Social Documentary Movies

At Milan’s Niguarda public hospital, the unconventional Dr. Bini leads a bold mission overseeing aspiring parents undergoing in vitro...

Part of BFI collection "Portrait of a People."

These children live in the four corners of the earth, but share the same thirst for learning. They understand that only education will allow them a...

Rosanna Arquette talks to various actresses about the pressures they face as women working in the entertainment industry.

An account of the last two centuries of the Anthropocene, the Age of Man. How human beings have progressed so much in such a short time through war...

A conflicted gay man struggles to teach his younger self about the challenges of adult life. Searching for answers inside stories from his past, he...

With an off beat sense of humour, the film looks at the politics and glamour of lipstick and the dilemmas of the modern woman in a marketed world.

A film about the close relationship between two brothers. Markus (10) and Lukas (7) live in an old, yellow townhouse in the middle of Oslo. The river...

MOLE MAN follows RON, a 66-year-old autistic man who has spent the last five decades building a 50-room structure in his parents' backyard. Using no...

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,...

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

A documentary film exposing the truth about psychics and fortune-tellers. All the ins and outs of magical TV shows and services of the most famous...

A furious, iconoclastic attack on power and the media in a modern France where Islamophobia has become mainstream and inequality is growing from the...

Today, against a backdrop of sharply increasing demand, growth in the world population and the growing impact of an unsettled climate, water has...

A portrait of a group of youngsters in Agger at the west coast of Jutland. They listen to the raw metalrock. They dress in leather and rivets. And...

The documentary team follows two happiness agents in their forties who spend a month and a half on the road twice a year, going door-to-door with...