Social Cultural Documentary Movies

A Balinese documentary about the traditional art of kite-making.

This film follows the lives over one year, shot during three intervals, of two Basque shepherding families who live in Santazi, a village in the...

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...

In the spring of 1962, members of the Christian Peace Service aid group flew in from Bern, Switzerland and settled in the poorest villages in all of...

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

This is a short documentary about the old City of Buenos Aires and the new one. It’s an observational piece where the old photos of the same...

Six Christians face a dark night of the soul that leads them to question everything they believe.

A short 1994 documentary that highlights the lives and experiences of a few LGBTQ+ residents of the Palouse. Filmed and narrated by Jeff Olson....

Widows is a documentary about the wives of pilots, who have been killed while working on the streets of Guatemala City. Being a van or taxi driver in...

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

"Morada" is an experimental documentary that shows a little about the city of Acari, located in Seridó Potiguar. It has the main participation...

And Now We Rise is a portrait of Samuel Johns, a young Athabaskan hip hop artist, founder of the Forget Me Not Facebook Group for displaced people in...

Delving into the world of funk from the outskirts of Belo Horizonte, Na Batida follows a participatory journey in which the filmmakers themselves...

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

A young woman from Barcelona's La Mina neighborhood inquires into the past of the Roma people in this documentary about the persecution of the Roma...