Social Cultural Documentary Movies

A documentary that chronicles the rise and decline of the black-owned ethnic beauty industry in America.

Every year, thousands of German citizens travel to India, hoping to have a spiritual awakening of their own. In turn, they end up taking bits and...

The follow-up film to “Barstow, California” takes us to the mountains of Miyama, a remote forest and tourist area north of Kyoto. Uwe...

They are the secret protagonists of world history: dogs that became famous alongside powerful masters and mistresses. A four-legged friend helps to...

The history of the Teatro Amazonas in Manaus, an opera house located in the middle of the Amazon rainforest, whose construction, between 1884 and...

One of the first works by María Cañas, an excessive metadiscursive exercise on the “pig character” of current information...

Stories of Waitara combines oral histories, state of the art animations and powerful dramatic re-enactments to bring to life the narratives of Te...

Documents the December 26th blizzard in NYC -- from B&W to color and back, everything becomes stuck then free again.

Forget the neon lights and cherry blossoms — this is Japan like you’ve never seen it. In this gripping short documentary, Omar Farooq...

Hormones – without them, nothing would work in our body: the messenger substances control our physical and mental state. New studies show how...

Minah has been working as a female porter at Pasar Gede Hardjonagoro for over fifty years. The film captures her daily routines at the market along...

Marco Paolini interviews Luigi Meneghello about growing up under fascism, his involvement with the Italian resistance movement, his later self-exile,...

People from different ethnic backgrounds with "difficult" names by Western standards share their experience with moving through the world with an...

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...

From the moment we got engaged and set a wedding date, we began thinking about the reasons we chose one another. What was so special about this...