Social Documentary Movies

Part of BFI collection "Portrait of a People."

Women share their innermost secrets and intimate experiences inside an Estonian smoke sauna. Cleansing their bodies and baring their souls, they...

After Porn Ends 3 continues to explore whether a career as an adult performer is inherently damaging to the balance of a perfomer's life once retired.

Maria Luiza da Silva is the first transgender in the history of the Brazilian Armed Forces. After 22 years of work in the military, she retired due...

Michael Moore comes home to the issue he's been examining throughout his career: the disastrous impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives...

A young city girl explores the idea of beauty with her uncle Michel, a retired farmer from the Beauce region. An amusing and touching encounter...

With rare access and no holds barred, the acclaimed documentarian investigates a growing ultra-masculine network and its controversial influencers.

The social contract: the rules we follow - and some don’t. Breaking Social uncovers the pattern of corruption and kleptocracy erasing the...

The definitive documentary on the history of nudity in feature films from the early silent days to the present, studying the changes in morality that...

The film profiles eight former members of the Church of Scientology, shining a light on how they attract true believers and the things they do in the...

Since the year 2000, there have been several waves of suicides among the indigenous population of the Colombian Amazon. I discovered that the men...

A family portrait in which the director profiles his grandmother, Odette Robert. Eustache includes in the film the conditions of its production...

Historical leaders of the PSOE, among them several former ministers, lambast the political legacy of Pedro Sánchez, President of the...

The life of Henri Grouès, known as Abbé Pierre, from his time in the Resistance in WWII to his fights against poverty and for the...

A fictional documentary that portrays the city of Dakar, Senegal, as we hear the conversation between a Senegalese man (the director, Djibril Diop...

Journalist Fabian Burstein looks behind the curtains of the porn industry. Starting in Budapest he heads westwards to explore a new world on its...

One night seven years ago, Rafael came home after work and discovered that people he did not know had come looking for him. He immediately fled,...

A documentary on the expletive's origin, why it offends some people so deeply, and what can be gained from its use.

After the impressive Gulistan, Land of Roses (VdR 2016), the Kurdish filmmaker Zaynê Akyol returns with these conversations with imprisoned...