Political Documentary Movies

After befriending documentarian Joshua Oppenheimer, former Indonesian death squad leaders reenact their real-life mass killings in the style of...

This documentary accompanies the journey of artists who exalt and celebrate ancestry and the orishas in their work. It also offers a manifesto...

A variety of experts, authors, and reporters discuss the murder of JFK. If one were to select the ten most significant events in American history,...

He's devoted his career to uncovering stories the powerful want buried. From My Lai to Abu Ghraib, dig into the life's work of journalist Seymour...

An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.

An intimate portrait of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov — once Deputy Prime Minister and “an heir of President Yeltsin”,...

Michael Moore's view on how the Bush administration allegedly used the tragic events on 9/11 to push forward its agenda for unjust wars in...

Considered for a few years the “country of the future”, Brazil has seen since 2013 a deep disenchantment between the middle and popular...

Passionate about ocean life, a filmmaker sets out to document the harm that humans do to marine species — and uncovers an alarming global...

A porn-loving, Charles Manson-befriending, Mississippi Republican runs to become the next sheriff.

After the impressive Gulistan, Land of Roses (VdR 2016), the Kurdish filmmaker Zaynê Akyol returns with these conversations with imprisoned...

A Nazi propaganda film made to promote anti-Semitism among the German people. Newly-shot footage of Jewish neighborhoods in recently-conquered Poland...

The whole world envies it; it is the symbol of a united France, a source of national pride, almost an idol! The french Social Security system is...

From PBS: Arizona's enforcement-led policy, which grew out of its unique position as a frontline border state, is reshaping the national conversation...

Character assassination. Political assassination. Legal assassination. An actual assassination attempt. They will try anything to stop Trump. We...

Pierre Carles, the dispenser of justice seen in “Pas vu, pas pris,” is back in the saddle. After attacking French television star...

A documentary on the expletive's origin, why it offends some people so deeply, and what can be gained from its use.