Social Cultural Documentary Movies

Land is supposed to be the embodiment of permanence, but what happens when it's not? What is life like when the nation you live in has an expiration...

Thinley and Nyima are Tibetans in exile in India. Barely able to make a living, they are now expecting a child. Is there still hope despite all these...

The injustice of the Japanese internment is explored through the story of Kyuichi Nomoto, one of the first Japanese Canadians to graduate from UBC,...

A witness testimonial by the Syrian people with regards to what has happened to their country. It's a story told by those who couldn't leave, those...

Porn has shaped the Internet as we know it. Video streaming, high speed broadband, online payment solutions, banner advertising, smartphone design,...

From time immemorial, the Bretons have fought many battles to safeguard their culture, rich in language, music and dance. However, Brittany was for a...

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

Schools in the Netherlands are challenging the traditional models of education and democracy, taking us to new possibilities of organising ourselves...

An ode to thrift stores, reusing our clothes and local communities.

Short documentary on the ordinary life of the Russians.

Italy, from the '50s to the present day, told through the eyes of generations of children captured in Rai's (Italian public TV) archival footage.

An unsentimental yet compassionate film about building a community to increase a sense of belonging despite living the worst times ever imagined.

Curtain Up! follows elementary school kids in New York’s Chinatown as they prepare for a production and begin to discover themselves. Behind...

A documentary detailing the murder of Stacey Stites of Bastrop, Texas and the subsequent arrest, conviction and death sentence handed down to Rodney...