The Best Human Rights Documentaries

World Affairs & Investigations - 32 free documentaries about human rights.

Start with Genealogist Who Tracks Down Modern-Day Slavery Practices (22 min, VICE), then How the elite police force RAB terrorizes the people of Bangladesh (29 min, DW Documentary). All 32 documentaries here are free to watch from their makers' official uploads. To read deeper, the top-rated book on human rights is Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson.

• Genealogist Who Tracks Down Modern-Day Slavery Practices (22 min, VICE)
• How the elite police force RAB terrorizes the people of Bangladesh (29 min, DW Documentary)
• Why is a 'death squad' from Bangladesh allowed to go on UN missions? (21 min, DW Documentary)
• Unloved and Forgotten - China's Children of Shame (52 min, ENDEVR)
• Indonesia: Diversity under threat (42 min, DW Documentary)
• Iran: The taboo subject of sexual abuse of boys and dealing with trauma (35 min, DW Documentary)
• China's Transplant Crisis: The Forced Organ Harvesting Of The Falun Gong (61 min, Real Stories)
• Is Egypt failing to protect its Coptic Christians? (28 min, DW Documentary)
• Korea's Fake Orphans: How Adoptions To USA & Sweden Tore Families Apart | One "Orphan" Every Hour (92 min, CNA Insider)
• A Nobel Peace Prize winner in prison - Narges Mohammadi's fight for freedom in Iran (29 min, DW Documentary)
• Why Witchcraft is Still Getting Women Killed (21 min, VICE)
• 100 Days, 1 Million Dead: How Rwanda Became the Fastest Genocide in History (56 min, ENDEVR)
• Where women go missing in Canada (50 min, VPRO Documentary)
• White farmers killings in Africa (45 min, VPRO Documentary)
• Thailand’s Muslim Minority Seeks Justice After 20 Years Of Conflict (23 min, CNA Insider)
• The Last Prayer: The Situation of Christians in the Middle East (55 min, ENDEVR)
• The Filipino Purge: World’s Most Feared Drug War (44 min, Free Documentary)
• Chile after Pinochet: The search for the disappeared (28 min, DW Documentary)
• The Roots of Modern Psychological Torture | Mind Control (90 min, ENDEVR)
• Secrets, Politics and Torture (53 min, FRONTLINE PBS)
• How the U.N. & World Failed Darfur Amid "the 21st Century's First Genocide" FRONTLINE (55 min, FRONTLINE PBS)
• Child Soldiers of The Liberian Civil War: Rebuilding Their Future (56 min, Real Stories)
• How the Chocolate Industry Still Profits from Child Labor (56 min, ENDEVR)
• The Myth of the Tortured Artist (11 min, The Art Assignment)
• The Dark World of Forced Labor in Modern Times (106 min, ENDEVR)
• The Truth of the Tortured Artist (9 min, The Art Assignment)
• 13 Years of Torture: What Comes After Guantanamo? (72 min, ENDEVR)
• Bay Of Blood: How The US Backed A Mass Genocide (96 min, Real Stories)
• Scapegoating and the Road to Political Persecution (13 min, Academy of Ideas)
• The Negotiators - How to Make Peace Deals to End Wars and Genocides (86 min, ENDEVR)
• Torture In Syria's Prisons: Why This Journalist Was Targeted by Her Own Government (82 min, Real Stories)
• How can banks be used to stop human trafficking? (29 min, The Economist)

Top-Rated Books About Human Rights

1. Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson (4.3/5) - View on Amazon
2. I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai (4.3/5) - View on Amazon
3. Half the Sky by Nicholas D. Kristof (4.4/5) - View on Amazon
4. The Last Girl by Nadia Murad - View on Amazon