Society & Culture Documentaries

How we live, love, argue, believe and belong.

• Class, Poverty & Inequality
• Race, Gender & Identity
• Family & Relationships

Topics

• Homelessness documentaries
• Inequality & the Poor documentaries
• Megacities & Slums documentaries
• Race & Racism documentaries
• LGBTQ+ Lives documentaries
• Disability & Difference documentaries
• Love, Dating & Marriage documentaries
• Parenting & Childhood documentaries
• Twins, Siblings & Family Secrets documentaries
• Ageing & Death documentaries

• Andrew Callaghan: Documenting America's Underbelly (23 min, VICE)
• Straight Pride Parade: Marching for the "Oppressed Majority" (19 min, VICE)
• 'Be A Man': Modernists and Traditionalists Debate Masculinity (43 min, VICE)
• Conservatives and Progressives Debate Feminism (Extended Version) (44 min, VICE)
• Covering Up Racist Tattoos: Erasing the Hate (18 min, VICE)
• Being a White Student at a Historically Black College (25 min, VICE)
• Teen Surprises Former Helper In Indonesia: "I Miss You So Much" | On The Red Dot - Finding Auntie (23 min, CNA Insider)
• The Dangerous Rise of Andrew Tate (46 min, VICE)
• White Slums of South Africa (49 min, Real Stories)
• The Dark Predatory Side of Japan (50 min, Real Stories)
• America's Poor Kids (59 min, Real Stories)
• Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person (22 min, The School of Life)
• Asian Americans Debate Model Minority & Asian Hate (44 min, VICE)
• I Flew To Philippines To Surprise My Former Helper After 26 Years! | On The Red Dot - Finding Auntie (23 min, CNA Insider)
• No Sleep, 2 Jobs: Can Young South Koreans Escape Hell Joseon Rat Race? | Asia’s Stuck Generation (26 min, CNA Insider)
• Born Poor (83 min, FRONTLINE PBS)
• Girls Just Wanna Have Fun! Five Days Without Parents (49 min, Real Stories)
• How to Slow Aging (and even reverse it) (21 min, Veritasium)
• I Flew To Philippines To Surprise My Former Helper Of 15 Years | On The Red Dot | Finding Auntie (23 min, CNA Insider)
• I Packed Myself In A Box To Surprise My Former Domestic Helper | On The Red Dot - Finding Auntie (23 min, CNA Insider)
• The Working Poor | The Price of the American Dream (52 min, ENDEVR)
• Poverty in the USA: Being Poor in the World's Richest Country (52 min, ENDEVR)
• Minorities Debate Colorism, Skin Bleaching and Appropriation (43 min, VICE)
• LGBTQ+ Community Debates the Meaning of "Queer", Military Bans, & More (Part 1/2) (23 min, VICE)
• No-Go Zones - World’s Toughest Places | Seven Mile Road, Detroit, USA (48 min, Free Documentary)
• Louis Theroux: Inside America's Largest Dementia Capital (59 min, Real Stories)
• Elite Nannies For The Rich and Famous (46 min, Real Stories)
• Transgender Pakistanis: The Open Secret (53 min, Real Stories)
• Boys Alone (49 min, Real Stories)
• Charlottesville: Race and Terror – VICE News Tonight on HBO (22 min, VICE)
• Slum Princess: India's Teen Supermodel Who Was Discovered In Mumbai Slums | Limitless (47 min, CNA Insider)
• Japan's Young Are Now Its Loneliest Generation, Overtaking The Old. Why? | Insight (47 min, CNA Insider)
• Children, no thanks! Why women don’t want kids (26 min, DW Documentary)
• Brides for sale - Bulgaria's Roma marriage market (26 min, DW Documentary)
• Poor Kids (53 min, FRONTLINE PBS)
• SOUTH KOREA IS OVER (15 min, Kurzgesagt)
• Louis Theroux Meets Terminally Ill Patients That Are Choosing Death (64 min, Real Stories)
• Fabulous Fashionistas: The Art Of Growing Old (48 min, Real Stories)
• Britain's Anti-Feminist Men | Reggie Yates Extreme (45 min, Real Stories)
• SHELTER (81 min, VICE)
• Anand Giridharadas on 'Winners Take All' and the charade of elite philanthropy (32 min, VPRO Documentary)
• American Coup: Wilmington 1898 (113 min, American Experience)
• Life As A Korean In Chennai: Dosa, Tamil & Finding Home | The New Locals (23 min, CNA Insider)
• New York City rich and poor - The inequality crisis (42 min, DW Documentary)
• Inequality – how wealth becomes power (1/3) (42 min, DW Documentary)
• The New Black Elite: Super-Rich African-Americans (50 min, ENDEVR)
• Half Homeless: Living in Cars | Poverty in the USA (54 min, ENDEVR)
• Ku Klux Klan - An American History: Part 1 (55 min, Free Documentary - History)
• Aging in the U.S. (55 min, FRONTLINE PBS)
• Russia's Brutal Teen Model Factory | Reggie Yates Extreme (57 min, Real Stories)
• Darwin, California: Life In A Lawless Town (86 min, Real Stories)
• Chicago at the Crossroad (60 min, Real Stories)
• Being Barack Obama's brother: George Obama in the slums | VPRO Documentary | 2013 (44 min, VPRO Documentary)
• STDs And Affairs: What Marriage Was Really Like In The 1900s | Love and Marriage (59 min, Absolute History)
• How Did The Philippines Become One Of Asia's Most Unequal Countries? | Insight (46 min, CNA Insider)
• After 8 Months, Will Shermin Find The Boyfriend She's Been Looking For? - Part 2/2 | Shermin’s March (47 min, CNA Insider)
• China’s Slacker Youths: Why They Went From 'Lying Flat' To 'Let It Rot' | Insight (46 min, CNA Insider)
• Once poor, always poor? (28 min, DW Documentary)
• Varanasi - Facing death without fear (42 min, DW Documentary)
• The chasm between rich and poor - Homeless in the wealthy West (42 min, DW Documentary)