Documentary Films

Genres

Civil rights Documentaries
10

The Defector: Escape from North Korea

This documentary follows Dragon, who makes a living smuggling people fleeing North Korea through the border with China.…
8

The Son Of The Hunter

Luis Quijano, the son of an officer of the Argentine dictatorship of the late 1970s, looks at us on camera and tells us…
8.3

Homeland Gone

In the midst of a severe crisis, Lebanon is the stage of a battle between the people and its political class. This shor…
8

Sisters Of The Trees

Tree planting in Rajasthan, India, has become a symbol of freedom in the middle of the desert. Families in this communi…
9

Cell 364

What could a former prisoner of the Stasi tell us about the state of civil rights in modern democracies? He gives his t…
9

Boundary

Banned in his home country, this documentary by young filmmaker Nontawat Numbenchapol is a crude and experiential gaze …
8

Tahrir 2011

Premiered at the Venice Film Festival, this film documents the popular insurgency that overthrew the Mubarak regime in …
8

You Are Strong

This documentary makes visible the struggle of the Ranqueles, an indigenous community in Argentina who have resisted th…
8

Today And Not Tomorrow

During the dictatorship of Pinochet in Chile, a women's movement took to the streets to protest against the regime for …
8

Backward Run

When thousands of people protest on the streets, television shows something very different. This animated short film is…
9.5

Batrachian's Ballad

This short film, a winner at the Berlinale, is an exuberant scream that literally destroys the image of xenophobia agai…
9

While I Breathe, I Hope

This documentary follows the difficult path of African-American politician Bakari Sellers in his quest to become the fi…