Social Documentary Movies

After losing his job during lockdown, Natan signs up to a microtask website. Having become a “Turker” alongside tens of thousands of...

Montreal — one of the few remaining affordable cities in North America — is now in the midst of an unprecedented housing crisis. An...

A rock documentary, about the Mexican band Molotov, that focuses more in the political and musical context of Mexico rather than in the actual story...

Film directors with hand-held cameras went to the streets of Lisbon from April 25 to May 1, 1974, registering interviews and political events of the...

"McCarthy" chronicles the rise and fall of Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin senator who came to power after a stunning victory in an election no one...

A documentary that uncovers the rich, global history of vegetarianism—from ancient Indian Jains and Roman philosophers to Victorian activists...

In Bogotá, urban public transport drivers do not receive a fixed salary. This has triggered a daily war marked by an anguishing and dangerous...

Hundreds of thousands − perhaps even millions − of protestors have taken to the streets of Hong Kong since early June. Sparked initially...

Ten years after an enormous open-pit gold mine began operations in Malartic, the hoped-for economic miracle is nothing more than a mirage. Filmmaker...

Marzena Sowa is a quintessential contemporary European: independent, aware of how the world works—or should work—and single. After her...

Suicide is one of the world's leading causes of death, with almost 800,000 people taking their own lives every year, not counting those who go...

America has questions about today's youth, what we care about, and where we're headed. We had those questions too. So, after graduating college, four...

Visual artist Daniela Torres creates colorful ceramic dick sculptures inspired by the men who have been dicks to her. In this intimate artist...

A documentary film exposing the truth about psychics and fortune-tellers. All the ins and outs of magical TV shows and services of the most famous...

Compulsive Twitterer, Elon Musk bought himself his favorite social network in 2022, and brutally shaped it according to his desires. This punchy...