Social Cultural Documentary Movies

When the immigrants came to America, their cultures entered the "great melting pot." In Michigan's Upper Peninsula Finnish immigrants mixed their...

This movie was released by the U.S. Department of Labor as a way to document those who were involved with the cleanup of New York City after the 9/11...

Dengbêjên Me is a empathetic documentary about the last living representatives of the Kurdish oral storytelling tradition—the...

90's era home videos of a Mexican father starting a new life in the United States

A group of Spanish reporters go to Western Sahara to find a group of Spanish hostages taken by the Polisario Front, while shedding light on the...

In this intimate portrayal of friendship, patience, and transformation, filmmaker Pierce McCleary follows Buffalebrity drag trio She Lives through a...

On January 1, 1994, thousands of indigenous people occupied seven towns in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas under the slogan "Ya Basta!"...

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

An ethnographic film that tells the story of the mask makers and dancers during the festival of the Virgen del Carmen in Paukartambo, Cuzco. The...

“Aguas Negras” is an experimental documentary about the Cuautitlán River. The film examines the passage of time and the pollution...

They open, for them and around them, the path of self-management: that of bodies, territories, communities and struggles.

What is inside the stars? How far away are they from us? Could life exist without them? All these questions have fascinated humanity since the dawn...

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