Social Cultural Documentary Movies

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...

If you grew up in Wichita, Joyland was an important part of your childhood. This documentary tells the epic story of the rise and fall of...

The Jehovah’s Witnesses are a religious group with eight million followers in multiple nations, including Australia. A knock on the door and an...

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...

5 people talk about everyday life in a village in Berlin's affluent suburbs during the GDR era.

Three generations of Saudi women reflect on their lives through the decades of dramatic regional cultural, political and religious changes. Ajyal...

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

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

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...

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

The Jewish Historical Society of Fairfield County in Connecticut's documentary featuring family stores in Stamford, Connecticut from their peak years...