541 Films about Politics & Social Issues

I WANT TO TELL YOU SOMETHING is an emotional family story of four-year-old Oskar, who has been deaf since birth, and his twin brother Leo whose hearing is perfect

A love story in Kyrgyzstan clouded by migration and modern slavery

THE ARRANGEMENT a documentary by Nathalie Borgers shows the portraits of several young people sharing a similar background- they are all descending from Turkish families but have been growing up in Vienna

Filmmaker Maggie Hadleigh-West walks the streets of the United States interviewing the men who harass her in public

#whilewewatch is the gripping portrait of the #OccupyWallSt media revolution

#whilewewatch is the gripping portrait of the #OccupyWallSt media revolution

#whilewewatch is the gripping portrait of the #OccupyWallSt media revolution

A personal documentary about the political divide between a father and son

#whilewewatch is the gripping portrait of the #OccupyWallSt media revolution

A dispute between a restaurant manager with a dark past and a conservative village mayor over a motorway proposal inspires a would-be filmmaker working as the restaurant pianist

A devout Catholic gay couple seeks to wed in a church and receive the Holy Sacrament of Marriage

When filmmaker Uri Rosenwaks came to Rahat, a town afflicted with pessimism, unemployment, poverty and violence, he taught a group of Black Bedouin women about filmmaking

The shocking and revealing documentation of a homeless boy's life over a two and a half year period

Love. Hate. Forgiveness. Vengeance. Life. Death. There's always a choice.

The true-life story of Harlem's notorious Nicky Barnes, a junkie turned multimillionaire drug lord

A comprehensive look at the Bush Administration's conduct of the Iraq war and its occupation of the country

The youngest foot soldiers for the Lord are shown in their native environment in this documentary

This portrait of Washington super lobbyist Jack Abramoff confirms the adage that truth is indeed stranger than fiction. A tale of international intrigue with Indian casinos, Russian spies, Chinese sweatshops, and a mob-style killing in Miami, this is the story of the way money corrupts our political process

A documentary on perception of the United States's war with Iraq, with an emphasis on Al Jazeera's coverage

With the official repeal of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy in September 2011, actor Marc Wolf’s acclaimed one-man Off-Broadway show comes to the screen

An examination of the life and poetry of the black feminist poet Natasha Ria El-Scari

Enter Greek's world of the radical left -- 30% of the vote in the November 2010 local elections

A one hour documentary and the result of a process of creative collaboration where a group of 14 photojournalists and videographers shot a collective documentation of Greece during the recent economic crisis

The Naked Option reveals the power of an organized group of Nigerian women who use the threat of stripping naked in public, a serious cultural taboo, in their deadly struggle to hold the oil companies accountable to the communities in which they operate

A documentary exploring the world of renowned Death Row prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal

In the turbulence of war, in a place where survival was just short of miraculous, the Aleuts of Alaska would redefine themselves -- and America

Journalist Mark Anthony Rolo (Bad River Ojibwe) journeys to Los Angeles to talk with the survivors and descendants of American Indian families

With over $100 Billion in annual revenues and 70000 employees in Iraq alone, the private military industry is booming, yet few civilians know anything about it. What are we really risking by allowing profit-motivated corporations into the business of war?

HIV: USA is a nationwide creative writing and documentary film project that features participants living with HIV/AIDS

The fight for Kuwaiti women's right to vote, including the amazing sacrifices made during the Iraqi invasion

Four years after Marcellus Shale arrived on the doorstep of Wetzel County, life has changed dramatically

A film that explores the different lives and worlds of two 17-yr-old girls living several miles apart, and the aftermath of the suicide bomb that one triggers, killing them both

The story of a group of Israeli soldiers stationed in an outpost prior to the withdrawal of forces of 2000

The crime that shocked the world and provoked a war of words between Russia and England

In a future San Francisco that is entirely upper-class, the city starts a program to bring working-class families back

Sasha makes a discovery about her genetically engineered unborn child that causes her to rethink her allegiances