Social documentary movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant social documentary movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out social documentary, independent film, captivating, experimental, serious and sincere films and TV shows about / with female protagonist, husband wife relationship, politics, psychological manipulation, friendship, roman emperor, female nudity, ancient rome, freedom and family relations plots mostly in Drama, History and Comedy genres shot in USA, Italy, France and other countries.
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TOP 8 movies tagged as social documentary: New Eden (2020), Chhattisgarh Sketches (2004), La tragedia de Macario (2005), Struggles in Italy (1971), Caesar Must Die (2012), Domina (2021), The Leather Boys (1964), Whore 2 (1994).
List of social documentary movies
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
TV show
Story:
Former cult leaders turned convicts, Katherine Wryfield and Grace Lee are interviewed about New Eden for the first time in a decade by two unseen documentarians. Using archival footage, interviews, and news clips, they begin to take us through the ...
Style:
mockumentary, satirical, social documentary, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
satire, feminist, social problems, culture, women, lifestyle, female protagonist, social issues, ambitious woman, found footage, interview, religious fanaticism ...
Place:
canada, british columbia
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Country: India, USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
A digital diary reflecting Jon Jost's experiences in India in 2003, when he was teaching filmmaking with digital cameras there. The material in this impressionistic film is adapted to the Indian way of life, with the cheerfulness of vibrant ...
Style:
experimental, reflective, independent film, social documentary, slow cinema
Plot:
diary, village life, filmmaking, travelogue, humanist, intimate, poverty, minimalism, vignette
Place:
india, poetic realism
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
Film from Pablo Veliz
Style:
dark, tense, bleak, atmospheric, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
border crossing, immigration, human trafficking, tragedy, illegal immigration, desperation, survival, exploitation, social injustice, border patrol, claustrophobia, solidarity ...
Place:
texas, mexico
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: France
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
The life of Henri Grouès, known as Abbé Pierre, from his time in the Resistance in WWII to his fights against poverty and for the homeless.
Style:
period piece, psychological, thrilling, captivating, social documentary
Plot:
world war, life, freedom, homelessness, world war two, abbey, storytelling, problem, famous people, kindness, human rights, humanitarian ...
Time:
year 1949, 20th century, 1940s
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 62 min.
Story:
The film reveals how and why a supposedly revolutionary Italian girl has in fact fallen prey to bourgeois ideology.
Style:
melancholic, period piece, political, social documentary, experimental ...
Plot:
female protagonist, class struggle, gender roles, identity crisis, alienation, moral ambiguity, character study, city life, bittersweet, coming of age, political intrigue, girl ...
Place:
italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Winner of the Golden Bear at the 2012 Berlin Film Festival, Caesar Must Die (Cesare Deve Morire), the scripted documentary shows inmates at a prison in Rome rehearsing for a performance of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, talky, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
prison, prison life, hopes, shakespeare, human spirit, actor's life, audition, introspection, confined, criminal heroes, rehearsal, convict ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
italy, rome italy
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Domina follows Livia’s journey from a naïve young girl whose world crumbles in the wake of Julius Caesar’s assassination, to Rome’s most powerful and influential Empress, driven by a deep desire to avenge her father and secure power for her ...
Style:
historical drama, costume drama, social documentary, period drama
Plot:
palace intrigue, roman empire, ancient rome, ancient, historical figure, high society, female nudity, wife, sexual abuse, historical character, affair, roman emperor ...
Time:
ancient times
Place:
rome italy
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The Leather Boys is a 1964 British drama film about the rocker subculture in London featuring a gay motorcyclist. This film is notable as an early example of a film that violated the Hollywood production code, yet was still shown in the United ...
Style:
grindhouse, road movie, controversial, contemplative, serious ...
Plot:
motorcycle, biker, gay, homoerotic friendship, friendship between men, kitchen sink realism, lgbt, gay interest, newlywed, male friendship, teenage boy, teenager ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
london, europe, england, edinburgh scotland
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258
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Jack sets himself up in the Hotel St James to work on his book on prostitution in New York. Along the way he meets and grows fond of Mary Lou.
Style:
semi documentary, social documentary, independent film, fake documentary
Plot:
murder of a prostitute, sex shop, street walker, dead prostitute, prostitution, hooker, sex for money, degradation, pole dancer, strip club, infidelity, writers ...
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