Social Documentary Movies

Part of BFI collection "Portrait of a People."

Filmmaker Hare Brasil follows painter, public speaker and street artist Eduardo Marinho as they hit the road aboard Celestina, a worn-down and faulty...

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

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

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

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

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

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.

A documentary film depicting five intimate portraits of migrants who fled their country of origin to seek refuge in France and find a space of...

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

A documentary consisting of a series of travelogue vignettes providing glimpses into cultural practices throughout the world intended to shock or...

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...

« Emmanuelle » was released 50 years ago. Its main character, played by the young Sylvia Kristel, delve freely into her sexuality,...

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...

We live in a world where the powerful deceive us. We know they lie. They know we know they lie. They do not care. We say we care, but we do nothing,...

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

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

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...

Born in Ukraine in 2008 in the wake of the "Orange Revolution," the feminist movement Femen fights for democracy, freedom of the press, women's...

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...