Social Issues Movies

A documentary view of an encampment of homeless people on the outskirts of Nashville, Tennessee in the Southern United States.

Sometimes, the truth is overridden by self-interest.

Zanskar is a remote kingdom in the northwest Indian Himalaya, where local people are snow-bound for six months of the year. About 10,000 Zanskaris...

A documentary that explores the rise of homeless encampments in the Twin Cities throughout the last 5 years, and how the state is dealing with this...

A thought provoking short film on Indian farmers told through clay sculptures made from barren farms of the farmers who have committed suicide.

In battle-ridden Syria, a woman trying to smuggle bread into a blockaded area crosses paths with a soldier on the run.

In this era, robotic peo- ple making humanized machine, is it a hopeless tragedy, or the beginning of a brave new world?

This short documentary film is a fascinating portrait of urban and rural Quebec in the late 1960s, as the province entered modernity. The collective...

On April 14, 2014, the sleepy agrarian town of Chibok, in the North East zone of Nigeria, was thrust into the global spotlight when the terrorist...

Gu Bo is a beloved father and husband, but also a writer who struggles to be true to his sexual identity.

This short documentary illustrates rural French Canadian life in the early 1940s. The film follows Alexis Tremblay and his family through the busy...

A night in the life of a young adult celebrating her birthday with friends. Amidst the celebration, she encounters uncanny happenings and grows...

The story is set in a Maharashtrian village where the rich act in a barbaric manner towards the poor.

By giving non-traditional answers, Pi Pi Lu is seen as a disruptive student by his teacher, Ms. Xu. In her view, only tamed students could be good...

Golek Garwo is a matchmaking forum, held monthly vis-a-vis in Yogyakarta. Basri (62), a worker who longed for love and one out of hundreds of...

Earl Kenneth Kaufmann is the Scary Guy. Banned and kicked out here and there. Because of his looks. A motivation trainer and speaker who campaigns...

Social experiment hosted by journalist and presenter Ben Zand in which a group of people come together to try to understand what constitutes sexual...

Community First! Village is designed to lift the chronically homeless off the streets of the Austin, TX, offering them a place to call home, helping...