Political Documentary Movies

A documentary on Al Gore's campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwide.

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

A cheap, powerful drug emerges during a recession, igniting a moral panic fueled by racism. Explore the complex history of crack in the 1980s.

Filmmakers expose the horrifying mass executions of accused communists in Indonesia and those who are celebrated in their country for perpetrating...

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

An experimental documentary that explores Saudi Arabia's relationship with the U.S. and the role this has played in the war in Afghanistan.

What would American democracy look like in the hands of teenage girls? In this documentary, young female leaders from wildly different backgrounds in...

We live in a world where the powerful deceive us. We know they lie. They know we know they lie. They do not care. We say we care, but we do nothing,...

A portrait of Argentine libertarian politician Javier Milei.

Political commentator Matt Walsh explores the changing concepts of sex and gender in the digital age, particularly the transgender rights movement,...

Thirty years after his film JFK, filmmaker Oliver Stone takes viewers on a journey through recently declassified evidence in the assassination of...

Russian Federation, December 31, 1999. After President Boris Yeltsin's unexpected resignation, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin becomes acting president...

A courageous pastor uses his underground network to rescue and aid North Korean families as they risk their lives to embrace freedom.

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

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

In recognition of the 4th of July, several celebrities and politicians of differing ideologies join to read the historic documents which laid the...

As anger and resentment grow in the face of social inequalities, many citizens-led protests are being repressed with an ever-increasing violence. In...

Under the pretext of fighting terrorism or crime, the major powers have embarked on a dangerous race for surveillance technologies. Facial...

"Here is a family of average French people in front of their television. Elsewhere, they are Palestinian fighters filmed before the massacres of...

The story of the last months of the 20-year war in Afghanistan through the intimate relationship between American Green Berets and the Afghan...