Social Documentary Movies

Every night in December people in a small suburb of Philadelphia flock to a holiday light show. They drive at a snails pace through the 2 mile...

Haida Gwaii, an archipelago off the west coast of Canada, is home to Skil Jaadee and her family. They live in harmony with nature and have made it...

A genre-bending documentary using dance and physicality to explore themes of youthfulness, fear, regret and aging. The star of the show is New York....

Documentary short film that follows a man on his last day at work and his first day as a retiree.

Part of BFI collection "Portrait of a People."

Presents the activities of a young woman on a holiday.

Factory (Super)Women explores the narratives of factory women who paved the way towards Singapore's economic success. Inspired by his mother and...

Two British families discuss the challenges they face raising children who identify as a gender different from the one they were assigned at birth.

A documentary focused on the proliferation of bedbugs in Marseille.

Hiding in the Walls unwinds the fraught history of lead poisoning in Baltimore and follows the adult survivors who are on a mission to reclaim the...

Covering China's powerful leader, his signature foreign policy, U.S.-China trade and technology wars, how Chinese technology helps stifle dissent,...

The Lourenço mine, in northern Amapá, continues to attract people driven by the dream of gold, despite the extreme wear of bodies and...

Documentary Film maker, Mark Brown, attempts to discover the damaging effect the over-spilling immigrant population has on the coastal city of...

A retired bricklayer wants his grandson, who lives hundreds of miles away, to stay with him. Will he convince the young man despite the lack of...

A documentary about the marginalisation of the LGBTQIA+ cultural and artistic scene in Salvador.

#standwithme examines the realities of modern-day slavery, the role we play in it as consumers, and the importance of knowing the story behind what...