Social Issues Movies

This documentary delves deeper into the racism issue addressing many discriminatory practices in Peru, researching their origins and their hurtful con...

Francis has been living in his apartment for several years. However, his world quickly falls apart has he learns that he has five minutes to leave his...

A 1973 documentary film from the Central Office of Information about the Liverpool and Bootle Constabulary.

Aliko & Ambai is a feature film about two young women facing the challenges of growing up in the beautiful Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea. The...

The final case for American healthcare to be free and accessible to all—through a single-payer system. Using an all-star lineup of heavy-hitters in t...

After 11 strangers unite to help a gay youth escape life-threatening violence in Uganda, the unexpected pandemic and conflicting opinions over his bes...

Kazuma kills his father in order to protect his mother and younger sister from violence. He begins life at a halfway house with an aim toward social r...

This documentary follows a community action group led by American community organizer and writer Saul Alinsky in Rochester, New York. Together, they c...

Using local media footage from the London Borough of Southwark spanning the past 20 years, this documentary discusses complex social issues including...

An old lady lets herself go with the stories of a sprightly old man, sitting next to her. But when she reveals that she is married, he waves her confu...

What if you got the chance to build a new society from scratch, what would it look like? Located more than 200 km above the polar circle, the Swedish...

Eri as a child hides her pain with a determined smile. This leads to an unprecedented change, turning her into a doll. After landing a singing contrac...

The Lucky Specials are a cover band in a dusty town in southern Africa. Mandla is a miner by day and plays lead guitar for The Lucky Specials by night...

Ziba and three of her prison cohorts, recently released from a Tehran prison, settle in an out of town doctor's house posing as house sitters and emba...

Author and cook David Groß travels through five European countries and cooks exclusively what others throw in the garbage bin. With great thirst for k...

By observing the technological developments of artificial intelligence in several countries, this film sheds light on the advantages and limits of alg...

A young islamic woman who wants to expose the truth about the government's injustice in a patriarchal society.

Social experiment hosted by journalist and presenter Ben Zand in which a group of people come together to try to understand what constitutes sexual ha...

This short documentary film is a fascinating portrait of urban and rural Quebec in the late 1960s, as the province entered modernity. The collective w...