Political Documentary Movies

How does one trigger a revolution? In the Romanian uprising in 1989, everything seemed to happen by itself. The people were fed up and were plagued by...

The political ad "Peace Little Girl" aired during the 1964 presidential campaign ushered in a new era of the television attack ad. The campaign also r...

"Jeunesse Rouge" is a documentary exploring young French Communist revolutionaries fighting for a just and equal society. The film follows their organ...

The First Year tells the inside story of Jamie Driscoll’s first 12 months as the new North of Tyne Mayor.

Stalin’s statue in the garden of a nunnery provokes discussion – plenty of it – in a small Georgian village. Some of the locals used to know Stalin pe...

"Stolen House" is a documentary short film that follows the migration story of Mark, a Russian photographer, and Katya, a Ukrainian artist, to Argenti...

Christian Garcia, a fiercely dedicated Latino political organizer, leads a team of young people mobilizing their community for a soda tax. Tested duri...

The full-length television documentary, using currently found audio-visual records, tells the story of the fabricated political process from November...

In Pakistan, veils hide one of the country's most terrible secrets. Driven by revenge, jealousy or sexual non-co-operation some men subject their wive...

First feature-length documentary to explore in depth a mysterious woman’s influence on George Washington, his vision for America, and its independence...

A group of students aged between 18 to 25 shares their opinion on the first thing they want to change in their country if they get the power to do so.

A city that has been living for two years with the law that prohibits "clandestine parties". A youth who, when reunited, risks receiving a police raid...

The film uncovers the way the governments of Denmark, USA and the UK massaged political and popular opinion in their own countries.

Amany Al-Ali stands out as one of Syria's few female cartoonists, residing in her father's home in Idlib, the last city unconquered by Assad's forces....

A documentary that investigates the complexity of a nation, Albania, through the narration of the convoluted history of its monuments. What happens to...