tradition—the...

Wheels of Fate is a short documentary film about identity, belonging and acceptance. It reflects on Ryan Espadilla's experience immigrating to New...

Two Paraguayans wander the city collecting testimonies and stories about the meaning of sunsets. Between emotion and routine, their journey becomes a...

While on the surface Malmi Airport seems like just another airport, it is in fact, an incredibly important historical, cultural, and practical...