Political Documentary Movies

He's devoted his career to uncovering stories the powerful want buried. From My Lai to Abu Ghraib, dig into the life's work of journalist Seymour...

Michael Moore's view on how the Bush administration allegedly used the tragic events on 9/11 to push forward its agenda for unjust wars in...

A Southern Indiana man endures a fatal night of torture after being arrested for a routine traffic stop.

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

In this chilling and groundbreaking documentary, former Indonesian death squad leaders reenact their real-life mass killings in the style of various...

The personal stories lived by the Uncle, the Father and the Son, respectively, form a tragic experience that is drawn along a line in time. This line...

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

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

Examines the implications of Christian Nationalism, how it distorts not only our constitutional republic, but Christianity itself, and asks the...

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

Pierre Carles, the dispenser of justice seen in “Pas vu, pas pris,” is back in the saddle. After attacking French television star...

An intimate portrait of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov — once Deputy Prime Minister and “an heir of President Yeltsin”,...

This documentary goes behind the scenes of the recent 2024 local elections in one particular ward - Dublin's North Inner City. Considered by many to...

Character assassination. Political assassination. Legal assassination. An actual assassination attempt. They will try anything to stop Trump. We...

The whole world envies it; it is the symbol of a united France, a source of national pride, almost an idol! The french Social Security system is...

Much-censored documentary encompassing thirty years of Italian politics under the governance of the Christian Democracy (DC), entirely composed of...

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

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

La Revuelta accounts for the tension experienced by those who, as of October 2019, came out to express their social discontent. The work has as its...