Social Cultural Documentary Movies

A girl wonders about love. About the soul of the world. Is there such a thing? A common code? A shared thread? She thinks about the ways we...

Spearhead of Parma culture, Isa Guastalla (1933-2023) talks about herself, before her sudden death, in a series of interviews that today reveal...

An unsentimental yet compassionate film about building a community to increase a sense of belonging despite living the worst times ever imagined.

The injustice of the Japanese internment is explored through the story of Kyuichi Nomoto, one of the first Japanese Canadians to graduate from UBC,...

An ode to thrift stores, reusing our clothes and local communities.

National Center for Lesbian Rights, winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2009 Community Leadership Awards (the John R. May Award), for its...

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

The community of Woodberry Down in Hackney rallies to save a beloved local plane tree from development.

A young entrepreneur meets a group of coffee farmers and finds the inspiration to continue despite the pandemic.

Following the historically smoggy Polish winter of 2016/2017, a Warsaw father of an asthmatic son searches for answers about why air pollution...

Students graduating from Haynes Academy reflect on their memories together and the uncertainty of their futures.

As their population dwindles, their businesses are all about gone, this town in rural Monterey, Indiana fights to stay alive. An in-depth look into...

A documentary on transidentity, accessible to all, with 10 trans people (including one of the directors) participating.

In some of Cleveland, Ohio’s most dangerous neighborhoods, a unique subculture uses the powerful expression of Krump dance to combat trauma....