Social Cultural Documentary Movies

Clarissa Dickson Wright tracks down Britain's oldest known cookbook, The Forme of Cury. This 700-year-old scroll was written during the reign of King...

The National Truth Commission, installed in 2011 to investigate crimes committed during a military dictatorship, brought to the public a still very ob...

In the most dangerous country in the world for journalists, Newsweek Middle East editor, Janine di Giovanni, risks it all to bear witness, ensuring th...

A feature length, lively - montage style - documentary, capturing the essence of what life was like in socialist Hungary - dubbed the "The most cheerf...

El Pantera is a documentary film that chronicles the rise of Mexican UFC star Yair Rodriguez as he strives to become the first ever Mexican born UFC c...

Leah and Purity are rangers in the Kenyan bushland. They roam around Amboseli National Park every day to track down wildlife. The Maasai shepherds als...

Documentary directed by W.K. Border, that which dives into the aspects of contemporary Gothic subculture, vampirism, and BDSM culture. Filmed in 1997...

Focusing on five of them, this documentary pays tribute to the wealthy women who, under the Ancien Régime, promoted scholars and artists, and paved th...

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...

Golek Garwo is a matchmaking forum, held monthly vis-a-vis in Yogyakarta. Basri (62),a worker who longed for love and one out of hundreds of particip...

Marco Paolini interviews Mario Rigoni Stern about—among other things—his well-known experience as a soldier on the Eastern front during WWII, culminat...

Documentary on death with participation of philosophers, scientists and artists. Guest star, alexis karpouzos.

A new wave of Asian horror movie filmmakers is capturing the attention of film studios desperate for box office success. From Tokyo to Hong Kong and B...

An exploration on Paz's poetry by Paz himself, his childhood, his ideas about love and the nature of art

Deep Brazil. Between drifting through a city in the interior of Mato Grosso on the banks of the BR-163, we follow moments of the routine of Ana Rúbia,...

During Summer 2000, the mayor of the Greek island of Lesbos tried to ban 26 lesbians from arriving on a package holiday from the UK; but he ended up b...

People from different ethnic backgrounds with "difficult" names by Western standards share their experience with moving through the world with an iden...

An in depth look into the Covid 19 narrative, who’s controlling it and how it’s being used to inject an untested, new technology, into almost every pe...

A young woman crosses a confined provincial town and its outskirts. Once at her destination, a strange mourning protocol awaits her.