Social Cultural Documentary Movies

A cheap, powerful drug emerges during a recession, igniting a moral panic fueled by racism. Explore the complex history of crack in the 1980s.

An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people...

When indie comic character Pepe the Frog becomes an unwitting icon of hate, his creator, artist Matt Furie, fights to bring Pepe back from the...

The passion the original Star Wars trilogy inspires in its fans is unparalleled; but when it comes to George Lucas himself, many have found their...

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...

Passionate about ocean life, a filmmaker sets out to document the harm that humans do to marine species — and uncovers an alarming global...

A startling expose of rape crimes on US campuses, their institutional cover-ups, and the devastating toll they take on students and their families....

Amid shifting times, two women kept their decades-long love a secret. But coming out later in life comes with its own set of challenges.

Between scenes from his concert in São Paulo's oft-inaccessible Theatro Municipal, rapper and activist Emicida celebrates the rich legacy of...

After the 1999 premiere of the first Matrix movie, it became a pop culture phenomenon. A special documentary about the Matrix saga and its prophetic...

The definitive documentary on the history of nudity in feature films from the early silent days to the present, studying the changes in morality that...

In a cluttered news landscape dominated by men, emerges India’s only newspaper run by Dalit women. Armed with smartphones, Chief Reporter Meera...

In 1977, a book of photographs captured an awakening - women shedding the cultural restrictions of their childhoods and embracing their full...

We live in a world where the powerful deceive us. We know they lie. They know we know they lie. They do not care. We say we care, but we do nothing,...

Through key testimonies, this documentary looks at a gang rape that took place during the 2016 San Fermín festival and sparked protests...

From Rickrolling to viral conspiracy theories, explore how an anonymous website evolved into a hub for real-world chaos in this documentary.

These children live in the four corners of the earth, but share the same thirst for learning. They understand that only education will allow them a...

Using testimonies by pioneers and witnesses of the times, delve into the feverish visual culture the media generated – with far-fetched...

The film reveals how and why a supposedly revolutionary Italian girl has in fact fallen prey to bourgeois ideology.

This call to arms documentary details the questionable ethics of the food supply industry, pointing out the power of huge supermarket chains to...