The Best Refugees & Migration Documentaries

World Affairs & Investigations - 143 free documentaries about refugees & migration.

Start with Get To US Border Or Die Trying: Chinese Migrants Inch Toward American Dream (46 min, CNA Insider), then Inside the Illegal 'Dunki' Route Migrants Take From India To The US (47 min, CNA Insider). All 143 documentaries here are free to watch from their makers' official uploads. To read deeper, the top-rated book on refugees & migration is Enrique's Journey by Sonia Nazario.

• Get To US Border Or Die Trying: Chinese Migrants Inch Toward American Dream | Part 2 - Walk The Line (46 min, CNA Insider)
• Inside the Illegal 'Dunki' Route Migrants Take From India To The US | Undercover Asia (47 min, CNA Insider)
• Gangsters in Paradise - The Deportees of Tonga (24 min, VICE)
• I Make $60K a Month Smuggling Californian Weed into New York | WEEDIQUETTE (23 min, VICE)
• How Trump’s Deportation Campaign Is Reshaping Small Town America (21 min, Bloomberg Originals)
• Trafficked in America (53 min, FRONTLINE PBS)
• Anonymous Bodies at America’s Deadliest Border Crossing | Overlooked (18 min, VICE)
• How 2nd-Gen Vietnamese Are Settling Into Czech Republic With New Careers | The New Locals - Part 5/8 (23 min, CNA Insider)
• Latino Conservatives Debate Liberals on the Wall, Amnesty, and Political Polarization (Part 2/2) (24 min, VICE)
• Fleeing climate change — the real environmental disaster (42 min, DW Documentary)
• The Right-Wing Latinos of Miami: Proud Boys and Refugees (28 min, VICE)
• Why We Left China With Our 13-year-old, And Risked Our Lives To Get To The US Illegally (20 min, CNA Insider)
• Can These Chinese Asylum Seekers Reach Their 'American Dream'? | Part 3/3 - Walk The Line (47 min, CNA Insider)
• The deadly route to Europe: Exploited by smugglers, human traffickers and warlords (28 min, DW Documentary)
• World's Busiest Land Crossing: Inside Singapore Woodlands Checkpoint - Part 1/2 (46 min, CNA Insider)
• Behind The Scenes Of 'Walk The Line': The Team Who Filmed Chinese Asylum Seekers' Journey To US (46 min, CNA Insider)
• Living in the Largest Refugee Camp in Iraq | The Insider: Reggie Yates (50 min, Free Documentary)
• Immigration Under President Trump’s First Term | Kids Caught in the Crackdown (26 min, FRONTLINE PBS)
• Deported From the US for Selling Weed to a Friend | WEEDIQUETTE (24 min, VICE)
• Undocumented Immigration: ICE'S Most Dangerous Arrests (48 min, Wonder)
• ICE Police: American Border Controls and Deportation Flights (48 min, Wonder)
• They Risked Everything To Reach America — What Happened Next | Walk The Line: ICE Nation - Part 1/2 (46 min, CNA Insider)
• Exporting Care: How Philippines And India Supply The World’s Nurses (23 min, CNA Insider)
• How Japanese Migrants Are Building New Lives In Bangkok | The New Locals - Part 8/8 (23 min, CNA Insider)
• The tough training of border guards on the Norwegian-Russian border (26 min, DW Documentary)
• Fleeing war in Gaza - for a new life in Egypt? (28 min, DW Documentary)
• Migrant Crisis: The Deadly Journey from El - Salvador to the USA | The Dreamers (56 min, ENDEVR)
• The Most Traveled Migration Route on Earth (87 min, ENDEVR)
• World's Toughest Border Patrol | Beyond Borders: USA (48 min, Free Documentary)
• Murder at America's Border: The Story of an Anti-Immigration Vigilante (42 min, VICE)
• European migration? How a continent is sealing itself off (45 min, DW Documentary)
• From Syrian refugee to mayor in Germany - Ryyan Alshebl’s inspirational journey (42 min, DW Documentary)
• From an African refugee camp to the US (42 min, DW Documentary)
• Largest Toxic Waste Dump, Jails and Refugee Camp | The Insider: Reggie Yates (209 min, Free Documentary)
• Targeting El Paso (53 min, FRONTLINE PBS)
• Tibetan Refugees: The Hardest Fight For Justice After 70 Years Of Exile (60 min, Real Stories)
• Why Tibetans Risk Their Lives to Flee China’s Rule (51 min, Real Stories)
• When To Call It Quits? Migrants Face Life In Limbo In The US | Walk The Line: ICE Nation - Part 2/2 (47 min, CNA Insider)
• HIV Crisis on the Texas-Mexico Border (25 min, VICE)
• How to Illegally Cross the Mexico-US Border (15 min, Wendover Productions)
• Europe’s deadly migration policy (52 min, DW Documentary)
• Torture, Death & Slavery: Inside the Deadly Migrant Journey To Europe (59 min, ENDEVR)
• The Shady Business of Trafficking Desperate Refugees | Lethal Cargo (56 min, ENDEVR)
• Separated: Children at the Border (53 min, FRONTLINE PBS)
• Our Home In The Desert: Life Inside A Refugee Camp (59 min, Real Stories)
• ICE Police In Action: U.S. Border Security (48 min, Wonder)
• Beyond BTS And K-Pop Gloss: Migrant Workers' Reality Living In South Korea | Insight (45 min, CNA Insider)
• Climate change and displacement - How people are being forced to flee their homes (52 min, DW Documentary)
• Displaced on Java - A village battling rising sea levels (52 min, DW Documentary)
• World's Toughest Borders | Philippines: Tawi-Tawi Danger Zone (44 min, Free Documentary)
• For Migrant Women Farmworkers, Abuse Often Comes with the Job (53 min, FRONTLINE PBS)
• Crisis Inside the Border's Largest Refugee Tent City (25 min, VICE)
• Ripped from the Family and Deported to Cambodia | Get Real Series (45 min, ENDEVR)
• Border Megacity: The World’s Busiest Land Crossing (89 min, Free Documentary)
• 7 Days in a Refugee Camp | Reggie Yates: The Insider (51 min, Real Stories)
• Crossing Borders: The Human Impact of the Wall (US/Mexico) (49 min, Real Stories)
• Germany’s skilled labor shortage - Helping migrants find work (28 min, DW Documentary)
• Deportations in Germany - A complex system (28 min, DW Documentary)
• How a Mexican Migrant Farmer’s Journey to the U.S. Turned Fatal (19 min, FRONTLINE PBS)
• Angry Woman Refused Entry by Airport Security | Border Force (43 min, Wonder)
• Operation Border Force: Customs Bust Drug Smugglers And Hidden Stowaways (44 min, Wonder)
• What Should Malaysia Do with Over 120,000 Rohingya Refugees? | Insight (46 min, CNA Insider)
• Terrifying Places: Deserted Asylum, Doctor's House & More | Lost Places (55 min, Free Documentary)
• Exodus (113 min, FRONTLINE PBS)
• Whose Migrant Mother was this? (11 min, The Art Assignment)
• Inside ICE: A Day In The Life Of U.S. Immigration Enforcement (47 min, Wonder)
• Ai Weiwei drifting - art, awareness and the refugee crisis (42 min, DW Documentary)
• Panama on the Brink: South America's biggest Refugee Crisis! (54 min, ENDEVR)
• DEPORTED to MEXICO: Last Stop Call Center Agent? | On the Line (54 min, ENDEVR)
• Exiled in the Desert: The Forgotten Suffering of the Sahrawis (24 min, ENDEVR)
• Inside Illegal Crossings: Life-Threatening Journey Across The US/Mexico Border (87 min, Real Stories)
• The Race to Expand Monaco’s Borders (12 min, The B1M)
• Hotel hope - Where refugees begin a new life (43 min, DW Documentary)
• The Secrets of Mauritania: Immigration and the Battle Against Slavery | Sahara (50 min, ENDEVR)
• World's Toughest Border Patrol: Deportation After Over 20 Years & Sex Offender (48 min, Free Documentary)
• America's First Climate Change Refugees (25 min, Real Stories)
• Border Turkey-Greece: The river of death (53 min, VPRO Documentary)
• Who Owns The Land And Sea? Border Disputes Across Asia And Beyond (23 min, CNA Insider)
• On the smugglers’ trail - Making billions from tiny eels (90 min, DW Documentary)
• Churches as safe havens: How communities protect refugees from deportation (27 min, DW Documentary)

Top-Rated Books About Refugees & Migration

1. Enrique's Journey by Sonia Nazario (4.2/5) - View on Amazon
2. The Displaced by Viet Thanh Nguyen - View on Amazon